Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources and Resource Texts

SPELD NSW has curated a range of high-quality teaching resources and resource texts for teachers and professionals.

researchED Guides

This accessible and punchy series, overseen by researchED founder Tom Bennett, tackles the most important topics in education, with a range of experienced contributors exploring the latest evidence and research and how it can apply in a variety of classroom settings.

PURCHASE THREE GUIDES FOR $60 and ALL SIX GUIDES FOR $115.

Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction
(REED) $24.00
The value and use of explicit instruction to improve academic outcomes is explored across a range of settings and subject areas. Incorporating compelling evidence from the cognitive sciences, the writers include: Kris Boulton; Greg Ashman; Gethyn Jones; Tom Needham; Lia Martin and Amy Coombe; Naveen Rivzi; Hannah Stoten; John Blake; Sarah Barker; Summer Turner; Sarah Cullen and Zig Englemann. Editor: Adam Boxer.

Guide to Educational Myths
(REEM) $24.00
The most damaging myths that continue to circulate in education settings are identified and discussed in this edition by a selection of evidence informed writers including: Clare Sealy, Tom Sherrington, Andrew Old, Mark Enser, Robert and Elizabeth Bjork, Harry Fletcher Wood, Greg Ashman and Doug Lemov. Editor: Craig Barton.

Guide to Assessment
(REA) $24.00
In this researchED Guide to Assessment, Sarah Donarski brings together chapters by Dylan Wiliam, Tom Sherrington, Alison Peacock and many others to consider the debates, critique the strategies and find solutions that not only better the progress of pupils but also assist the wellbeing and manageability of workload for staff.

Bundle of 3 researchED Guides
(REB3) $60.00
Bundle of 3 researchED Guides:
Guide to Literacy
Guide to Education Myths
Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction
for $60 (saving $12)!

Guide to Literacy
(REL) $24.00
What do we mean by literacy, why it matters and what happens if we don’t get it right? An exploration of this important area with contributions from: Kathy Rastle, Rhona Stainthorp, Tom Needham, Alex Quigley, Jessie Ricketts, Kevin and Robyn Wheldall, Kerry Hempenstall and Dianne Murphy. Editors: James Murphy and Tom Bennett.

Guide to The Curriculum
(REC) $24.00
Clare Sealy explores how schools can get the most out of a rich curriculum. Contributions from Neil Almond; Andrew Percival; Doug Lemov and Emily Badillo; Sonia Thompson; Christine Counsell; Michael Young; Ruth Ashbee; and Aurora Reid.

Guide to Leadership
(RELead) $24.00
Claiming that the leadership industry has failed to have the impact on schools that is required, this book takes a fresh view that domain-specific knowledge and expertise is vital to running schools well and argues that we tend to underestimate the knowledge required to do this complex job effectively.In the researchED Guide to Leadership, Stuart Lock brings together chapters by experts including Dylan Wiliam, Jen Barker, Danielle Dennis, Jon Hutchinson and The Reading Ape.

Bundle of 6 researchED Guides
(REB6) $115.00
Bundle of ALL SIX researchED Guides:
Guide to the Curriculum
Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction
Guide to Education Myths
Guide to Literacy
Guide to Assessment
Guide to Leadership
for $115 (saving $29)!

Lyn Stone's books

Lyn Stone’s Reading for Life and Spelling for Life provide accessible guides to understanding how to best develop reading and spelling skills for your students!

Reading for Life by Lyn Stone
(SRL) $34.00
This accessible guide bridges the gap between research and practice, translating academic findings about teaching reading into practical suggestions and ready-to-use techniques.

Spelling for Life by Lyn Stone
(SSL) $48.00
Second Edition! Spelling for Life offers lucid, accessible tools which help to reveal that, when explicitly and systematically taught, spelling is scientific, law-abiding and even elegant.

Word Aware

Word Aware is a structured whole school approach to promote the vocabulary development of all children. Focussed on whole class learning, the resource is of particular value for those who start at a disadvantage – including children with Developmental Language Disorder, Special Educational Needs and those who speak English as an additional language, but it will extend the word learning of all students.

Word Aware 1
(WA) $95.00
Teaching Vocabulary Across the Day, Across the Curriculum Second Edition.

Word Aware 1 is packed full of easy-to-implement activities, worksheets and resources that can be put into practice immediately with individual students or groups, whole classes and throughout the school, and is an effective tool to teach children who speak English as an additional language. The resources contained in this book are photocopiable and contain downloadable materials.

Word Aware 3: Teaching Vocabulary in Small Groups for Ages 6 to 11
(WA3) $70.00
Word Aware 3 is a comprehensive, practical and engaging resource that focuses on teaching vocabulary and word learning skills to children aged 6 to 11 years who have vocabulary learning needs.

Word Aware 3 includes:Takes a highly practical, evidence-based and curriculum-focused approach to vocabulary learning that supports a broad range of learners Includes photocopiable and downloadable planning, intervention and evaluation resources Provides staff training resources and an overview video presented by the authors

Word Aware 2
(WA2) $110.00
WA2 - Word Aware 2: Teaching Vocabulary In The Early Years

This is a highly practical, comprehensive resource designed to support Early Years practitioners in the provision of effective vocabulary development in preschool children of all abilities. It is based on the same theory as the existing Word Aware resource (9780863889554) but is adapted for Early Years. This rigorously tried and tested approach is an outstanding resource that will be an essential addition to any early years' setting or preschool classroom. It is also an important addition to the materials used by speech and language therapists.

Megabook of Fluency

The Megabook of Fluency offers all the latest research on fluency plus dozens of practical lessons and ready-to-use fluency-priming tools, including partner poems, word ladders, and more!

The Megabook of Fluency
(TMBF) $92.95
The Megabook of Fluency offers all the latest research on fluency plus dozens of practical lessons and ready-to-use fluency-priming tools, including partner poems, word ladders, and more!

Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more!

Given the importance of fluency- and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition-the potential is high for improving students' overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.

Sarah Mitchell books

Sarah Mitchell books are designed for teachers, speech pathologists teaching literacy, tutors, specialist support teachers and home school parents teaching structured literacy in primary, or teen and adult struggling readers/spellers.

Ultimate Scope and Sequence for Teaching Structured Literacy
(USS) $59.00
Designed for teachers, speech pathologists teaching literacy, tutors, specialist support teachers and home school parents teaching structured literacy in primary, or teen and adult struggling readers/spellers from Sarah Mitchell.

Assessing Reading and Spelling for Teaching Structured Literacy
(ARS)) $59.00
Suitable for tutors, specialist teachers and speech pathologists teaching Tier 2 (small group) and Tier 3 instruction (1:1), from early years to adults, this ‘go to’ resource is like having a literacy consultant walking you step-by-step through assessment, planning, teaching and reporting.

How to Teach Every Spelling Pattern Ever
(ESPE) $59.00
Want to be the teacher who knows the answer to “Why is it spelled that way?” every time a student or colleague asks? Well now you can be!

Transform your Literacy Intervention
(TLI) $59.00
This book is filled with practical, no-hassle resources that will streamline your teaching from Sarah Mitchell – everything you need is right here at your fingertips.

Jocelyn Seamer resources

Jocelyn Seamer Education provides evidence-informed, easy-to-implement reading and spelling teaching resources that empower educators to help every student become a confident, successful reader and writer.

Reading Success in Action
Decoding 1
Teaching the Basic Code
(RSA1) $88.00
The Reading Success in Action lesson sequence is designed to take the guess work out of making instructional decisions in teaching the basic code.

Reading Success in Action
Decoding 2
Teaching the Complex Code
(RSA2) $88.00
The Reading Success in Action Lesson 2 sequence is designed to take the guess work out of making instructional decisions in teaching the first half of the complex code.

Reading Success in Action
Decoding 3
Teaching Alternate
Spellings
(RSA3) $88.00
The Reading Success in Action lesson sequence is designed to take the guess work out of making instructional decisions in teaching the basic code.

Spelling Success in Action
(SSA1) $88.00
Get started with morphology based spelling regardless of the grade you are teaching.

Reading Success in the Early Primary Years Book
(RSEPY) $79.20
The Reading Success in Action lesson sequence is designed to take the guess work out of making instructional decisions in teaching the basic code.

How Students Learn

How Learning Happens
(HLH) $46.99
How Learning Happens introduces 32 giants of educational research and their findings on how we learn and what we need to know to learn effectively, efficiently, and enjoyably. Many of these works have inspired researchers and teachers all around the world and have left a mark on how we teach today.

How Teaching Happens
(HTH) $46.99
Building on their bestselling book How Learning Happens, Paul A. Kirschner and Carl Hendrick are joined by Jim Heal to explore how teaching happens. The book seeks to closely examine what makes for effective teaching in the classroom and how research on expert teaching can be used in practice.

Closing the Vocabulary Gap
(CVG) $37.99
As teachers grapple with the challenge of a new, bigger and more challenging school curriculum, at every key stage and phase, success can feel beyond our reach. In Closing the Vocabulary Gap, the author explores the increased demands of an academic curriculum and how closing the vocabulary gap between our 'word poor' and 'word rich' students could prove the vital difference between school failure and success.

Closing the Reading Gap
(CRG) $37.99
In Closing the Reading Gap, Alex Quigley explores the intriguing history and science of reading, synthesising the debates and presenting a wealth of usable evidence about how children develop most efficiently as successful readers.

Creating Robust Vocabulary
(CRV) $69.99
Bringing Words to Life has enlivened the classrooms of hundreds of thousands of teachers. Responding to readers' success stories, practical questions, and requests for extended examples, this ideal volume builds on the groundbreaking work of Bringing Words to Life. The authors present additional tools, tips, and detailed explanations of such questions as which words to teach, when and how to teach them, and how to adapt instruction for English language learners. They provide specific instructional sequences, including assessments, for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12, as well as interactive lesson planning resources. Invaluable appendices feature engaging classroom activities and a comprehensive list of children's books and stories with suggested vocabulary for study.

Robust Comprehension Instruction with questioning the Author
(RCI) $75.99
This practical K-12 teacher resource explains the whats, whys, and how-to's of using Questioning the Author (QtA), a powerful approach for enhancing reading comprehension and engagement.

Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension – A handbook
(UTRC) $146.75
The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of reading comprehension in recent years but despite this there is very little written on this vital topic accessible to trainee and practicing teachers.

How Learning Works
(HWL) $83.99
Translate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom.

Other Resource Texts

Evidence-based resource texts for teachers and professionals.

Neurodiversity and the Twice-Exceptional Student – A Comprehensive Resource for Teachers
(NTES) $58.99
Written for busy teachers, this practical manual defines terms, shares examples and provides evidence-based information and strategies to support the teaching of twice-exceptional students.

The Writing Revolution 2.0: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in all Subjects and Grades
(TWR) $57.95
Building on the success of the original best-seller, this new edition of The Writing Revolution adds valuable guidance for teachers seeking a way to bring their students' writing ability. The Writing Revolution is a method providing strategies and activities that teachers can adapt to their pre-existing curriculum and weave into their content instruction.

Primary Reading Simplified
(PRS) $53.99
From the bestselling author of The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading, Christopher Such, this is your essential guide to teaching reading in primary schools.

The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading
(ASTPR) $60.99
The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools from Christopher Such.

Understanding How we Learn
(UHL) $48.99
This accessible guide from Oliver Caviglioli helps teachers to integrate effective, research-backed strategies for learning into their classroom practice.

Bringing Words to Life, Second Edition 2/e
(BWTL) $75.99
Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K-12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

Beyond the Science of Reading
(BSR) $69.95
In this provocative and timely book, education writer Natalie Wexler argues that the best way to end the "reading wars" is to recognise that learning to read is inextricably linked to learning in general.

Beneath the Surface of Words: What English Spelling Reveals and Why it Matters
(BSW) $32.95
English spelling has an undeserved reputation as unreliable and riddled with frustrating quirks. In the pages of this book, you’ll find stories, examples, and explanations that will reorient your perspective and reveal the integrated system that makes sense of the spelling of English words.

SPELD NSW Literacy Resources

SPELD NSW has created a range of free and low-cost, practical resources for teachers, interventionists, parents and schools to use in literacy classroom instruction and intervention. Check them out here!