Reading
Find out more about Reading Courses
Teaching Reading in K-2 Webinar Series
This series of on-demand webinars takes some big ideas and packages them up into digestible bite-sized sessions to help K-2 teachers and leaders take the next step in implementing evidence-based reading in their classrooms.
Ready to Read: Explicit Phonics and Fluency in K-2
A practical one-day course that helps K-2 teachers bring evidence-based and explicit reading instruction to life in their classrooms!
The Fluency Puzzle: The next steps in reading from Years 3 to 6
Develop your understanding of fluency and learn a range of strategies to support fluent reading across 1-6.
Vocabulary and Comprehension in Practice
Learn how to build language and reading comprehension through effective (and fun!) vocabulary instruction.
Kick-Start Reading Instruction for 2025
Preparing your team for explicit and evidence-based reading instruction for 2025 with this free webinar.
Decodable Reader Demonstration
If you want to understand the range of phonics readers we offer and how best to match decodable books to your phonics scope and sequence, then join us for this free on-demand course.
UFLI Foundations
UFLI Foundations is an explicit and systematic phonics program that introduces students to the foundational reading skills necessary for proficient reading.
Little Learners Love Literacy®
This workshop is a two-day professional learning course focused on how to teach Little Learners Love Literacy® with fidelity. It aims to prepare teachers to implement evidence-based reading, spelling, phonemic awareness and writing routines in their classroom.
Find out more about Reading Difficulties Courses
Help me Read! Strategies for Struggling Readers
Learn about targeted strategies to add to your reading instruction tool box!
SPELD NSW Teacher Certificate Course
The SPELD NSW Teacher Certificate Course is a highly regarded Professional Learning program aimed at developing teacher understanding of Specific Learning Difficulties and effective, evidence-based instruction in literacy and literacy intervention.
Professional Learning Courses and Webinars on Learning Difficulties
More professional learning courses and webinars about learning difficulties.
Resources to Support Reading Instruction
Phonics and Morphology Scope and Sequence
The SPELD NSW Phonics and Morphology Scope and Sequence for Reading and Spelling. These documents are freely available for schools, teachers and interventionists to use to support their reading and spelling instruction.
Decodable Book Selectors
The organisation of decodable readers in the SPELD NSW Decodable Book Selectors provides guidance about the selection and organisation of the readers from a range of high-quality series of decodable books.
Decodable Readers for K-2 Classrooms and Students
SPELD NSW Bookshop has a great range of high-quality decocdable books for Kindy to Year 2 classrooms and students.
SPELD NSW Member Phonic & Morphology Resources
These Phonics and Morphology Resources have been developed by SPELD NSW for teachers, interventionists, and parents to support students’ reading and spelling instruction and learning.
Blending and Reading Strategies Bookmarks
These free downloadable bookmarks provide strategies for blending, word reading, and word attack for educators and parents supporting beginning and more advanced readers.
Reading Decodable Book video series
In this video series, we address how to read a decodable book and provide lots of practical tips to help you get started on your decodable reading journey.
Knowledge Building Texts
A great range of engaging non-fiction texts to allow students to build their reading fluency, background knowledge and vocabulary from the SPELD NSW Bookshop.
Catch-up Decodable Readers for Intervention
Sounds-Write is an evidence-based highly structured, synthetic, linguistic phonics program utilising an exciting and highly successful approach to the teaching of reading and spelling.