English Unit: Decoding Unknown Words
Our Decoding Unknown Words Unit empowers students with essential strategies to decode unfamiliar words confidently. Through engaging activities, games, and collaborative learning, students explore phonics decoding and word structure analysis. By mastering these techniques, students enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition, laying a foundation for lifelong literacy.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to confidently read different types of texts aloud with fluency and intonation and use our knowledge of reading strategies, vocabulary, grammar and phonics when reading.
- We are learning to confidently read different types of texts aloud with fluency and intonation and use our knowledge of reading strategies, vocabulary, grammar and phonics when reading.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E3LY04
9
Read a range of texts using phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently, re-reading and self-correcting when required
ACELY1679
8.4
Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting
EN2-4A
old
Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies
EN2-VOCAB-01
new
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
EN2-REFLU-01
new
Sustains independent reading with accuracy, automaticity, rate and prosody suited to purpose, audience and meaning
EN2-RECOM-01
new
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN2-UARL-01
new
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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