Reading - Professional Learning & Resources
Reading Professional Learning & Resources
SPELD NSW has a great collection of professional learning & resources to support classroom teachers, interventionists and school leaders working to implement explicit and evidence-based reading instruction.
Professional learning courses are designed to support classroom reading instruction and students with reading difficulties. SPELD NSW also provides training in phonics program for use in schools and classroom. Professional learning is available face-to-face, online or on-demand and is suitable for classroom teachers and interventionists.
SPELD NSW also has a great collection of resources to support excellence in reading instruction.
Access a wide range of Reading Learning & Resources
SPELD NSW Reading Professional Learning 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.
Evidence-Based Reading in Action
A one-day hands-on 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 Stage 1 to Upper Primary
Develop your understanding of fluency and learn a range of strategies to support fluent reading across 1-6.
How we Learn and How we Learn to Read?
Explore a range of models and theories that help us better understand how students learn and learn to read!
Kick-Start Reading Instruction for 2025
Preparing your team for explicit and evidence-based reading instruction for 2025 with this free webinar.
Professional Learning about Reading Difficulties
Help me Read! Strategies for Struggling Readers
Learn about targeted strategies to add to your reading instruction tool box! Available as a one-day or on-demand course!
Professional Learning Courses and Webinars on Learning Difficulties
Professional learning courses and webinars about dyslexia, reading difficulties and other learning difficulties.
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.
Training in Phonics Programs
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.
Sounds-Write Courses
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.
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.
Upcoming & Available Reading Courses
UFLI Foundations Workshop – Parramatta
WHEN: 9:00am - 3:30pm,
18 October 2024
UFLI Foundations is an explicit and systematic phonics program that introduces students to the foundational reading skills necessary for proficient reading.
The Fluency Puzzle: the next steps in reading from stage 1 to upper primary – Online
WHEN: 9.00am - 3.30pm,
18 October 2024
Develop your understanding of fluency and learn a range of strategies to support fluent reading across K-6.
Kick-Start Your School’s Reading Instruction – Online
WHEN: 3:30pm - 4:30pm,
24 October 2024
Preparing your team for explicit and evidence-based reading instruction for 2025
The Fluency Puzzle: the next steps in reading from stage 1 to upper primary – Canberra
WHEN: 9.00am - 3.30pm,
30 October 2024
Develop your understanding of fluency and learn a range of strategies to support fluent reading across K-6.
UFLI Foundations Workshop – Canberra
WHEN: 9:00am - 3:30pm,
30 October 2024
UFLI Foundations is an explicit and systematic phonics program that introduces students to the foundational reading skills necessary for proficient reading.
Understanding And Responding to Reading Difficulties, including Dyslexia – Canberra
WHEN: 4:30pm - 6:30pm,
30 October 2024
An introduction to why some people struggle with reading and what we can do to support them in our classrooms and schools.
How We Learn and How We Learn to Read – Online
WHEN: 9.00am - 3.30pm,
8 November 2024
Explore a range of models and theories that help us better understand how students learn and learn to read!
Kick-Start Your School’s Spelling Instruction – Online
WHEN: 3:30pm - 4:30pm,
13 November 2024
Preparing your team for explicit and evidence-based spelling instruction for 2025
UFLI Foundations Workshop – Newcastle
WHEN: 9:00am - 3:30pm,
14 November 2024
UFLI Foundations is an explicit and systematic phonics program that introduces students to the foundational reading skills necessary for proficient reading.
Teaching Little Learners Love Literacy® Professional Learning Workshop – Parramatta
WHEN: 9:00 am - 3:30pm, 2 days starting,
21 November 2024
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.
The Fluency Puzzle: the next steps in reading from stage 1 to upper primary – Online
WHEN: 9.00am - 3.30pm,
28 November 2024
Develop your understanding of fluency and learn a range of strategies to support fluent reading across K-6.