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Record your class weekly spelling results on the Spelling Champions poster. Add your students' names and award stickers or write results in each week.
Use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell words
Use knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to read and write words whose spelling is not completely predictable from their sounds, including high-frequency words
Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns, including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphological word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and word origins, to spell more complex words
Read and write high-frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling
Build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations
Use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words
Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words
Spell one- and two-syllable words with common letter patterns
Use knowledge of letter patterns and morphemes to read and write high-frequency words and words whose spelling is not predictable from their sounds
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words
Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words
Read and write a large core of high frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words
Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns
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
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
Draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter– sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
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
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
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Sustains independent reading with accuracy, automaticity, rate and prosody suited to purpose, audience and meaning
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Identify all Standard Australian English phonemes, including short and long vowels, separate sounds in clusters
Use visual memory to write high-frequency words and words where spelling is not predictable from the sounds
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters
Understand how to use spelling patterns and generalisations including syllabification, letter combinations including double letters, and morphemic knowledge to build word families
Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling
Recognise most letter–sound matches including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel digraphs and common long vowels, and understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations
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
Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, prefixes, suffixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to spell new words, including technical words and words adopted from other languages
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns
Know how to use onset and rime to spell words where sounds map more directly onto letters
Understand how to use letter–sound relationships and less common letter combinations to spell words