VC2E2LY04

use phoneme–grapheme correspondence knowledge to read and write words of one or more syllables with vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant blends and silent letters (phonic knowledge)

• reading words with digraphs where one letter is not pronounced (for example, ‘knife’ and ‘thumb’) and using them in writing
• providing the sounds for less common sound–letter matches (for example, ‘ight’) and using them in writing
• reading words with vowel digraphs (‘ee’, ‘oo’, ‘ai’, ‘ay’ and ‘ea’)