Reading Contractions
Read and understand contractions with apostrophes, knowing the apostrophe represents omitted letters
How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
Does your child understand that 'can't' means 'cannot' and 'it's' means 'it is' — knowing the apostrophe stands for the missing letter or letters?
Where this sits on the map
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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 · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
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.