ACELA1485

Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words

Elaborations

• using sound and visual spelling strategies to explore less common letter patterns after a short vowel, for example words that end in ‘dge’ such as ‘badge’, ‘edge’, ‘fridge’, ‘dodge’ and ‘smudge’ (Skills: Literacy)
• using sound and visual spelling strategies to spell words with three-letter blends, for example ‘str-ip’ (Skills: Literacy)

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