Skills such as the ability to break spoken and written words into syllables, respond to diagraphs and blends, decode grapho-phonic cues, identify silent letters, notice common prefixes and read common suffixes can be practised at Purple level.

This level also offers readers plenty of opportunities to work with common orthographic patterns such as catch and stitch.

Students will have encountered most of the high-frequency words in the English language by the end of Purple level.