Alternative spellings of sounds
Read words where one sound has several spellings.
Taught in Primary 3 in Nigeria (NERDC), Year 2 in United Kingdom (National Curriculum), Grade 2 in Canada (Ontario).
Nigeria (NERDC)
Primary 3
- Strand
- Reading: Phonics and Word Recognition
- Called
- Alternative spellings of sounds
- How it's taught
- Letter sounds and blending with choral repetition and reading cards; oral English support since English is often a second language.
United Kingdom (National Curriculum)
Year 2
- Strand
- Word Reading
- Called
- Alternative spellings of sounds
- How it's taught
- Systematic synthetic phonics (letters-and-sounds progression); daily blending and segmenting; Year 1 phonics screening check.
Canada (Ontario)
Grade 2
- Strand
- Foundations of Language: Word Reading
- Called
- Alternative spellings of sounds
- How it's taught
- Explicit, systematic phonics under the 2023 Language curriculum: grapheme–phoneme correspondences, blending, and word-level decoding.