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AC9E4LY10 Year 4 English

AC9E4LY10 | Year 4 English: Phonic and word knowledge

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor 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
Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Phonic and word knowledge

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 4 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration applying generalisations for adding affixes; for example, “hope” – “hoping”, “begin” – “beginning”, “country” – “countries”
  • • Elaboration building morphemic word families and exploring word origins; for example, "tricycle", "tripod" and "triangle"

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