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Keep abreast of the latest in literacy and reading science and research with this brilliant Facebook group. Access abundant curriculum resources and collections of readings on the Science of Reading.

Read great blog posts and watch informative videos about best-practice literacy instruction and intervention. Access high-quality, practical resources to assist children with literacy difficulties made by a speech pathologist with years of experience working in the literacy difficulties sphere.

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The Reading League is a global not for profit, based in the U.S., that promotes knowledge to reimagine the future of literacy education and accelerate the global movement toward reading instruction rooted in science.

Deep reading comprehension across a range of text types and content areas requires broad, strong knowledge. Boost your students’ background knowledge with content-rich units on history, geography and much more. A true game-changer for teaching reading comprehension.

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If podcasts are your thing, here’s one that covers an array of topics straight from researchers and authors of quality educational texts. Topics covered include literacy teaching practices, evidence-based instruction, educational coaching and leadership and behaviour management.

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*PhOrMeS is designed to use EDI Student Engagement Norms

Spalding Education Australia provides comprehensive, evidence-based literacy professional learning covering the areas of reading, spelling and writing. Check out their MILA 1 & MILA 2 courses for more information. Also buy the text ‘The Writing Road to Reading’ by Romalda Spalding for more information about this brilliant approach.

*PhOrMeS codes bear much similarity to the phonograms from the Spalding Method and those from LEM Phonics and Write2Read which borrow heavily from this method created by Romalda Spalding. Many of the multisyllabic spelling rules in PhOrMeS are also inspired by the Spalding Method as is the method of representing sounds that codes make by using numbers above letters.