What is the purpose of the Phonemes App?

The Phonemes App is designed to help teachers deliver engaging and interactive lessons on phonemes, graphemes, and syllables. Aligned with the Australian National Curriculum, it provides a powerful classroom tool for teaching early reading and spelling skills.

Teachers can use the app on their CommBox touchscreen to demonstrate:

• Common phonemes and their single-letter graphemes (e.g. b, a, m)

• Phonemes represented by more than one letter or letter combination (e.g. c, ck)

• Short and long vowel sounds for a, e, i, o, and u

• Single-syllable words with common double letters (e.g. ss, ll, zz)

• Consonant digraphs (e.g. sh, ch, ck) and consonant blends

• One- and two-syllable words with common suffixes (e.g. -ing, -ed)

• Vowel digraphs (e.g. ee, oo, ay, ai, ea, oa, ow)

• Less common graphemes and alternative spellings (e.g. ch/tch, j/g)

• Single-syllable and multisyllabic words

• Prefixes and suffixes (e.g. in-, ex-, dis-, -ful, -able, -ly)

The app encourages student participation by allowing them to come up to the interactive screen and build words, making lessons more hands-on and memorable.

Teachers can also save collections of cards for use throughout the week, supporting consistent instruction and easy revision.