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Thank you SPELD NSW Professional Member Wendy Coggins
Thank you Wendy Coggins SPELD NSW Professional Member for an incredible 30 years supporting children with learning difficulties.
SPELD NSW Interview Square Peg Round Whole
Executive Officer Georgina Perry is interviewed about specific learning disorders on the Square Peg Round Whole Podcast presented by Lou Kuchel.
Seeking a Bookstore Assistant
SPELD NSW is recruiting a Bookstore Assistant. Come and join our passionate, hardworking and friendly team!
Come and Join our team!
SPELD NSW is recruiting two roles at the moment – a Professional Learning Educator and a Registered Psychologist. Come and join our passionate, hardworking and friendly team!
Dyslexia Awareness Month
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. SPELD NSW joins organisations Australia wide and internationally to raise awareness and share resources.
SPELD NSW Booksale
In recognition of Dyslexia Awareness month the SPELD NSW online bookstore is offering a sale for the month of October.
Reading Strategies Bookmarks
These fun downloadable bookmarks provide strategies for word reading, blending and word attack for educators and parents who are supporting both beginning and more advanced readers.
Auspeld Reviews
As part of the recent Review of the Australian Curriculum, Auspeld prepared two submissions outlining a number of issues of concern with the proposed draft curriculum.
Congratulations Vanessa Maher 10 Years Service at SPELD NSW
This month Vanessa celebrates ten years with SPELD NSW. The team estimates Vanessa has helped around 10,000 families during this time.
New South Wales primary schools to receive Decodable Readers
SPELD NSW welcomes the news from Sarah Mitchell, NSW Minister for Education that Decodable Readers will be given every kindergarten class.
Reading Resources to Use at Home
To help families who are supporting students learning at home SPELD NSW share some of our favourite online family friendly resources for students learning to read.
Talking Literacy Webinars – Conversations with International Experts
Exciting and thought-provoking webinar series from AUSPELD, featuring conversations with international experts as they share some of their acquired knowledge, key discoveries and thoughts for the future.
Think Forward Educators
Think Forward Educators – a community of educators – teachers, school leaders, specialists, allied health professionals, parents and researchers.
New position – Office and Finance Coordinator
SPELD NSW is seeking an Office and Finance Coordinator to join our friendly team working full time at our Parramatta office. Apply online.
Sounds-Write Training for Teachers – 6 new dates
Six new SOUNDS-WRITE Training dates just added: Face to Face in NEWCASTLE, PORT MACQUARIE and PARRAMATTA and ONLINE.
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Teaching Reading in the Early Years- a step forward in planning
Many school communities are excited by the new path that the NSW K-2 English syllabus is taking and they are ready to jump in feet first into evidence-based reading instruction. Armed with the understanding that a systematic and explicit approach to reading instruction is the most effective in reaching all learners, many schools are now seeking to understand what that might mean in their context.
Teaching Reading in the Early Years- Why did nobody tell me that!?
At SPELD NSW we have the great privilege of working with teachers at various stages in their careers. In a lot of our Professional Learning and school-consulting work we hear the exasperated catch-cry ‘Why didn’t anyone ever teach me that?!’.
New SPELD NSW Resources – Adjustments InfoSheets
SPELD NSW is pleased to share three new InfoSheets on Adjustments for Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia.
Come and Join our Team as a Professional Learning Educator!
Join the SPELD NSW Professional Learning team and provide evidence-based professional learning, workshops, consulting and resources to teachers, tutors and other professionals, schools and families. This role is ideal for a teacher who is passionate about the science of reading and learning.
Years 1 and 2 Phonics and Morphology Scope and Sequence is now available
SPELD NSW now released our Phonics and Morphology Scope and Sequence for Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2. These documents include the Phonic Knowledge, Fluency and Spelling Outcomes and Content from the new NSW Syllabus for English.
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