2011 Catalogue - McGraw-Hill Education Australia & New Zealand

Direct Instruction/SpellingSpelling MasteryGRADES1–6Interventionto Year 10In just 15–20 minutes a day, you can teach your students thestrategies they need to become successful lifelong spellers andgive them the confidence to tackle challenges such as nationaltesting. Spelling Mastery is a research-based program thatemploys the Direct Instruction (DI) method to enable teachersto deliver highly interactive, structured lessons that help theirstudents learn dependable spelling skills.Spelling Mastery has identified three approach strategies—phonemic, morphemic and whole-word—that enable studentsto learn about the relationship between sounds, word parts andspelling patterns, and apply these principles to their writing.The phonemic strategy helps beginner spellers to:n Use sound-symbol correspondence as a foundation forspellingn Generalise the spelling of many words and word parts thatfollow regular patternsThe morphemic strategy teaches more advanced students to:n Spell meaningful prefixes, suffixes and word basesn Combine words and word parts to spell multisyllabic wordsusing a small number of reliable rulesThe whole-word approach helps students at all levels to:n Spell common, high-frequency words which are irregular intheir letter soundsn Commit these potentially troublesome words to memoryThe DI method used by Spelling Mastery goes beyond rotememorisation to help you make a measurable difference inclassroom achievement—studies have shown that SpellingMastery is able to raise the spelling skills of students by at leastone year above their grade level norms, with these gains beingretained for longer.ComponentsTeacher Materials include:n 1 Teacher Presentation Bookn 1 Copy of the Instructional SoftwareN.B. Software is not essential to the running of theprogram, but is an excellent bonus resource.Key Featuresn Concentrated strategy instruction reduces the number ofwords students need to memorisen Systematic review of every skill, pattern and rule ensurelong-term retentionn Instructional software provides a customised course of studytailored to each student’s individual needsn Ideal preparation for national testingWhat Teachers Are Saying‘We have been implementing the Spelling Mastery Programacross Years 1 to 6 for the past 10 years, with great success.The spelling ages of our students have improved dramaticallyin recent years, and our NAPLAN test results indicate a highlevel of achievement in spelling compared to the rest of thestate. From a teaching and learning perspective the resultshave been very pleasing.’Mrs Michelle LeftwichCoordinator of Teaching and LearningCoomera Anglican College, Queensland‘This year at Emmanuel, a group of dedicated secondaryteachers has taught SRA Spelling Mastery lessons to secondarystudents who are having difficulty with spelling. The studentsare vertically grouped from Grades 7 to 10 and placed at theappropriate level of the teacher-directed, carefully sequencedinstructional program.After only the first five months of tuition, the results havebeen impressive. Of the 38 students participating, 13% haveimproved their spelling ages by over four years, 15% by overtwo years, and 23% by over one year.’Gayle GoninonLearning Support CoordinatorEmmanual Christian School, TasmaniaInstructional SoftwareThis new edition of Spelling Mastery includes InstructionalSoftware with each Teacher Presentation Book. This softwarebuilds individualised lessons by automatically tracking thewords students know and words they need to work on.System RequirementsSpelling Mastery instructional software is not compatiblewith systems later than either Windows 2000 or XP, orMac OS X 10.4.4Phone 1800 646 572 Fax 02 9900 1980 Email cservice_sydney@mcgraw-hill.com