use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound 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

• reading words with digraphs where one letter is not pronounced; for example, “knife” and “thumb”, when reading and using them in writing
• providing the sounds for less common letter–sound matches; for example, “ight”, and using them in writing
• reading words with vowel digraphs (“ee”, “oo”, “ai”, “ay”, “ea”)