VC2E1LY03

blend, segment and manipulate phonemes in words (phonemic awareness), including words with consonant blends at the beginning and end, and words with more than one syllable

• making sounds in order to say a given spoken word, for example ‘s-p-oo-n’ and ‘f-i-s-t’
• manipulating phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words (phonological awareness)
• adding, substituting or deleting phonemes in any position in one-syllable words with up to 4 phonemes
• substituting medial sounds in spoken words to make new words, for example ‘pin’, ‘pen’, ‘pan’
• substituting final sounds in spoken words; for example, substituting the ‘t’ in ‘pet’ with ‘g’ to form a new word, ‘peg’