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Strategic Spelling Assessment
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Strategic Spelling Assessment

This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of spelling strategies associated with root words and affixes. This resource is part of the Strategic Spelling Unit Plan.
 

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to use known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words.
  • We are learning to use known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words.
  • We are learning to use less common plurals, e.g. cactus/cacti, louse/lice and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word, e.g. ‘tion’ can change verbs into nouns, protect – protection.
  • We are learning to use less common plurals, e.g. cactus/cacti, louse/lice, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word, e.g. ‘tion’ can change verbs into nouns, protect – protection.

Curriculum alignment

EN3-4A old Draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts EN3-VOCAB-01 new Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts EN3-RECOM-01 new Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN3-SPELL-01 new Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
VCELA312 Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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