Spelling Mastery Toolkit
Enhance your school’s spelling instruction with the Spelling Mastery Toolkit – a comprehensive suite of Direct Instruction spelling resources designed to help schools implement effective, evidence-based spelling instruction. This toolkit supports principals, instructional coaches, teachers, and teaching assistants in delivering consistent, high-impact spelling lessons that boost student achievement.
Empower your teaching teams to achieve spelling success. The GGSA Spelling Program provides the tools and frameworks schools need to manage and deliver Spelling Mastery effectively.
Contents of the Spelling Mastery Toolkit
The Toolkit includes:
A full range of Spelling Mastery Data Tools and Forms to support lesson delivery, student progress tracking, and teacher development.
Coaching Schedule Template: Plan and record your coaching program to build teacher confidence and refine effective spelling instruction practices.
Professional Learning Template: Guide and track completion of professional learning modules to ensure all teachers are trained in evidence-based spelling instruction.
Instruction Coach Program: Define the role of the instructional coach in supporting principals and teaching teams to deliver high-quality Direct Instruction spelling resources.
Data Conversation Form: Used weekly by instructional coaches to discuss student progress, address challenges, and plan targeted support.
Weekly Classroom Data Review Report: Enables teachers and assistants to record student progress and raise concerns for discussion with their coach.
Lesson Practice Form: Coordinates peer practice sessions, pairing experienced teachers with new staff for mentoring.
Techniques Observation Feedback Form: Provides structured feedback to improve instructional effectiveness.
Teacher and Student Engagement Practice Form: Helps assess student engagement during short classroom observations, supporting ongoing teacher growth.
Data Wall Guides: Learn how to create classroom and school data walls to visualise student progress tracking and celebrate achievements across cohorts.
More Great Resources to Support the Delivery of Spelling Mastery
Student Progress Tool for Spelling Mastery
The Student Progress Tool is a powerful feature of the Spelling Mastery Toolkit that enables schools to record, track, and analyse student outcomes across Spelling Mastery programs A–F.
Teachers can systematically monitor:
- daily attendance and lesson completion
- weekly lesson progress summaries
- individual student performance and independent work scores.
Instructional leadership teams can use this data to:
- identify students who need extra support or extension
- analyse trends across classes and year levels
- target coaching and professional learning to improve results.
The Teach Spelling Mastery A–F professional learning module includes a dedicated lesson on how to use the Student Progress Tool for Spelling Mastery, found in the Teacher Resources section.
Teach Spelling Mastery A–F
Build your team’s expertise with Teach Spelling Mastery A–F, a free, online, self-paced professional learning module.
This course develops the essential skills and knowledge needed for effective classroom delivery of Spelling Mastery through Direct Instruction spelling resources.
You’ll learn:
- core components of the GGSA Spelling Program
- proven instructional strategies for evidence-based spelling instruction
- how to collect and analyse data to improve student learning outcomes
- practical applications of Coaching Tools for Teachers to strengthen practice and consistency.
About Good to Great Schools Australia
For over a decade, Good to Great Schools Australia (GGSA) has helped schools transform their teaching and learning outcomes using Direct Instruction and other evidence-based programs.
Our resources include:
- professional learning modules for each Direct Instruction program
- practice modules for specific teaching techniques
- modules tailored to special education delivery
- curriculum mapping for Australian alignment
- supplementary resources for Australian context and curriculum requirements.