This assessment includes varied questions focusing on common letter patterns with different pronunciations. It helps gauge students’ ability to recognise, read, and spell challenging words. Designed for middle to upper primary learners.
Use phonic, morphemic and vocabulary knowledge to read and spell words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations
Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations
Draws on appropriate strategies to accurately spell familiar and unfamiliar words when composing texts
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
Recognise and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations