ACELA1459

Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound

Elaborations

• recognising that letters can have more than one sound, for example the letter ‘u’ in ‘cut’, ‘put’, ‘use’ and the letter ‘a’ in ‘cat’, ‘father’, ‘any’ (Skills: Literacy)
• recognising sounds that can be produced by different letters, for example the ‘s’ sound in ‘sat’ and ‘cent’ (Skills: Literacy)

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