WA2ELAP4

Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters, when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words

WA2ELAP4

For example:

  • reading and writing words of more than one syllable with
    • vowel digraphs, such as <ee>, <oo>, <ai>, <ay>, <ey>, <ea>, <au>, <oi>, <ou>, <ow>, <ui>
    • less common long vowel patterns, such as <igh> high, <ie> chief
    • consonant clusters, such as <tch>, <spl>, <scr>, <ph>, <tw>, <gh>
    • silent letters, such as <k> know, <g> gnome, <t> whistle, <h> hour, <l> walk
  • reading and writing compound words, such as motorcycle, whiteboard, rainbow, breakfast
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