WAPELAP3

Recognise and name all upper- and lower‑case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents

WAPELAP3

For example:

  • exploring phoneme–grapheme correspondences discovered in meaningful contexts, such as shared reading or in environmental print
  • identifying and recalling phoneme–grapheme correspondences, such as
    • common initial sounds (phonemes)
    • common consonant digraphs, such as <sh>, <ch>, <th> (voiced/​unvoiced)
    • common phoneme–grapheme correspondences, such as when <s> makes the [z] sound in the final position in words such as is, was, his
    • short vowel sounds
      [a] hat,
      [e] pet,
      [i] tip,
      [o] hot,
      [u] tub  
      presented early in the sequence to combine with consonants
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