Foundation English skills () « back to years
The skills below are 100% aligned with Australian and New Zealand school curriculum and up to
90%+
with common core english. Skills are organized into groups
and are ordered in a way we think would be useful. To master a skill, you will have to gain 10
stars
(In case of a classroom initiated time-bound practise session, the time you can practise and the
skill level is determined by your teacher).
There are 3 levels to each skill,
- Easy: A star will be taken away if you get 3 consecutive wrong answers.
- Medium: A star will be taken away if you get 2 consecutive wrong answers.
- Hard: A star will be taken away on each wrong answer.
Most skills have multiple type of questions with varying difficulties. If you keep getting wrong
answers, system may give you the simplest of question to answer. Idea is to
have
you master these skills with a ground up approach.
If you get an answer wrong, you can read the solution and helpful tips that briefly explain the skill/topic you are practising.
All the best with your Foundation english. If you see any issue,
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Under development (100+ skills available by end of July)
Warm up
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Text structure and organisation
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The English alphabet
- Identify the letters
- Identify the lowercase letter
- Identify the uppercase letter
- Identify commonly confused letters
- Matching uppercase letter to the lowercase letter
- Identify the lowercase letters
- Matching lowercase letter to the uppercase letter
- Identify the uppercase letters
- Sort the letters in ABC order
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Starting with constants & vowels
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Syllables
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Rhyming
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Blending and segmenting
Speed up
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Consonant sounds and letters
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Consonant blends and digraphs
- Use correct initial consonant blend to complete the word
- Use correct final consonant blend to complete a word
- Starting consonant blend
- Ending consonant blend
- Pick a correct digraph
- Identify the starting consonant blend
- Identify the ending consonant blend
- Sound of words ending with -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz, -ck
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Practice short vowels
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Select short
a
word matching the picture -
Fill blanks to
complete the short
a
word -
The short
a
practice with sentences -
Select short
e
word matching the picture -
Fill blanks to
complete the short
e
word -
The short
e
practice with sentences -
Select short
i
word matching the picture -
Fill blanks to
complete the short
i
words -
The short
i
practice with sentences -
Select short
o
word matching the picture -
Fill blanks to
complete the short
o
word -
The short
o
practice with sentences -
Select short
u
word matching the picture -
Fill blanks to
complete the short
u
word -
The short
u
practice with sentences - Recognize the short vowel sound in a word
- Use the correct short vowel to complete the word
- Unscramble the short vowel word
- Use the correct short vowel word to complete the sentence
- Which word has the short a sound
- Which word has the short e sound
- Which word has the short i sound
- Which word has the short o sound
- Which word has the short u sound
- Practice by answering short vowel words question
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Select short
Sprint
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Long vowels
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Sight (high frequency) words
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Start with sentences
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Start with nouns, verbs and adjectives
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Capitalisation