This handy display has been created to help students become familiar with the 44 phonemes in spoken English. A fantastic guide for teachers and students alike.
Understand how to use and apply phonological and morphological knowledge to read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter combinations, including a variety of vowel sounds and known prefixes and suffixes
Segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)
Orally manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words (phonological awareness)
Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words and use knowledge of blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and phoneme substitution to read and write words
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words
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
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
Use knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to read and write words whose spelling is not completely predictable from their sounds, including high-frequency words
Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words
Manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words
Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writing
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words
Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
Use knowledge of letter patterns and morphemes to read and write high-frequency words and words whose spelling is not predictable from their sounds
Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable
Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter– sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Sustains independent reading with accuracy, automaticity, rate and prosody suited to purpose, audience and meaning
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends
Understand how to use letter–sound relationships and less common letter combinations to spell words
Understand how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters
Use visual memory to write high-frequency words and words where spelling is not predictable from the sounds
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Identify all Standard Australian English phonemes, including short and long vowels, separate sounds in clusters
Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution
Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words
Identify the separate phonemes in consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of syllables
Recognise most letter–sound matches including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel digraphs and common long vowels, and understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations