VC2E1LY03
Parents start here
By the end of Level 1: your child knows the special words teachers use for sounds, letters and word parts.
- Say the sounds for common graphemes (e.g. 'sh', 'ch', 'th', 'ee', 'igh') and use 'phoneme' and 'grapheme' correctly when explaining
- Blend sounds together to read an unfamiliar word and explain what they are doing using the word 'blend'
One skill from the map, ages 4–7 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in English, Level 1. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — English ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)
segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness)
orally manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words (phonological awareness)
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence3 skills
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Literacy strand (Level 1):
VC2E1LY01VC2E1LY02VC2E1LY04VC2E1LY05VC2E1LY06VC2E1LY07VC2E1LY08VC2E1LY09
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.