understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns, including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphological word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and word origins, to spell more complex 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

• applying generalisations for adding affixes; for example, “hope” – “hoping”, “begin” – “beginning”, “country” – “countries”
• building morphemic word families and exploring word origins; for example, the prefix “nat-” means source, birth or tribe in “nature”, “natural” and “native”