Welcome to Read Write Spell

Melissa is a specialist literacy teacher with over 25 years' experience supporting children with additional learning needs in the Independent, Government and Catholic school sectors.

Melissa has dedicated a large amount of her time towards exploring literacy programs, resources and pedagogy. This has enabled her to understand the underlying reasons as to why a child finds literacy, particularly learning to read, challenging. 

In her tutoring studio, Melissa has carefully sought resources from the Little Learners Love Literacy program and the Fitzroy Method for older students. Not only do both of these programs incorporate a multi-sensory approach that supports the explicit and sequential teaching of literacy skills, including synthetic phonics, both programs have been locally created and developed in Melbourne making them appropriate and relevant to the students of Geelong. 

Melissa is driven by a passion and desire to support children in their quest to gain literacy confidence, skills and knowledge. She believes that all children, given the appropriate support, can learn to read, write and spell with confidence.