Lesson footage
See Suffix Instruction in the Classroom (opens in a new tab)
Reading Universe · Years 1-4 · USA
Real teachers and students working on suffixes in classroom lessons.
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Literacy
Spelling and morphology
How spelling draws on sounds, letter patterns and meaningful word parts, and how to teach it explicitly beyond the phonics years. Here you'll find webinars, podcast episodes and reading on teaching spelling explicitly beyond the phonics years, with morphology, word origins and spelling assessment.
Practices in this area:Phoneme-grapheme mappingSpelling patterns and conventionsPrefixes, suffixes and basesEtymologySpelling assessment
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Demonstration
Phonics: The y rule and the police officer game (opens in a new tab)
Five from Five, with Brooke Wardana · 6:11 · F-2 · Australia
Brooke Wardana explains the sound that y makes at the end of some two-syllable words, then shows a fun spelling game that helps students practise it.
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Webinar
Vocabulary: Lyn Stone's 4-Step Process in the Study of Words (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Lyn Stone · About 1 hour · 2025 · Australia
Lyn Stone demonstrates her four-step process for studying a word in depth, bringing together phonics, morphology, spelling, syntax and etymology.
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Webinar
Building on a Strong Foundation in Phonics, Part 1 (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Mandy Nayton · About 1 hour · 2026 · Australia
Mandy Nayton gives a short history of English, explains lexical quality and outlines teaching that builds spelling and vocabulary in middle and upper primary. Part 1 of two.
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Explainer
Assessing spelling in the early years (opens in a new tab)
Tessa Daffern · 5:23 · F-2 · Australia
Tessa Daffern on assessing spelling in the early years. Useful for early years teachers reviewing how they assess spelling.
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Webinar
Implementing an Effective Multi-tiered System of Support to Teach Spelling (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Tessa Daffern · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Tessa Daffern explains why spelling needs a nuanced approach to explicit instruction and how a multi-tiered system of support for spelling can work from Foundation to early secondary.
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Webinar
An Introduction to Spelling Mastery with Jessica Colleu Terradas (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Jessica Colleu Terradas · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Jessica Colleu Terradas introduces the Direct Instruction program Spelling Mastery, how it combines phonemic, morphemic and whole-word teaching, and what schools considering it should know.
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Webinar
Morphology and spelling, with Lyn Stone (opens in a new tab)
The Reading League Illinois, with Lyn Stone · About 1 hour 30 minutes · USA
Lyn Stone presents on morphology and spelling for The Reading League Illinois. A long session for teachers wanting to deepen their knowledge of how words are built.
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Webinar
Alison Clarke: Spelling (opens in a new tab)
Learning Difficulties Australia, with Alison Clarke · About 1 hour · Australia
Melbourne speech pathologist Alison Clarke presents on spelling for Learning Difficulties Australia. Relevant to anyone supporting students whose spelling lags behind their reading.
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Webinar
Dr Alison Madelaine: Rethinking Tier 1 spelling instruction (opens in a new tab)
Five from Five, with Alison Madelaine · About 1 hour · Australia
Dr Alison Madelaine's guest presentation for Five from Five on rethinking classroom spelling teaching. Strong Tier 1 spelling is the first support for students with written expression difficulties.
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Webinar
Dr Tessa Daffern: Assessment-informed practices in teaching spelling (opens in a new tab)
Learning Difficulties Australia, with Tessa Daffern · About 1 hour 10 minutes · Australia
Tessa Daffern presents for Learning Difficulties Australia on using assessment to guide the teaching of spelling.
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Webinar
What Comes After Phonics? Building Deep Lexical Quality Through Word Study (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Mandy Nayton · 30 to 60 minutes · 2026 · Australia
Mandy Nayton's second session looks at teaching complex vocabulary from Year 3 onwards, using morphemes, word origins and lexical quality to strengthen spelling and comprehension.
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Webinar
The Best Word List is a Book! (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Lyn Stone · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Lyn Stone explains why she never issues word lists and how the books students are reading can supply the words for spelling and vocabulary teaching.
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Reviewing a spelling approach
S7 E7 Why Your Spelling Approach Might Be Working Against You (Part 1) (opens in a new tab)
The Structured Literacy Podcast · with Jocelyn Seamer
Jocelyn Seamer explains how spelling that is not automatic takes up working memory students need for writing, especially in upper primary and early secondary.
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Reviewing a spelling approach
S7 E8 Why Your Spelling Approach Might Be Working Against You (Part 2) (opens in a new tab)
The Structured Literacy Podcast · with Jocelyn Seamer
Part two turns practical, with Jocelyn Seamer explaining how to plan spelling instruction for the real mix of spellers in upper primary and early secondary classes.
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Evaluating spelling instruction
S7 E10 How to Evaluate Spelling Instruction (opens in a new tab)
The Structured Literacy Podcast · with Jocelyn Seamer
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Explicit spelling in 3 to 6
S4 E4 Connecting Explicit Teaching and Engagement in Years 3 to 6 Spelling (opens in a new tab)
The Structured Literacy Podcast · with Jocelyn Seamer
Jocelyn Seamer shows how spelling lessons in Years 3 to 6 can be both explicit and engaging, challenging the idea that structured teaching must be dull.
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Explicit spelling
S3 E19 How to Make Sure That Your Spelling Instruction Is Explicit (opens in a new tab)
The Structured Literacy Podcast · with Jocelyn Seamer
Jocelyn Seamer reviews the key features of explicit instruction and explains why some common spelling practices are less explicit than they first appear.
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Morphology
How Do I Fit Morphology Into My Literacy Block? (opens in a new tab)
The Structured Literacy Podcast · with Jocelyn Seamer
Jocelyn Seamer shares tips for finding time for morphology in a crowded literacy block, in both the early years and upper primary.
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Morphology instruction boosts reading and spelling skills (opens in a new tab)
The Educator · News report on research · Australia
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Making Sense of Morphemes: Prioritize Progressions (opens in a new tab)
Harriett Janetos (Making Words Make Sense) · Substack · 2025 · USA
Sets out what, when and how to teach morphemes, arguing for a clear progression from early sound-based spelling to prefixes, suffixes and roots as children's reading develops.
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Morphology at Jolimont Primary (Word Origins) (opens in a new tab)
Jolimont Primary School · School case study · Australia
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How to get primary students excited about spelling (opens in a new tab)
Teacher magazine (ACER) · Article · Australia
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How Spelling Supports Reading: And why it is more regular and predictable than you may think (opens in a new tab)
Louisa Moats, American Educator · Article · USA
Louisa Moats on how spelling supports reading, and why English spelling is more regular and predictable than many people think. The article downloads as a PDF from this page.
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How Words Cast Their Spell: Spelling is an integral part of learning the language, not a matter of memorization (opens in a new tab)
Malatesha Joshi, Rebecca Treiman, Suzanne Carreker and Louisa Moats, American Educator · Article · USA
Four researchers make the case that spelling is an integral part of learning the language and not a matter of memorising. The article downloads as a PDF from this page.
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Orthographic Skeletons: Can Children Start Learning How Words Are Spelled Before They've Seen it in Print? (opens in a new tab)
Carl Hendrick (The Learning Dispatch) · Substack · 2026 · UK
Hendrick explains research suggesting children form an early guess at a word's spelling from hearing it, which helps explain why oral vocabulary supports later reading and spelling.
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The Friday Fiasco: Why the Weekly Spelling Test is a Pedagogical Dead End (opens in a new tab)
Jen O'Sullivan · Substack · 2026 · International
An Irish literacy lecturer explains why the weekly spelling list and Friday test measure short-term recall, and offers alternatives built on phonology, morphology and word sorts.
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Rethinking Reading: A Look at Linguistic Phonics (opens in a new tab)
Harriett Janetos (Making Words Make Sense) · Substack · 2026 · USA
An introduction to linguistic phonics, which starts from the sounds of speech and maps them to spellings, and how practices such as encoding before decoding might simplify early teaching.
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Voices 2
Lyn Stone (opens in a new tab)
Blog · Australia
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Jocelyn Seamer (opens in a new tab)
Blog and podcast · Australia
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