AC9E2LY12 – Year 2 English: Phonic and word knowledge
Content Descriptor
This content descriptor sits within Year 2 English. Use it to identify the learning students need, connect it with the achievement standard and plan suitable evidence of learning.
What this means for planning
AC9E2LY12 focuses on morphemic word families. Students use meaningful word parts, including prefixes and suffixes, to build related words and support spelling. This is distinct from the phoneme and grapheme work in AC9E2LY10, although both contribute to flexible word knowledge.
A practical planning sequence
- Begin with a known base: Choose a familiar base word and build a small family in which the added prefix or suffix produces a useful change in meaning or function.
- Notice meaning and spelling: Ask students what stays the same, what changes and how the new word relates to the base.
- Apply the family: Use reading, word sorting, sentence creation and spelling so students meet the same morphemes in connected contexts.
Evidence to look for
- A correctly organised word family showing the relationship between base words and added morphemes.
- A student explanation of how a prefix or suffix changes a word’s meaning or use.
- Spelling or sentence samples that apply known morphemic knowledge to a less familiar word.
See the complete curriculum context
Open the achievement standard and all linked content descriptors together in the Year 2 English curriculum map.
Related item: Compare AC9E2LY10: phoneme and grapheme matches.
A TeaCheese planning example
Use AC9E2LY12 in a TeaCheese planning brief to build a word family lesson with explicit meaning, spelling and transfer checks.
Planning guides: How content descriptions work in the Australian Curriculum · Turn a content description into learning intentions and success criteria
Elaborations
- • Elaboration using morphemic knowledge of words to spell unknown words; for example, “one”, “once”, “cover”, “covering”, “uncover”
- • Elaboration writing unknown words using morphemic knowledge; for example, using the known word “friend” to write “friendly” and “friendship”
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They use phonic and morphemic knowledge, and grammatical patterns to read unfamiliar words and most high-frequency words.See it on the standard page →
- They spell words with regular spelling patterns, and use phonic and morphemic knowledge to attempt to spell words with less common patterns.See it on the standard page →