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Syllables (age 6+)

Decode words of two or more syllables by breaking them into syllable chunks, applying knowledge that every syllable must contain a vowel sound, and blending the parts together

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When your child encounters a long word like 'fantastic' or 'umbrella', can they break it into syllables and blend the parts together to read the whole word?

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Builds on
Blending Sounds to Read Wordsages 4–7Must be able to blend sounds within each syllable
Syllablesages 5–6Multi-syllable decoding requires syllable awareness
Alternative Spellings for Known Soundsages 6–8Helpful to know alternative GPCs when decoding longer words
Syllables (age 6+)this skill · ages 6–9
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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

AC9E1LY12high confidenceYear 1 · Literacy

understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound

AC9E1LY11medium confidenceYear 1 · Literacy

use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words

AC9E3LY09medium confidenceYear 3 · Literacy

understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

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

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E1LY04high confidenceEnglish · Level 1 · Literacy strand
VC2E2LY04medium confidenceEnglish · Level 2 · Literacy strand
VC2EFLY03medium 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.

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