R-Controlled Vowel Sounds
Read and spell words containing r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, ur, or, ore) and vowel-r patterns where 'r' modifies the vowel sound
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When your child reads words like 'car', 'bird', 'nurse', or 'fork', can they recognise that the 'r' after the vowel changes its sound, and read the word correctly?
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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
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
spell one- and two-syllable words with common letter patterns
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.