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Elaboration (2) ACELA1438

breaking words into onset and rime to learn how to spell words that share the same pattern, for example ‘p-at’, ‘b-at’, ‘t-all’ and ‘f-all’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1779

building morphemic word families and exploring word origins, for example ‘tricycle’, ‘triangle’ and ‘triple’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1526

expanding knowledge of prefixes and suffixes and exploring meaning relationships between words for example ‘disappearance’, ‘submarine’, ‘subterranean’, ‘poisonous’ and ‘nervous’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1513

learning that many complex words were originally hyphenated but are now written without a hyphen, for example ‘uncommon, ‘renew’, ‘email’ and ‘refine’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1457

deleting initial onset sound in spoken words, for example delete the ‘f’ from ‘farm’ to make a new word ‘arm’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1471

drawing on knowledge of letter-sound relationships, for example breaking a word into syllables, then recording the sounds heard and thinking about the letter patterns that represent the sounds

Elaboration (2) ACELA1569

observing how authors sometimes use verbless clauses for effect (for example, ‘And what about the other woman? With her long black eyelashes and red lipstick’)

Elaboration (1) ACELA1458

using knowledge of letters sounds to write single-syllable words with consonant digraphs and consonant blends, for example ‘wish’ and ‘rest’

Elaboration (1) ACELA1485

using sound and visual spelling strategies to spell words with three-letter blends, for example ‘str-ip’

Elaboration (1) ACELA1779

building morphemic word families and exploring word origins, for example the prefix ‘nat’ means source, birth or tribe in ‘nature’, ‘natural’ and ‘native’

Elaboration (1) ACELA1513

using knowledge of known words and base words to spell new words, for example the spelling and meaning connections between ‘vision’, ‘television’ and ‘revision’

Elaboration (1) ACELA1526

applying accumulated knowledge of a wide range of letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words, for example ‘vacuum’, ‘yacht’, ‘ratio’ and ‘synthesis’

Elaboration (1) ACELA1471

exploring compound words by discussing the meaningful parts, for example the spelling and meaning of ‘homemade’ is informed by two smaller words ‘home’ and ‘made’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1439

identifying syllables in spoken words, for example clapping the rhythm of ‘Mon-day’, ‘Ja-cob’ or ‘Si-en-na’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1468

exploring names of people and places and how to write them using capital letters

using knowledge of sounds and visual patterns to read and write more complex letter combinations that have multiple representations in writing, for example ‘boy’ and ‘boil’, ‘howl’ and ‘foul’, ‘taught ’and ‘saw’

Elaboration (2) ACELY1734

explaining whether the author conveys meaning adequately, particularly in distinguishing fact from opinion

Elaboration (2) ACELA1563

understanding how and why spelling became standardised and how conventions have changed over time and continue to change through common usage, the invention of new words and creative combinations of existing words

Elaboration (2) ACELA1570

noting how technicality allows for efficient reference to shared knowledge, indicating growing expertise in the field (for example, ‘The Romantic poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes.’)

Elaboration (2) ACELA1430

repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases

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