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English Unit: Strategic Spelling

English Unit: Strategic Spelling
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Description

This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students to learn spelling strategies associated with root words and affixes. The unit contains a presentation that walks students through the strategies, a student reference card, accompanying worksheets and games. At the completion of the unit, there is an assessment for teachers to utilise to assess student learning. 
 

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E5LY09 9

Build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations

AC9E5LY10 9

Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word

ACELA1513 8.4

Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words

ACELA1514 8.4

Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word

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

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