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Spelling Mastery

Spelling Mastery Offer

Good to Great Schools Australia has partnered with McGraw Hill Australia to support educators delivering Direct Instruction programs. We offer McGraw Hill customers Spelling Mastery.

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Curriculum

Professional Learning

  • Deliver Direct Instruction.
  • Teach Spelling Mastery.

School Improvement

  • ACARA Maths Standards to DI Programs mapping document.
Teach Spelling Mastery is aligned to AITSL’s national teaching standards. Participants receive a certificate when they successfully complete the module. This can be used to demonstrate three hours of continuing professional development (CPD) for state or territory regulatory body requirements.

Participants will:

  • Learn the key components of the Direct Instruction Spelling Mastery program.
  • Understand the core instructional strategies for implementing Spelling Mastery effectively.
  • Accomplish basic Direct Instruction techniques.
  • Learn methods for gathering student data and using data to inform instruction.

Module components

Program overview

  • About Spelling Mastery
  • The three approaches used in Spelling Mastery to teach spelling
  • Overview of teacher and student materials included in Spelling Mastery

Prepare to teach

  • How to deliver Spelling Mastery placement tests
  • How to organise a classroom for success
  • How to use the Teacher’s Guide and deliver the script

Engaging students

  • Signals
  • Active monitoring
  • Transitions and pacing
  • Motivating students

Checking for mastery

  • How to structure individual turns to receive important data about student mastery
  • How to correct errors using the scripts in the Teacher Presentation Book
  • How to correct errors using a general correction procedure
  • How to use program and mastery test data to inform instruction in Spelling Mastery

Online and practical assessments

  • Multiple-choice assessment to receive a Certificate of Training
  • Practical assessment to receive a Certificate of Application
  • Practical assessment to receive a Certificate of Mastery