Effective Spelling - Teaching Guide: Years 1/2

Part of the series Effective Spelling.

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Effective Spelling is underpinned by a holistic and inquiry-based learning approach to spelling. The whole-school series is designed to support teachers to foster a culture of word noticing, transforming students into curious thinkers and effective, competent spellers. Each component explicitly aligns with the Australian Curriculum: English and offers educators flexible learning pathways.

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Key Features

Each Teaching Guide:

• comprises ten Big Ideas chapters, each with a key spelling focus
• presents inquiry-based sample learning sequences demonstrating a best-practice teaching routine, which can be adapted for many spelling concepts
• includes activities to support students' understandings of key spelling concepts
• incorporates the key spelling strategies: Sound, Visual, Meaning, Connecting and Checking
• includes thrice yearly Spelling Big Ideas Inventory Assessments (Year 1 to 6), and pre and post assessments for each learning sequence
• demonstrates how to incorporate rich literature into spelling instruction, and includes lists of recommended books that can be used to support student learning

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Contents

• Introduction
• Spelling Scope and Sequence: Pre-Foundation – Year Two
• Big Idea 1: Sounds Can Be Represented by Different Letter Patterns
• Big Idea 2: Onset and Rime
• Big Idea 3: Consonant Digraphs
• Big Idea 4: Consonant Blends
• Big Idea 5: Double Letter Consonants
• Big Idea 6: Long Vowels
• Big Idea 7: Morphological Word Families
• Big Idea 8: Prefixes
• Big Idea 9: Suffixes
• Big Idea 10: High-Frequency Words
• Assessments and Recording Sheets
• Teacher Resource Sheets
• Blackline Masters (BLMs)
• Glossary
• References