AC9E4LY10
Year 4
English
AC9E4LY10 – Year 4 English: Phonic and word knowledge
Substrand
Phonic and word knowledge
This Content Descriptor from Year 4 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Content Description
understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns, including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphological word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and word origins, to spell more complex words
Elaborations
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1
applying generalisations for adding affixes; for example, “hope” – “hoping”, “begin” – “beginning”, “country” – “countries”
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2
building morphemic word families and exploring word origins; for example, "tricycle", "tripod" and "triangle"
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