Effective Spelling - Teaching Guide: Years 5/6

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.

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

Contents

• Introduction
• Spelling Scope and Sequence: Year 3 – Year 6
• Big Idea 1: Morphological Word Families – Related Words Have Similar Spellings
• Big Idea 2: Prefixes
• Big Idea 3: Adjective-Building Suffixes
• Big Idea 4: Derivational Suffixes
• Big Idea 5: Plurals
• Big Idea 6: Useful Visual Letter Patterns
• Big Idea 7: Apostrophes
• Big Idea 8: English Words Come from Many Other Languages
• Big Idea 9: The English Language Continues to Evolve
• Big Idea 10: Proofreading
• Assessments and Recording Sheets
• Teacher Resource Sheets
• Blackline Masters (BLMs)
• Glossary
• References