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We Teach Australia 🍏 Spelling and Writing made easy for overwhelmed teachers 🍏 Australian teachers and Curriculum Leader 🍏 Group: For Australian Teachers of Writing.

18/06/2026

For many years, spelling was often taught as a list of words to learn for Friday's test.

Today, there is growing interest in helping students understand how words work.

Because when students understand sounds, spelling patterns and meaning, spelling starts to make more sense.

🍏 Want to learn more about why spelling instruction is changing in Australia? Read my latest blog.

🍏 Join my Facebook group to continue the conversation with other Australian teachers. https://www.facebook.com/groups/weteachwriting

18/06/2026

🍏🍏 Next week inside my Facebook group is going to be fun!

We're starting a mini challenge exploring free and bound morphemes.

You will see morphology in action, get some great ideas for your classroom... and there are resource freebies for you too! Available only in the group...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/weteachwriting

It starts on Saturday so come join us! 🍏🍏🍏

17/06/2026

Many upper primary teachers are embracing the shift in spelling instruction.

Rather than teaching long words as individual spelling words to memorise, there is growing interest in helping students understand how words are built.

When students learn a base word and its meaning, they can begin to make sense of many related words.

This approach helps students see spelling as a system of connected words rather than a list of isolated words.

🍏 Curious about what is changing and why? Read my latest blog. 👇

16/06/2026

Spellcheck is handy...it can (usually) identify a spelling error in seconds.

But correcting a word and understanding a word are not the same thing.

When students understand how words work, they have more than a correctly spelled word.

They understand:
🍏 sounds
🍏 spelling patterns
🍏 meaningful word parts

That knowledge supports spelling, reading, writing and vocabulary.

That's why we teach how words work. 🍏

If you're interested in the teaching of spelling, join us in the Facebook group For Teachers of Writing where we explore how words work in practice. 🍏
https://www.facebook.com/groups/weteachwriting

15/06/2026

The more you look at the Years 3–6 curriculum, the clearer this becomes.

Teachers are not being asked to add “more things” to spelling instruction.

The curriculum already expects students to draw on sound knowledge, spelling pattern knowledge and word meaning knowledge when they spell.

The challenge is making sense of how those pieces fit together.

Phonology.
Orthography.
Morphology.

They are not something extra or added on...

They are already embedded in the curriculum for us to teach. 🍏

And that is good news, right?

14/06/2026

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to get your students thinking and talking about Tier 2 words, you will find a fun, weekly activity in my group!

www.facebook.com/groups/weteachwriting/

Each week, over the course of 5 days, I reveal 4 clues about a word.

It is easy for you to use. You print out the clues on A4 paper. Each day you reveal one more clue and put them up where students can see them. Students write their guesses on post it notes and check them against each new clue.

This simple activity encourages students to think about words in different ways, and talk about words that they may not have been exposed to.

Every Friday, I share all the clues as a pdf. You will have a set of new clues ready to print and go each week.

The link to the group is in the first comment! 🍏

12/06/2026

No wonder you're tired...

You simply can't teach your students to spell every single word in English.

That doesn't mean you stop teaching spelling. You just need to teach it differently.

Teach them what actually matters about words. 🍏

Not sure how to do it?
I can help.

12/06/2026

Have you checked out the 2026 shortlisted books?

There are so many beautiful books for young Australians by Australians!

Have a favourite that you'd like to see win? Let us know in the comments so we can check it out for ourselves!

https://cbca.org.au/2026-shortlist/

11/06/2026

If you've heard the talk about the changes to how we teach spelling but you're not really sure what those changes are, my latest blog might help clear that up.

Because it might not be the most exciting topic (there, I said it) but it is something that every teacher needs to be thinking about.

And if you're worried, or overwhelmed, you might just find that you're already doing more than you realise! 🍏

Click 'Learn More' to go straight to the blog! 👇

11/06/2026

Something IS missing... and it’s not just MORE spelling practice. 😂

When students can read words but can’t spell them, it often points to gaps in underlying knowledge.

They may not fully understand:
• the structure of sounds in the word (phonology)
• how those sounds are represented, letter patterns, the rules of language (orthography)
• or how the word is structured (morphology)

🍏All three need to work together.

Without these 3 Word Knowledges, students are more likely to rely on guessing rather than understanding.

This is a common in upper primary but it’s something we can explicitly teach.

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