VC2E2LY05
Parents start here
Your child is learning to read common words like the, said and you straight away, without stopping to sound them out.
- Read common exception words instantly without sounding out (e.g. 'the', 'said', 'was', 'you')
- Note unusual correspondences between spelling and sound in exception words
One skill from the map, ages 5–8 — 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 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).
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
read and write an increasing number of high-frequency words
recognise and know how to write most high-frequency words including some homophones
use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence1 skill
5 other candidate matches — 5 medium
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Literacy strand (Level 2):
VC2E2LY01VC2E2LY02VC2E2LY03VC2E2LY04VC2E2LY06VC2E2LY07VC2E2LY08VC2E2LY09
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.