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Alternative Spellings for Known Sounds

Recognise alternative grapheme-phoneme correspondences for known phonemes (e.g., /dʒ/ as ge/dge/g, /s/ as c, /n/ as kn/gn, /r/ as wr, /ʒ/ as s), reading words with less common spellings for familiar sounds

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Question 1 of 3

Which word has the same vowel sound as the word "rain"?

Question 2 of 3

Which of the following words uses the letters “dge” to represent the /j/ sound?

Question 3 of 3

How many individual sounds (phonemes) are in the spoken word "cat"?

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