WA3ELAP1

Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns

WA3ELAP1

For example:

  • blending, segmenting and syllabifying when reading and writing words with
    • more complex consonant patterns, such as <ch> machine, <squ> squash, <dge> edge, <shr> shrink, <t> making a [sh] sound as in lotion or a [ch] sound as in adventure
    • vowel patterns, such as <oo> moon, fool, <ui> fruit, <ough> through, tough, <eigh> neigh, eight, <eo> people, <oe> canoe, <ou> could, shoulder, touch
    • r‑controlled vowels, such as <air> stair, <are> bare, <ear> beard, <ear> learn, <ore> sore, <our> hour, four, <aw> hawk, <augh> as in taught
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