Phonics and word knowledge planner:
Victorian Curriculum
Reading and Viewing:
Language - Phonic and Word Knowledge
Level 1:
Recognise short vowels, common long
vowels and consonant digraphs, and
consonant blends (VCELA181)
Understand how to spell one and two
syllable words with common letter
patterns (VCELA182)
Understand that a letter can represent
more than one sound, and that a syllable
must contain a vowel sound (VCELA183)
Writing:
Language - Phonic and Word Knowledge
Level 1:
Recognise and know how to use simple
grammatical morphemes in word families
(VCELA191)
Understand how to use visual memory to
write high-frequency words, and that
some high-frequency words have regular
Level 2:
Learn some generalisations for adding
suffixes to words (VCELA217)
Recognise most letter–sound matches
including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel
digraphs and common long vowels, and
understand that a sound can be
represented by various letter
combinations (VCELA218)
Level 2:
Understand how to use digraphs, long
vowels, blends, silent letters and
syllabification to spell simple words
including compound words (VCELA226)
Use visual memory to write high-
frequency words and words where
spelling is not predictable from the
Level 3: Level 4:
Understand how to apply knowledge of
letter–sound relationships, and blending
and segmenting to read and use more
complex words with less common
consonant and vowel clusters
(VCELA249)
Recognise most high-frequency words,
know how to use common prefixes and
suffixes, and know some homophones
and generalisations for adding a suffix to
a base word (VCELA250)
Level 3: Level 4:
Understand how to use letter–sound Understand how to use phonic
relationships and less common letter generalisations to identify and write
combinations to spell words (VCELA263) words with more complex letter
combinations (VCELA294)
Understand how to use spelling patterns
and generalisations including
syllabification, letter combinations
and irregular spelling components
(VCELA184)
Speaking and Listening:
Language - Phonic and Word Knowledge
Level 1:
Identify the separate phonemes in
consonant blends or clusters at the
beginnings and ends of syllables
(VCELA203)
Manipulate phonemes by addition,
deletion and substitution of initial, medial
and final phonemes to generate new
words (VCELA204)
sounds (VCELA227) including double letters, and morphemic
knowledge to build word families
(VCELA295)
Recognise homophones and know how
to use context to identify correct spelling
(VCELA296)
Level 2: Level 3: Level 4:
Manipulate more complex sounds in
spoken words through knowledge of
blending and segmenting sounds,
phoneme deletion and substitution
(VCELA238)
Identify all Standard Australian English
phonemes, including short and long
vowels, separate sounds in clusters
(VCELA239)
Guided group planner:
Group & Date: Review: Teach Current: Apply: Praise & Prompts:
Word building Sound Swap Decodable text &
Dictation

Date: CCVCC/CCCVC qu Decodable:

/k/ & /w/ The Quest for a Quoll
plank slump swift strap Dictation:
quit quiz quin quick quack Quinn and Sant squint in
the hot sun.

Date: qu ng Decodable:
/k/ & /w/ The kids’ band rocks!
fling cling clang slang Dictation:
quit quiz quin quick quack sling swing The kids in the band can
bang, clang, twang and
sing.

Date: ng th Decodable:
Kev at the Shop
fling cling clang slang that than then thin think Dictation:
sling swing thank I will get this can of fish.
Thump! The can drops
with a thud.

Date: th wh Decodable:
The Flash is Back
that than then thin think whip which whim wham Dictation:
thank whack Shan takes Whiz to the
vet where he gets help for
his leg.

Date: wh ch, tch Decodable:

Catch Me!
whip which whim wham chin such lunch patch Dictation:
 Group & Date: Review: Teach Current: Apply: Praise & Prompts:
Word building Sound Swap Decodable text &
Dictation

whack match ditch Dad went to fetch Chad

for lunch. He was on the
beach in a patch of sun.

Date & Students: ch, tch /ae/ Decodable:

Sant and Kale
chin such lunch patch wait pain snail play stay Dictation:
match ditch sway Sant the ant and his pal
Kale the snail, play on the
trail.