Oxford Spelling Teacher Handbook F-2

Oxford Spelling is an evidence-based, whole-school program supporting spelling development and best-practice classroom instruction.

Planned and written by Dr Tessa Daffern, Oxford Spelling incorporates the latest spelling research into a flexible and practical classroom resource. This comprehensive series enables teachers to teach spelling generalisations and strategies sequentially and explicitly, and connect spelling knowledge to reading, writing and other disciplines.

Teacher Resources:

• Teacher Handbooks that provide complete support for differentiated implementation of the program in the classroom, along with lesson plans, answers to activities and assessment guidance

Further teacher materials available on Oxford Owl that give teachers easy access to:

• Curriculum mapping
• Assessment templates
• Flashcards for word-sorting tasks and additional spelling activities.

About the Author

Dr Tessa Daffern has contributed to education in many capacities for over twenty years: as a classroom teacher in schools, a teaching and learning specialist, a literacy coordinator, an academic, and is currently Director and Principal Education Consultant at Literacy Education Solutions. Tessa’s PhD examined the teaching and learning of spelling and writing in Australian school contexts and involved almost 1,400 students across 17 schools.

Tessa has scoped, planned and written the Oxford Spelling series to incorporate the best and latest spelling research into a flexible and practical classroom resource that supports educators in delivering best-practice spelling instruction in schools.