Sign up for free Teach Spelling Mastery
Join educators across Australia using Spelling Mastery to build strong literacy foundations.
Our free sign-up gives you access to structured lessons, teaching resources, and guidance to deliver spelling with confidence and success.
Individual
- Instruction Coach
- Teacher
- Teaching Assistant
School
- Principal
- Assistant Principal
- Deputy Principal
- Executive Principal
- Head of Curriculum
- Head of Department
Spelling Mastery
Spelling Mastery Australia
Good to Great Schools Australia has partnered with McGraw Hill Australia to support educators delivering Direct Instruction programs. Our Spelling Mastery program is offered to McGraw Hill customers and aligned with AITSL’s national teaching standards.
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Curriculum
Professional Learning
- Deliver Direct Instruction.
- Teach Spelling Mastery.
School Improvement
- ACARA Maths Standards to DI Programs mapping document.
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.
What Participants Will Learn:
- Key components of the Direct Instruction Spelling Mastery program
- Core instructional strategies to implement the spelling mastery curriculum effectively
- Basic Direct Instruction techniques
- How to gather and use student data to guide instruction
Module components
Program overview
- Introduction to Spelling Mastery
- Three approaches used to teach spelling
- Overview of teacher and student materials
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