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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation for K–2 from 2023 and 3–10 from 2024
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Early Stage 1

Phonic knowledge
Single-letter graphemes
  • Match a single-letter grapheme with a phoneme

  • Say the most common phoneme for single-letter graphemes (graphs)

  • Blend single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences to decode VC and CVC words, and apply this knowledge when reading, including decodable texts

  • Segment and encode single-letter VC and CVC words, and apply this knowledge when writing words and creating texts

  • Blend common single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences to read CCVC and CVCC words, and apply this when reading texts, including decodable texts

  • Segment common, single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences to encode CCVC and CVCC words

Digraphs
  • Decode and blend words containing consonant digraphs and apply this when reading texts, including decodable texts

  • Segment and encode CVC words containing consonant digraphs

  • Decode words containing split digraphs and vowel digraphs

  • Experiment with encoding high-frequency words containing split digraphs and vowel digraphs

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