The SPELD NSW Spelling Series

Teaching Long Vowels: Not everything all at once

Teaching students how to spell words with long vowels can be tricky. In this course, we show you great tips and tricks to simplify spelling instruction to make it more effective and targeted. We don’t want you to have to teach 8 spellings for the /ay/ phoneme! So, what do you do instead? Join us and we will show you!

  • This series of online courses is perfect for teachers, interventionists and speech pathologists looking to develop their own spelling content knowledge and learn some explicit instruction routines to confidentially teach students to become fluent writers!

  • In this series, we will learn about clever planning tricks, key spelling rules, orthographic patterns, morphology, and instructional routines that will make teaching spelling simple yet effective!

  • Register for 1, 2 or all of these online courses and complete the professional learning when and where it suits you!

Professional learning, when and where it suits you!

You can register to complete self-paced professional learning as an individual learner.

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SPELD NSW Members access discounts

Members can access SPELD NSW Member Discounts to this self-paced professional learning by logging into the SPELD NSW Members Hub.

  • $90.00 – SPELD NSW Member Individual Registration
  • $475.00 – SPELD NSW Member School Team Registration

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Course Outline

    1. Welcome to Teaching Long Vowels: Not everything all at once

    2. Acknowledgment of Country

    3. Course Overview

    4. Who is this learning for?

      FREE PREVIEW

    5. Workbook and Resoures

    1. What do we mean by long vowels?

    2. Complete the Vowel Classification Table

    3. Vowel Classification Table - answers

    1. Identifying and understanding spelling generalisations and patterns

    1. Planning for teaching long vowel graphemes

    1. Teaching long vowel graphemes- Lesson Demonstration

    2. Reflect on your key learning

    3. Course Completed!

    4. Course Evaluation

    5. Do you want to continue the conversation?

    1. When the phoneme /ee/ is written as ie at the end of a word- a special group of words

    2. Scaffolding Retrieval Practice of multiple spellings of /ee/

    3. Teaching the Split Digraph

    4. Teaching /ay/ as 'a'

    5. Teaching alternative/less frequent spellings of a phoneme

    6. Teaching /ar/ as 'ar' and 'a'

    7. Example of a daily review

About this course

  • 22 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content
  • 6 weeks access

Would you like to deliver Teaching Long Vowels: Not Everything all at Once in your team or school?

This course is also available for schools and clinics as team professional learning. Your team can complete the professional learning together - watching videos, completing activities, having facilitated discussions and following along with the workbook! Great for after school or team professional learning sessions.

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