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VC2E2LY04

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By the end of Level 2: 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'
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EnglishLevel 2Literacy strandPhonic and word knowledge

A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in English, Level 2. 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 — ✓ marks codes where Victoria kept the national numbering; all correspondences are machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).

AC9E2LY10high confidenceEnglish · Year 2 · Literacy

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

AC9E3LY09high confidenceEnglish · Year 3 · Literacy

understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns

AC9E1LY11high confidenceEnglish · Year 1 · Literacy

use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words

AC9E2LY04✓ same numberingmedium confidenceEnglish · Year 2 · Literacy

read texts with phrasing and fluency, using phonic and word knowledge, and monitoring meaning by re-reading and self-correcting

Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

high confidence4 skills

Blending Sounds to Read WordsPhonics & Word Readingages 4–7 Vowel DigraphsPhonics & Word Readingages 4–7 Alternative Spellings for SoundsSpelling & Word Studyages 6–9 Consonant DigraphsPhonics & Word Readingages 4–7
3 other candidate matches — 3 medium

medium confidence

Syllables (age 6+)Phonics & Word Readingages 6–9 TrigraphsPhonics & Word Readingages 5–6 Diphthongs and complex vowelsPhonics & Word Readingages 5–6

Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.

Nearby in the Literacy strand (Level 2):
VC2E2LY01VC2E2LY02VC2E2LY03VC2E2LY05VC2E2LY06VC2E2LY07VC2E2LY08VC2E2LY09

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