VCELY221
      
          Read familiar and some unfamiliar texts with phrasing and fluency by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting
      
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                      using prior and learned knowledge and vocabulary to make and confirm predictions when reading text
                  
 
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                      using grammatical knowledge to predict likely sentence patterns when reading more complex narratives and informative texts
                  
 
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                      using knowledge of sound–letter relationships and high-frequency sight words when decoding text
                  
 
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                      monitoring own reading and self-correcting when reading does not make sense, using illustrations, context, phonics, grammar knowledge and prior and learned topic knowledge
                  
 
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                      using grammar and meaning to read aloud with fluency and intonation
                  
 
          
      VCELY221 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy