AC9EFLY10 Foundation English

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness)

Elaborations

• 1 saying the sounds when given a word; for example, “can” (“c-a-n”) or “ship” (“sh-i-p”)
• 2 saying the word when given the sounds; for example, “l-i-p” (“lip”) or “m-u-n-ch” (“munch”)
• 3 saying the new word when the beginning phoneme/medial/end phoneme in a word is replaced with a different phoneme; for example, “run” becomes “fun”, or “fun” becomes “fan”

Related Achievement Standards