AC9E1LY09
Parents start here
Your child is learning to clap the beats in a word — but-ter-fly has three — and use those chunks to help read and spell it.
- Clap out syllables in spoken words (e.g. 'butterfly' = 3 claps)
- Blend syllables to form words (e.g. 'rain' + 'bow' → 'rainbow')
One skill from the map, ages 5–6 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
“segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)”
Official source: Australian Curriculum v9 — English ↗ · Content © ACARA, CC BY 4.0 · unofficial reference — verify at the official site
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence1 skill
11 other candidate matches — 7 medium, 4 low
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Literacy strand:
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Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.