A few years back, when Dr Tessa Daffern working as a classroom teacher and learning support specialist, a brewing sense of ...
Basic spelling assessments are doing teachers, students a disservice: expert
Analysis of students’ spelling skills ought to go beyond basic ‘low’, ‘middle’ and ‘high’ groupings and instead drill down into children’s phonological, orthographic and morphological knowledge, an expert has flagged.
Daffern has developed and trialed her own suite of spelling tests that, underpinned by cognitive and behavioural science, arm teachers with a clear and detailed picture of where students are at.