Word Family Cones
Breaking words into onset and rime, students will notice words that share the same pattern. e.g. ‘p-at’, ‘b-at’. They will use the ice-cream to build word families.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use letters and sounds to spell words.
- We are learning to use letters and sounds, including onset and rime, to spell words.
- We are learning to orally blend and segment sentences, to segment words and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness).
- We are learning to orally blend and segment sentences and words and manipulate sounds in words.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLY13
9
Use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell words
AC9EFLY10
9
Segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness)
ACELA1438
8.4
Understand how to use knowledge of letters and sounds including onset and rime to spell words
ACELA1819
8.4
Segment sentences into individual words and orally blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words, and isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single syllable words
ENe-5A
old
Demonstrates developing skills in using letters, simple sound blends and some sight words to represent known words when spelling
ENE-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
ENE-PHOKW-01
new
Uses single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences and common digraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
ENE-PHOAW-01
new
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
VCELA158
Know how to use onset and rime to spell words where sounds map more directly onto letters
VCELA169
Blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words and isolate, blend and segment phonemes in single syllable words (first consonant sound, last consonant sound, middle vowel sound)
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