Content Points and National Literacy Learning Progression

Phonological awareness

ENE-PHOAW-01 – identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts

• orally blend up to 4 phonemes together to make a one-syllable spoken word (PhA4)

• orally segment one-syllable words comprised of up to 4 phonemes into separate phonemes (PhA4)

• listen to up to 4 words, indicate those that start with the same phoneme and say other words that start with that phoneme (PhA2)

Print conventions

ENE-PRINT-01 – tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print 

• blend single-letter grapheme-phoneme correspondences to decode VC and CVC words, and apply this knowledge when reading, including decodable texts (PKW3, PKW4)

• segment and encode single-letter VC and CVC words, and apply this knowledge when writing words and creating texts (PKW4)

• blend common single-letter grapheme-phoneme correspondences to read CCVC and CVCC words, and apply this when reading texts, including decodable texts (PKW5)

• segment common single-letter grapheme-phoneme correspondences to encode CCVC and CVCC words (PKW5)

Reading fluency

ENE-REFLU-01 – reads decodable texts aloud with automaticity

• read texts with taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences and taught high-frequency words with automaticity

• stop at the end of a sentence in response to a full stop (FIY3)

Reading comprehension

ENE-RECOM-01 – comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect

• understand how adjectives describe a noun and verbs identify actions in a sentence

• recall key characters, events and/or information in text (UnT5)

Spelling

ENE-SPELL-01 – applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts 

• combine phonological, phonic, orthographic and morphemic knowledge to spell taught high-frequency irregular words comprising up to 3 phonemes (SpG5)

• segment single-syllable words into phonemes as a strategy for spelling (SpG4)

• add the plural-marking suffix (es) to base nouns that require no change when suffixed (SpG5)

Handwriting