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LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum

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Welcome to LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum.

LiteracyPlanet is the most comprehensive online literacy resource for Australian schools. It features 1,000s of exercises to support the development of key literacy skills from the early learning years to Year 9 and up, including pre-reading, phonics, sight words, reading, spelling, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar and punctuation.

An Australian-developed resource, LiteracyPlanet is founded on the beliefs that literacy skills are an essential foundation for life, and students learn better when they are engaged and having fun. Teachers are instrumental in helping their students develop these valuable skills, and need curriculum-aligned resources that are effective and easy to use.

LiteracyPlanet’s content is developed by educators and designed to complement and support teaching of the Australian Curriculum, with a primary focus on English. This guide helps teachers understand how LiteracyPlanet is aligned to the Australian Curriculum, and links each exercise to the associated knowledge, skills and learning outcomes. Using this guide, teachers will be able to see how the content is mapped to the general outcomes and strands of the English Curriculum, and what is available for their day-to-day planning.

Thank you for making LiteracyPlanet a resource in your school. We are excited to be a part of your students’ learning journey.

Adam McArthur CEO, LiteracyPlanet.

LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum

Digital version available

LiteracyPlanet & the Australian Curriculum is available to LiteracyPlanet subscribers in digital format. The digital version can be downloaded in full or by year level from the ‘Teaching Resources’ section of the LiteracyPlanet website. Alternatively, to request a copy via email teachers can contact LiteracyPlanet on 1300 565 696 or [email protected].

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Content Summary

Pre-School (Age 3-4) The Beginning to Early Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.

Exercise lists: Pre-reading

Foundation (Age 5-6) The Beginning Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.

Exercise lists: PhonicsSight wordsSpellingComprehensionGrammar and punctuation

Year 1 (Age 6-7)The Early Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.

Exercise lists: PhonicsSight wordsSpellingComprehensionGrammar and punctuation

Year 2 (Age 7-8)The Transitional to Fluent Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.

Exercise lists: PhonicsSight wordsSpellingReading fluencyComprehensionGrammar and punctuation

Year 3 (Age 8-9)The Fluent Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.

Exercise lists: PhonicsSight wordsSpellingReading fluencyComprehensionGrammar and punctuation


Exercise lists: SpellingReading fluencyComprehensionGrammar and punctuation


Exercise lists: SpellingReading fluencyComprehensionGrammar and punctuation

Year 6 (Age 11-12)The Independent to Advanced Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.

Exercise lists: SpellingComprehensionGrammar and punctuation

Year 7 (Age 12-13)The Independent to Advanced Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.


Year 8 (Age 13-14)The Advanced Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.


Year 9 and above (Age 14+)The Advanced Reader and WriterOverview of content matched to Australian Curriculum content descriptors, strand and elaborations.

Exercise lists: ComprehensionGrammar and punctuation

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Content Summary

Pre-Reading

Targeting ages 3-5, pre-reading exercises are colourful and highly interactive. They cover the following three areas:

Visual skills includes visually distinguishing differences and similarities, exploring concepts of directionality and identifying sizes, pairs and missing parts.

Sequencing covers matching symbols, positional language, sequencing events and letter matching.

Learning the alphabet deals exclusively with learning letter names (not sounds). The concept of vowels and upper and lower case letters is also explored, and an opportunity for revision is available at the end of the section.

Each of these areas includes interactive tutorials to introduce key concepts and numerous exercises to test students’ knowledge and application.

Phonics

The phonics content in LiteracyPlanet incorporates both an analytic and a synthetic phonics approach to target the early primary years.

The key steps to reading acquisition are followed:

1. Phonemic awareness 2. Blending3. Basic sight vocabulary 4. Double letter sounds 5. Long vowel rules6. Soft ‘c’and ‘g’7. Complex double letter sounds (diphthongs) 8. Vowel sounds with ‘r’9. Silent letters

Each new letter sound correspondence is introduced via a tutorial, followed by interactive exercises to test students’ understanding and application.

Sight Words

Sight words constitute two-thirds of all vocabulary in early reading and about half of all adult reading material.

LiteracyPlanet’s sight word section features two categories of words: Common Sight Words and More Sight Words. The 720 words listed under Common Sight Words include the 220 Dolch Words and other commonly occurring words in children’s literature. The section titled More Sight Words was compiled by Macquarie University’s Department of Cognitive Science based on studies into sight word acquisition. More than 1,400 words are covered by these two categories.

All sight word lists are available on the LiteracyPlanet site, or teachers can create their own.

Spelling

LiteracyPlanet offers a variety of spelling categories and word lists for years Foundation to Year 8.

The latter years spelling lists are predominantly made up of phonemic word grouping, word family groupings, prefix and suffix groupings, conventional spelling and etymological groupings.

Students are able to click on the sentence speaker in the toolbar to hear the word used in a sentence in word play games. There are 14 word play games to help students identify, familiarise and learn their spelling and sight words in a fun and engaging manner.

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Reading Fluency

LiteracyPlanet’s reading section provides students with a range of levelled extracts based on eight categories: Creatures, Disasters, Discoveries, Mysteries, People, Bizarre, Sport and Miscellaneous. With over 400 extracts, there is something to please even the most reluctant reader.

Students can select either fluency mode or reading mode to complete a reading exercise. Fluency mode records the words read per minute as students progress through the activity. Additionally, students can click on any unfamiliar words to hear them. These unfamiliar words are highlighted and voiced when the extract is played back at the recorded fluency rate and the words are displayed in the teacher report. Reading mode allows students to read the text independently. Both the fluency mode and reading mode feature general comprehension questions, in a multi-choice format to ensure that students have read the extract.

Many of the reading fluency extracts also feature in the comprehension section.

Comprehension

The comprehension section features hundreds of fiction and non-fiction extracts, covering a range of genres. These extracts are levelled using seven internationally recognised reading schemas: Reading Recovery, Fountas and Pinnell, PM, Developmental Reading Age (DRA), Rigby, Lexile and Wings.

Students can select from eight categories: Creatures, Disasters, Discoveries, Mysteries, People, Bizarre, Sport and Miscellaneous. The questions that follow each extract target three key comprehension skills: literal, inferential, and metacognitive. These skills are targeted using twelve strategies for reading processing: main idea, facts and details, sequencing, cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, predicting, words in context, conclusions and inferences, fact and opinion, author’s purpose, figurative language, and summarising.

Many of the texts in the comprehension section also feature in the reading fluency section.

Grammar and Punctuation

LiteracyPlanet’s grammar section includes over 500 exercises, and content covers the early primary years to senior schooling.

Key concepts covered include: parts of speech, vocabulary, phrases, clauses, types of sentences, punctuation, and proof reading and editing.

Students have the assistance of a grammar tip in each exercise, coupled with three examples, which are located in the tool bar. Each grammar tip provides a definition of the exercise to help students understand what they are being asked to do, to allow for a more independent learning experience.

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Year 3 (Age 8-9)

The Fluent Reader and Writer

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Year 3: The Fluent Reader and WriterMatching ACARA Content

DescriptorsStrand / Elaborations

Reading Fluency Skills

The learner will listen to a model of fluent reading of texts repeatedly and then re-read the texts independently increasing their reading rate. Learn to recognise by sight, words that are used in high frequency in texts.

ACELY1679 Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting.

Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; navigate, read and view learning area texts. Text knowledge: use knowledge of text structures; use knowledge of text cohesion. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures; use knowledge of words and word groups. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary; use spelling knowledge.

ACELA1486 Recognise and know how to write most high frequency words including some homophones.

Literacy Elements addressed: Word knowledge: use spelling knowledge

Phonics Learn to blend and join two and three letters together to make all the various sounds in the English language.

ACELA1485 Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words.

Literacy Elements addressed: Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary; use spelling knowledge.

Comprehension Read texts such as short stories, information and scientific reports, biographies, myths & legends, folk tales, magazine articles, persuasive texts, instructions. Answer questions with a focus on the comprehension strategies: main idea; facts and details; sequencing; cause and effect; comparing and contrasting; inferring and drawing conclusions.

ACELA1475 Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning.

Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary. Visual knowledge: understand how visual elements create meaning.

ACELY1675 Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view.

Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; navigate, read and view learning area texts; listen and respond to learning area texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating: compose texts; compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts; use language to interact with others. Grammar knowledge: express opinion and point of view. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.

ACELY1679 Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting.

Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; navigate, read and view learning area texts Text knowledge: use knowledge of text structures; use knowledge of text cohesion. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures; use knowledge of words and word groups. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary; use spelling knowledge.

ACELY1680 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features.

Literacy Elements addressed: Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing: comprehend texts; navigate, read and view learning area texts; listen and respond to learning area texts; interpret and analyse learning area texts. Text knowledge: use knowledge of text structures; use knowledge of text cohesion. Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures; use knowledge of words and word groups; express opinion and point of view. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary. Visual knowledge: understand how visual elements create meaning.

Spelling Learn to spell words that have two-letter and three-letter combinations at the beginning, the end or in the middle of the words. The learner will learn to spell words with the same prefixes and suffixes. The learner will learn to spell words with multi-syllables.

ACELA1485 Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words.

Literacy Elements addressed: Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary; use spelling knowledge.


Learn about exclamation marks, complex sentences, subjects, collective nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, commands, statements and questions.

ACELA1482 Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating, and that these processes are anchored in time through tense.

Literacy Elements addressed: Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of sentence structures; use knowledge of words and word groups.

ACELA1484 Learn extended and technical vocabulary, and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs.

Literacy Elements addressed: Grammar knowledge: use knowledge of words and word groups; express opinion and point of view. Word knowledge: understand learning area vocabulary.

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Phonemic rules

Soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ / long vowels - 1

Soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ rule

Soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ and more long vowel sounds

Reading Decoding Phonemic Segmenting Tutorial - introduction of the phonemes produced when ‘c’ and ‘g’ followed by a vowel - soft sounds

Phonemic rules




Reading Fluency Sight words

Word recognition

Match the spoken word to the written word - ccvcv words with soft sounds ‘c’ & ‘g’

Phonemic rules





Word recognition

Match the spoken word to the written word- ccvcv words with soft sounds ‘c’ & ‘g’

Phonemic rules


Type missing letters

Type in the missing letters

Writing Encoding Phonemic Segmenting Identify the missing phoneme and choose the correct graphemes to complete the words to match the picture soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ and long vowels /y/

Phonemic rules



Click on the correct word

Reading Decoding Phonemic Segmenting Select the correct word to match the picture and spoken word - soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ and long vowels /y/ (x 2 exercises)

Phonemic rules





Word recognition

Match the spoken word to the written word - ccvcv words with soft sounds ‘c’ & ‘g’ (x 2 exercises)

Phonemic rules


Soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ rule/long vowels

Type in the missing letters

Writing Encoding Phonemic Segmenting Identify the missing blend and choose the correct graphemes to complete the words soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ and long vowels /y/

Phonemic rules


Word for the picture

Click the word for the picture

Writing Grammar Parts of speech

Nouns Plurals Plurals with an ’s’ - select the correct ccvc word to match the picture and spoken word - soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ and long vowels /y/

Phonemic rules


Word for the picture

The ape in the cage

Reading Decoding Fluency Phonemic Prosodic reading

Listen to model of prosodic reading; use reading strategy of stretching out ccvcv words with soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ and long vowels /y/

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SpellingFind a comprehensive selection of spelling lists on the LiteracyPlanet website, or create your own.

Exercise Literacy Knowledge and Skill Focus Description

Alphabetical Word Monster

Reading Decoding Graphic Categorising Select the words in the correct alphabetical order

Word Order Reading Decoding Graphic Categorising Select the words in the correct alphabetical order

Static Words Reading Decoding Graphic Word recognition

Game - identify the written word that matches the spoken word.

Word Snap Reading Decoding Graphic Word recognition

Game - identify the pairs of written words

Floating Words Reading Decoding Graphic Word recognition

Game - identify the written word that matches the spoken word

Word Finder Reading Decoding Graphic Word recognition

Game - identify the written words in a word find puzzle

Sentence Jumble Reading Decoding Graphic Word recognition

Game - listen to the spoken words and organise the corresponding written words into the correct word order

Word Builder 1 Writing Encoding Graphic Blending Build the correct word by choosing the correct grapheme and position to spell words

Word Builder 2 Writing Encoding Phonemic Blending Build the correct word by choosing the grapheme from the keyboard and typing it to spell words

Spell this Word Writing Encoding Phonemic Segmenting Listen to the spoken word, segment the phonemes and choose the correct graphemes from the keyboard to spell the words

Dictation Writing Encoding Phonemic Segmenting Listen to the spoken word, segment the words and choose the correct graphemes from the keyboard to spell the words and reproduce the spoken sentences

Flash Card Writing Encoding Word recognition

Practise spelling the words from visual memory using the look, cover, write, check strategy

Memory Game Reading Fluency Graphic Word recognition

Game - identify the pairs of written words from memory

Jigsaw Writing Encoding Phonemic Blending Build the correct word by choosing the correct pairs of grapheme to spell words

Reading Fluency

Reading Fluency: Year 3 Levelled Readers

Creatures Disasters Discoveries Mysteries People Bizarre Sport Miscellaneous

Eels Goldie Hits the Pillow

Big Ben The Clock that Stopped

Baba Yaga Disappearing Choppers

Badminton Camels in Australia

Land Fish Spot and the Chooks

Sandwiches Picnic at Hanging Rock

Evel Knieval Scar Club Boules Why Do We Have Skin?

Sea Horses Colossus The Moon - 1 A Town Called “Fireplace”

Hercules and the King

Bobby Going For Gold

Science and Sport

The Black Rhinoceros

Earthquakes Water Divining

Roanoke Island J. K. Rowling Kangaroo Dog Hurling Too Long in the Car

Why Do Tigers Have Stripes?

Hindenberg Wellingtons The Elmore Rider - Part 1

Samson Roman Toilets Javelin Throwing

North and South Poles

Bears The Vasa Clay Army The Elmore Rider - Part 2

Alexander Graham Bell

The Catherine Wheel

Archery Poisonous Frogs

In Search of Salt Toads Crossing Gold Fever The Man in the Mask

The Beatles Caving The Biro

Musk Oxen Cyclone Tracy Seeing Things Houdini the Escape King

Kabaddi Icebergs

Which Dog is Which?

Lost Power Solar Eclipses Ancient Greek Boys

Sailing Teddy Bears

Bats The Moon - 2 Banjo Paterson Sleds and Sled Dogs

The Arctic Circle

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Creatures Disasters Discoveries Mysteries People Bizarre Sport Miscellaneous

Chameleons Chopsticks The Inuit Motocross The Moon

Goannas Digging Up Dinosaurs

Mother Teresa Sky Surfing Toys

The Pygmy Hippopotamus

The First Needle

Neil Armstrong Street Luging

The Lone Tiger Tinned Food Wakeboarding

Water Skiing

Comprehension

Topic Title Text Type Genre

Reading Recovery

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Fountas/ Pinnell

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Word Count

Creatures Seahorses Report Information report

23 N 30 18 500 Extension 1

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Creatures The Red Pandas of Chengdu

Narrative Short story 23 N 30 18 500 Extension 1

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Creatures Musk Oxen Report Information report

24 O 34 19 600 Extension 1

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Creatures Chameleons Report Information report

25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Disasters Just Plain Bad Luck

Recount Story 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Disasters Spot and the Chooks


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Disasters Wouldn’t You Know It


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Discoveries Discovery Under the Date Palm Tree

Narrative Short story 24 O 34 19 600 Extension 1

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Discoveries The Frisbee Is Invented

Recount Biography 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Discoveries The Moon Report Information report

25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Mysteries The Devil’s Hole Cave

Narrative Legend 24 O 34 19 600 Extension 1

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Mysteries The Lost Dutchmen Mine

Narrative Legend 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Mysteries The Lost City of Atlantis

Narrative Legend 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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People The Escape King

Recount Biography 23 N 30 18 500 Extension 1

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People Baba Yaga Narrative Folk tale 23 N 30 18 500 Extension 1

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People Mother Theresa

Recount Biography 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Bizarre Larry’s Lavatory


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Bizarre Elephants Never Forget


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Strategies covered: main idea (MI), predicting (P), author’s purpose (AP), compare and contrast (CC), facts and details (FD), conclusions and inferences (CI), words in context (WC), sequencing (S), fact and opinion (FO), cause and effect (CE), figurative language (FL) and summarising (S).

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Reading Recovery

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Developmental Reading Age

(DRA)Rigby Lexile Wings

Word Count

Bizarre Dance Din Narrative Short story 24 O 34 19 600 Extension 1

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Bizarre Sharyn Is Missing

Narrative Short story 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Bizarre Disappearing Choppers

Narrative Short story 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Sport Sky Surfing Explanation Magazine article

24 O 34 19 600 Extension 1

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Sport Javelin Throwing

Explanation Essay 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Sport Kabaddi Procedure Instructions 25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Sport Cockroach Contest


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Miscellaneous Uniforms Make the School

Exposition Opinionative essay

24 O 34 19 600 Extension 1

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Miscellaneous A Dog With a Job

Report Information report

24 O 34 19 600 Extension 1

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Miscellaneous The Arctic Circle

Report Information report

25 P 38 20 600 Extension 1

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Rhyming words

Matching words that rhyme

Rhyming words in sentences - 2

Reading Decoding Phonological Segmenting Rhyming Choose a word that rhymes with a word in the sentence

Rhyming words

Matching words that rhyme

Rhyming words in sentences - 3

Reading Decoding Phonological Segmenting Rhyming Choose a word that rhymes with a word in the sentence

Numbers Written numbers

Numbers in written form - 8

Reading Decoding Sight words Word recognition

Numbers Select the written word name that matches the number









Numbers Currencies Typing dollars in written form - 4

Writing Grammar Style Abbreviations Currencies Type the dollars in written form

Numbers Currencies Typing dollars in written form - 5

Writing Grammar Style Abbreviations Currencies Type the dollars in written form

Numbers Abbreviations Number abbreviations - 1


Numbers Select the number that matches the written word name - ordinal numbers and currencies

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