Explore why high-quality spelling instruction matters and how it supports student literacy outcomes. This foundational course provides essential knowledge to strengthen evidence-based spelling teaching practices.

Learn how to design, implement, and monitor effective spelling instruction grounded in Triple Word Form Theory. This practical course provides evidence-based routines, assessment approaches, and planning tools to support high-quality spelling teaching across diverse classroom contexts.

Learn how to use spelling assessment diagnostically to inform high-quality, differentiated instruction. This course explores efficient, evidence-based approaches to assessing spelling, analysing student needs, and using data to monitor progress and support all learners across diverse classroom contexts.

Develop practical, evidence-informed approaches to teaching phonology for word reading and spelling. Through classroom demonstrations and adaptable strategies, this course explores syllables, phonemes, segmenting, blending, differentiation, and connections with vocabulary and grammar across the curriculum.

This 2-part course focusses on teaching orthographic subskills to support word reading spelling. Find out what it means to build heightened orthographic sensitivity and learn how some sub‑lexical conventions can be context dependent, generalisable or explained by their etymology. Find out how orthographic instruction fits within Daffern’s multi-faceted instructional routine known as ART PhOrM™. View a range of demonstration lessons illustrating how to provide engaging and differentiated orthographic instruction to enhance the reading and writing skills of your students. Learn how to connect orthographic instruction with grammar and vocabulary from a range of texts and subject areas across the curriculum.

This 5 part course provides a comprehensive, evidence informed exploration of teaching morphology to improve word reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. Designed for school educators seeking to elevate literacy outcomes, the course unlocks the power of word structure and meaning through explicit instruction, interactive learning, and current research.
In this course, examine how systematic morphological teaching enhances spelling accuracy, deepens vocabulary knowledge, strengthens reading comprehension, and supports sentence level grammar and writing. The course clarifies that morphology and etymology are distinct linguistic components, and that, based on current research, etymology taught as a stand alone construct has no demonstrated impact on literacy outcomes. Accordingly, Dr Daffern explains when, why, and how etymology may be selectively woven into morphological instruction to enrich learning without overshadowing core morphemic knowledge.

Learn how to use crossmapping to help students coordinate phonological, orthographic, and morphological knowledge when analysing, reading, and spelling words. This practical course provides an evidence-based framework, guiding questions, and classroom applications to strengthen vocabulary and spelling instruction.

In this literacy short, you will explore why high-quality spelling instruction matters and what contemporary research tells us about effective practice. This seminar provides foundational knowledge to support informed decisions about the teaching of spelling.

In this literacy short, you will explore how to design and implement a spelling instructional routine informed by Triple Word Form Theory.

In this literacy short, you will explore how Dr Daffern’s four core pedagogical pillars and accompanying principles underpin effective spelling instruction.