VC2E1LY05
Parents start here
By the end of Level 1: your child knows the sound each letter makes, like /a/ in cat and /e/ in bed, and says them quickly.
- Say the most common sound for each consonant when shown the letter
- Distinguish short vowel sounds in CVC words (e.g. /a/ in 'cat' vs /e/ in 'bed')
One skill from the map, ages 4–6 — 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).
understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable 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
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
2 other candidate matches — 1 medium, 1 low
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Literacy strand (Level 1):
VC2E1LY01VC2E1LY02VC2E1LY03VC2E1LY04VC2E1LY06VC2E1LY07VC2E1LY08VC2E1LY09
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.