Suite of Cranbrook State School Spelling Learning Goals
Emergent Spellers
Letter-Name Alphabetic Spellers (single
phonograms)
1. I can match things to a concept
 Match pictures and symbols to form groups.
6. I can identify beginning consonants
 Recognise each letter makes a sound/s
2. I can identify rhymes and syllables
 Hear and recognise words that rhyme.
 Say rhyming words.
3. I can identify letters
 listening to the sounds they hear in the word, and
writing letters to represent those sounds
7. I can identify word families with the same vowel
 Make words with the same rime by changing the
beginning sound or blend
8. I can identify and blend sounds and letters together
Stretching and joining sounds together to make
words
4. I can identify consonants and vowel sounds
 Matching pictures to letters
9. I can identify short vowel word families
 Making word family lists (eg –ag, -ug, -ig; -in, -en, on)
 Write CVC patterns to make words
10. I can spell short vowel words with one syllable
 Write CVC patterns to make words
5. I can match letters to sounds
 Matching pictures to letters from the sounds heard
11. I can spell ‘rascal r’ and short vowel words
Write words with ‘r’ influencing or changing the vowel
sound
12. I can spell words with contractions
 Identify and write words with contractions
Within Word Pattern Spellers
(multiple phonograms)
Syllables and Affixes Spellers
Derivational Relations Spellers
13. I can identify words with short and long vowel
patterns
 Identify words with a silent e have a long vowel
sound. Words with no silent e have a short vowel
sound.
14. I can spell words with short and long vowel patterns
 Spell one syllable words with and without a silent e.
23. I can change endings for verbs and plurals
 Use suffixes and know they may change the word
tense (past, present and future) and to represent more
than item (eg person – people).
31. I can use words with prefixes
 Write words with prefixes and understand how the
word meaning has changed
24. I can use more complex compound words
 Identify and write compound words from base words
15a. I can spell words with common short and long
vowel patterns
 Spell one syllable words with common short and
long vowel patterns. (eg leaf, road, sail, broom)
15b. I can spell words with less common long vowel
patterns
 Spell words with less common long vowel patterns
(eg brave, stay, coach, true, quite)
16. I can spell vowel words with ‘rascal r’
 Read, say and write words with an inflected r sound
25. I can identify syllable breaks
 Use and apply knowledge of syllable rules to break
words into chunks when spelling and writing
32. I can use words with suffixes
 Write words with suffixes and understand how the
grammar meaning of words have changed
33. I can use words with the suffix –ion
 Write words with the suffix ‘ion’ and understand how
the grammar meaning of words have changed
17. I can spell words with multiple phonogram and
blended sounds
 Use knowledge of sounds, visual, meaning and
general rules to spell words
18. I can use consonant blends and clusters
 Stretching and joining sounds together to make
words
19. I can spell sight words
 Knows most high-frequency sight words. Does not
need to sound these words out.
20. I can spell contraction words
 Identify and write words with contractions
21. I can use plural endings and past tense verbs
 Use suffixes and know they may change the word
tense - past, present and future (rode, riding, ride) and
to represent more than item (eg saddle – saddles,
family - families).
22. I can spell homophones
 Identify the correct spelling of words in given
situations.
26. I can use vowel patterns in stressed syllables
 Identifying and writing words with long vowel
patterns, ‘aw’, modified ‘r’ and ‘schwa’ sounds
34. I can use vowel and consonant changes
27. I can use unstressed syllables in words
 Identifying and writing words with unaccented final
and initial syllables
28. I can explore consonants
 Identifying and writing words with hard/soft sounds
or have silent letter combinations
35. I can use words with Greek and Latin elements
 Use prior knowledge to spell unknown words.
29. I can use prefixes and suffixes
 Knows when beginnings and endings are added to a
base word its meaning is changed.
30. I can explore different features of words
 Know more complex homographs, homophones and
words with complex vowel patterns
 Write words with silent/sounded consonants, long/short
vowels, ‘schwa’ sound endings (ity, el/al, tion)
36. I can use meanings of words, roots and affixes
 Is able to verbalise similarities, differences,
relationships and origins of words.