Students will be able to recognise the most common sound made by the letter ‘d’ as the initial letter of a spoken word.
Use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell words
Understand how to use knowledge of letters and sounds including onset and rime to spell words
Demonstrates developing skills in using letters, simple sound blends and some sight words to represent known words when spelling
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
Uses single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences and common digraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Know how to use onset and rime to spell words where sounds map more directly onto letters