Effective Spelling - Teaching Guide: Years 1/2

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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. 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: 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 Show more