WA2ELAP2

Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and patterns, when blending and segmenting to read and write words of one or more syllables

WA2ELAP2

For example:

  • reading and writing words that contain
    • less common long vowel patterns, such as <ey> they, <eigh> eight, <ea> break, <ie> chief, <y> funny, <igh> right,<o> cold, <oe> toe, <ow> flow, <ew> new
    • r-controlled vowels, such as <ar> star, <er> herd, <ir> bird, <ur> fur
    • diphthongs, such as <oi> boil, <ow> now, <oy> boy
    • consonant clusters, such as <qu>, <spl>, <str>, <spr>, <tw>, <gh> laugh, <tch>
  • blending and segmenting phonemes in words, such as cloudy or brother, as a decoding or encoding strategy
  • decoding or encoding using onset and rime (initial phoneme substitution or rime substitution)
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