NSW Syllabus

English
- Early Stage One
  - Objective A
    - Speaking and Listening 1
      - ENe-1A
        Communicates with peers and known adults in informal and guided activities demonstrating emerging skills of group interaction
        
        Respond to simple questions either verbally or non-verbally
        
        Play Activities 5
        
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    - Writing and Representing 1
      - ENe-2A
        Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message
        
        Know that spoken sounds and words can be written down using letters of the alphabet and how to write some high-frequency sight words and known words (ACELA1758)
        
        Play Activities 98
        
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    - Handwriting and Using Digital Technologies
      - ENe-3A
        Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
        
        Begin to understand the sequence of letters through structured and guided activities
        
        Play Activities 6
        
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        Write from left to right and leave spaces between words
        
        Play Activities 2
        
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    - Reading and Viewing 1
      - ENe-4A
        Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
        
        Recognise the letters of the alphabet and know there are lower and upper case letters (ACELA1440)
        
        Play Activities 37
        
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        Understand that spoken words are made up of sounds
        
        Play Activities 11
        
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        Recognise rhymes, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (ACELA1439)
        
        Play Activities 2
        
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        Consistently identify words that start with the same initial sound
        
        Play Activities 39
        
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        segment words into onset and rime
        
        Play Activities 51
        
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        Identify the beginning and end sounds of words
        
        Play Activities 59
        
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        Segment simple spoken words into separate sounds
        
        Play Activities 42
        
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        recognise high-frequency words, including own name
        
        Play Activities 16
        
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        Use phonological strategies when reading, including letter-sound relationships
        
        Play Activities 144
        
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        Use knowledge of letters and sounds to decode words, including those in initial, final and medial positions
        
        Play Activities 194
        
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        Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650)
        
        Play Activities 178
        
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    - Spelling
      - ENe-5A
        Demonstrates developing skills in using letters, simple sound blends and some sight words to represent known words when spelling
        
        Know how to use onset and rime to spell words (ACELA1438)
        
        Play Activities 30
        
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        Identify patterns in words leading to the identification of word families
        
        Play Activities 6
        
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        Use and write beginning and ending sounds of spoken words
        
        Play Activities 22
        
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        Know that letters are used to represent sounds when writing words
        
        Play Activities 23
        
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        Use plural form when spelling some words
        
        Play Activities 3
        
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  - Objective B
    - Reading and Viewing 2
      - ENe-8B
        Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
        
        Recognise that words and pictures have meaning and that words can be read aloud
        
        Play Activities 5
        
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    - Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary
      - ENe-9B
        Demonstrates developing skills and knowledge in grammar, punctuation and vocabulary when responding to and composing texts
        
        Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (ACELA1435)
        
        Play Activities 3
        
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        Demonstrate an awareness of nouns, pronouns and conjunctions
        
        Play Activities 4
        
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- Stage One
  - Objective A
    - Speaking and Listening 1
      - EN1-1A
        Communicates with a range of people in informal and guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations
        
        Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs (ACELT1592)
        
        Play Activities 22
        
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        Carry out complex instructions involving more than one step
        
        Play Activities 92
        
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    - Writing and Representing 1
      - EN1-2A
        Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
        
        Compose texts supported by visual information (eg diagrams and maps) on familiar topics
        
        Play Activities 14
        
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        Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure (ACELY1662, ACELY1672)
        
        Play Activities 15
        
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    - Reading and Viewing 1
      - EN1-4A
        Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
        
        Recognise grammatical patterns to enhance comprehension, eg action verbs, words or groups of words that tell who, what, when, where and how
        
        Play Activities 16
        
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        Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and can be, for example, common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)
        
        Play Activities 6
        
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        Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent 'What's happening?', 'Who or what is involved?' and the surrounding circumstances (ACELA1451)
        
        Play Activities 5
        
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        Understand how sentence punctuation is used to enhance meaning and fluency
        
        Play Activities 8
        
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        Identify word families and word origins to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words, eg base words, rhyming words and synonyms
        
        Play Activities 45
        
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        Recognise sound-letter matches including common vowel and consonant digraphs and consonant blends (ACELA1458)
        
        Play Activities 338
        
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        Understand the variability of sound-letter matches (ACELA1459)
        
        Play Activities 110
        
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        Recognise most sound-letter matches including silent letters, vowel/consonant digraphs and many less common sound-letter combinations (ACELA1474)
        
        Play Activities 303
        
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        Automatically recognise irregular high-frequency words, eg 'come' and 'are'
        
        Play Activities 32
        
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        Use phonological, graphological, syntactic and semantic cues to decode and make meaning from written texts, eg using an increasing repertoire of high-frequency and sight words, segmenting words into syllables
        
        Play Activities 227
        
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        Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1660, ACELY1670)
        
        Play Activities 63
        
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        Use background knowledge of a topic to make inferences about the ideas in a text
        
        Play Activities 71
        
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        Predict author intent, series of events and possible endings in an imaginative, informative and persuasive text
        
        Play Activities 34
        
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        Identify visual representations of characters' actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469)
        
        Play Activities 45
        
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    - Spelling
      - EN1-5A
        Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter-sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
        
        Know that regular one-syllable words are made up of letters and common letter clusters that correspond to the sounds heard, and how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words (ACELA1778)
        
        Play Activities 4
        
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        Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell words, and use morphemes and syllabification to break up simple words and use visual memory to write irregular words (ACELA1471)
        
        Play Activities 58
        
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        Recognise common prefixes and suffixes and how they change a word's meaning (ACELA1455, ACELA1472)
        
        Play Activities 4
        
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        Isolate and write the initial, medial and final sound of a word
        
        Play Activities 5
        
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        Exchange one letter in a written word with a different letter to make a new word
        
        Play Activities 50
        
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        Use double consonants where appropriate, eg 'hopping'
        
        Play Activities 8
        
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        Recognise when a word is spelt incorrectly
        
        Play Activities 26
        
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        Use morphemic and phonological knowledge when spelling
        
        Play Activities 20
        
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  - Objective B
    - Speaking and Listening 2
      - EN1-6B
        Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
        
        Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things (ACELA1462)
        
        Play Activities 21
        
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    - Writing and Representing 2
      - EN1-7B
        Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
        
        Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1447, ACELA1463)
        
        Play Activities 3
        
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    - Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary
      - EN1-9B
        Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
        
        Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452)
        
        Play Activities 11
        
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        Recognise that a preposition placed in front of a noun group can show where, when, eg 'on the box' (where), 'before my birthday' (when)
        
        Play Activities 8
        
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        Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449)
        
        Play Activities 38
        
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        Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists (ACELA1465)
        
        Play Activities 18
        
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        Understand how texts are made cohesive through resources, for example word associations, synonyms, and antonyms (ACELA1464)
        
        Play Activities 69
        
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        Recognise, discuss and use creative word play, eg alliteration and onomatopoeia
        
        Play Activities 3
        
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        Compose sentences effectively using basic grammatical features and punctuation conventions
        
        Play Activities 52
        
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- Stage Two
  - Objective A
    - Speaking and Listening 1
      - EN2-1A
        Communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts
        
        Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information (ACELY1687)
        
        Play Activities 4
        
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    - Writing and Representing 1
      - EN2-2A
        Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
        
        Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns (ACELT1606)
        
        Play Activities 4
        
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        Experiment with visual, multimodal and digital processes to represent ideas encountered in texts
        
        Play Activities 44
        
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        Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation (ACELY1683)
        
        Play Activities 26
        
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        Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695)
        
        Play Activities 72
        
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