LC010 – Assessment and instruction in the Components of Spelling
Assessment and instruction in the Components of Spelling
The complete seven-course professional learning pathway for evidence-based spelling instruction. Explore instructional principles and routines, assessment and differentiation, phonology, orthography, morphology, and Crossmapping to support precise and responsive teaching of word reading and spelling.
Price: $770 • Access: 365 days • Duration: 24 Hours
Course Detail
This complete seven-course package provides a comprehensive and coherent professional learning pathway for educators seeking to strengthen spelling instruction and support word reading and spelling.
Beginning with why high-quality spelling instruction matters, the package develops educators’ understanding of evidence-based instructional principles and routines, assessment, and differentiation. It then explores the explicit teaching of phonology, orthography, and morphology before bringing these three linguistic lenses together through Crossmapping.
Across the seven courses, Dr Daffern combines current research with clear explanations, authentic classroom demonstrations, practical examples, and purposeful follow-up tasks. Educators develop the knowledge and confidence to identify students’ strengths and learning needs, analyse words through multiple linguistic lenses, establish appropriate instructional priorities, and deliver precise, responsive, and interconnected spelling instruction.
This 24-hour package includes:
LC001 – Why High-quality Spelling Instruction Matters
LC002 – High-quality Spelling Instructional Routines and Principles
LC003 – Assessing and Differentiating Spelling Instruction
LC004 – Explicitly Teaching Phonology to Support Word Reading and Spelling
LC005 – Explicitly Teaching Orthography to Support Word Reading and Spelling
LC006 – Explicitly Teaching Morphology to Support Word Reading and Spelling
LC007 – Crossmapping: A Multiple Linguistic Lenses Word Analysis Framework
Course Instructor
Dr Tessa Daffern is an experienced educator, researcher and literacy consultant with more than 25 years’ experience across schools, universities and professional learning contexts. Tessa specialises in evidence-based spelling instruction, with particular expertise in phonology, orthography and morphology, and is committed to supporting educators to strengthen language and literacy learning in their classrooms.
This course addresses AITSL standards 1.2.2, 2.3.2, 1.5.2, 2.1.2, 2.2.2, 2.3.2, 2.5.2, 3.2.2, 3.3.2, 3.4.2 and 3.5.2
NESA Registered PD Provider
Package Contents
7 Courses • 33 Videos • 32 Supporting Tasks
Course access: 365 days from date of registration
This course is suitable for all school educators: early, primary, middle and secondary years.
Strengthen Literacy Instruction with Confidence
Evidence-based professional learning designed to support explicit spelling and literacy instruction in today’s classrooms.