Consonant Digraphs
Read and spell words containing consonant digraphs and less common consonant spellings (ch, sh, th, ck, tch, ng, ph, wh, k for /k/)
How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
When your child sees words like 'shop', 'chip', 'ring', or 'photo', can they spot that two letters together make one sound and read the whole word correctly?
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solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
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) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.