manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words and use knowledge of blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and phoneme substitution to read and write words

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• blending and segmenting sounds in words; for example, “b-r-o-th-er” or “c-l-ou-d-y”
• deleting and substituting sounds (phonemes) in spoken words to form new words; for example, delete the initial “scr” in “scratch” and substitute new initial sounds (phonemes) to form words such as “catch”, “batch” and “hatch”; substituting a medial sound (phoneme) to form a new word; for example, “stack” becomes “stick”