Learning Map
EnglishPhonics & Word Readingusually ages 4–6

Knowing all letters

Recognise and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet; name the letters in order and use letter names to distinguish between alternative spellings

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Try this together

Can your child point to any letter — capital or small — and tell you its name? And can they say the alphabet in order from A to Z?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Understanding printages 4–6Must understand print direction before letter identification matters
Knowing all lettersthis skill · ages 4–6
Unlocks
Single Letter Soundsages 4–6Must recognise letters before learning their sounds
Reading High-Frequency Words by Sightages 5–8Need to recognise letters to read sight words
Tricky wordsages 5–8Need letter recognition for exception word spelling
Using a Dictionary to Check Spellingsages 7–11Dictionary use requires alphabetical order via letter recognition
Hieroglyphs and Papyrusages 5–7Understanding that letters are symbols representing sounds provides a framework for grasping how hieroglyphs encode language differently
Scribes and the Rosetta Stoneages 7–9Knowing how the English alphabet maps symbols to sounds enriches the study of Champollion's decipherment of the hieroglyphic code on the Rosetta Stone

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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

AC9E1LA10medium confidenceYear 1 · Language

understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns

AC9E1LY08low confidenceYear 1 · Literacy

write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters

AC9E1LY13low confidenceYear 1 · Literacy

spell one- and two-syllable words with common letter patterns

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

ENE-SPELL-01medium confidenceEnglish K-10 · Early Stage 1
EN1-SPELL-01medium confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2EFLY15medium confidenceEnglish · Foundation · Literacy strand
VC2EFLA09medium confidenceEnglish · Foundation · Language strand
VC2EFLY05medium confidenceEnglish · Foundation · Literacy strand

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.

Nearby on the map

Blending Sounds to Read Wordsages 4–7 Consonant Digraphsages 4–7 Onsets & Rimesages 4–7 Rhyming wordsages 4–6

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