The Resource Room
Make structured literacy simple with our supportive membership for primary schools
One of the aims of the Resource Room is to help teachers build connection, confidence, and success. To teach well, we have to connect with our students, connect with our evidence-informed curriculum/resources and connect with our own higher purpose for the work. Every one of use teaches because we want to positively impact the lives of children. There is no better feeling in the world than knowing you've gotten students through a rough patch in their learning. To do that, we need confidence in those resources and in our ability to make great decisions for instruction. When we can do this, success is just around the corner.
The Resource Room team is made up of experienced instructional leaders who understand how challenging and overwhelming it can be to:
- create cohesion within your literacy block
- engage students in explicit lessons
- feel confident that your instruction reflects current research
- have clarity as you attempt to connect different sections of your literacy block
- create consistent practice across classrooms while maintaining your teaching style
When you become a Resource Room member, you’ll find everything you need to feel confident – and prepared – to help your students achieve reading and writing success.
From day one, you’ll have quality, evidence-informed teaching resources for the whole literacy block (F-6) at your fingertips.
And – because we know from experience that success in the classroom is about more than just *stuff*...
You’ll also have access to support, guidance and professional learning opportunities.
Access everything that the Resource Room has to offer
for just $16.50 per month
(less than the cost of one coffee a week!!)
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Let us do the heavy lifting for the whole literacy block
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Help your students cement their foundational skills and knowledge –
regardless of your school’s phonics program.
Inside The Resource Room, you’ll find simple resources for Phonics and Decoding right across the whole code, including:
- assessment resources
- partner practice booklets
- printable resources
- alignment to popular decodable texts series
You’ll also have digital access to our phonics instruction manuals:
- Reading Success in Action 1 – The Basic Code
- Reading Success in Action 2 – The Complex Code
- Reading Success in Action 3 – Alternate Spellings
Comprehensive ready-to-use Morphology, Syntax and Parts of Speech resources so you can feel like a pro!
Inside The Resource Room, you’ll find teaching presentations and guidance around morphology, syntax, and parts of speech to support you in building student knowledge and skill.
Research shows that morphology learning is strengthened when students are helped to apply new learning in context. So you have access to reading passages for every one of our units.
And if you’re not sure whether your Year 3-6 students are ready to dive into morphology – don't worry. We have a diagnostic assessment waiting for you.
Text-Based Units for Every Grade
No need to spend hours writing your own Text-Based Units.
Inside the Resource Room you'll find Text-Based Units written for every grade of primary school. They include:
- Background knowledge building texts
- Teacher Guide
- Teaching Presentations
- Vocabulary presentations and guide
- 'Plan on a page' for easy planning
- Integrated syntax and parts of speech instruction
- Alignment to v9 of the Australian Curriculum
The Resource Room Text-Based Units are carefully crafted to provide you and your students with a teaching and learning experience that supports cognitive load.
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The Resource Room membership is about more than stuff…
Professional Learning and Support are Central to your Resource Room Experience
Two four-week live courses every year.
Regular mastermind sessions to help keep you on course
Fortnightly office hours are available for regular live coaching
A value-packed membership loved by primary school literacy teachers
- Access to a range of ready-made teaching resources across the Big 6 of reading and all grades (value $150)
- Digital access to all three Reading Success in Action books (valued at $142 in hard copy)
- 2 x live Teach Along courses each year (valued at $300)
- 8 x live Mastermind sessions per year (valued at $600)
- Time (and cognitive load) saving text based units. These units will save you 8-10 hours of work each (value: relaxing and spending time with family)
Access all the value inside The Resource Room for just $16.50 per month
(less than the cost of one coffee a week!)
The Resource Room’s evidence-informed guarantee
The explicit teaching model is an evidence-based framework for instruction that has been shown to enhance outcomes for a wide variety of students. All elements of The Resource Room support you to create a learning environment of full participation and engagement for all students.
When we promise you that our resources are evidence-informed, we’ve done the heavy lifting for you – which means our team:
- has invested time in reading and reviewing the latest research, or engaging with researchers and academics or people with empirical evidence, so our members don’t have to
- can provide the source of the evidence/research – if members want to learn more or quote the source – they know where to find it
- is aligned in our approach to conducting and sharing research and evidence, so we are consistent in how we use it to create quality evidence-informed resources you can rely on
Supporting cognitive load:
Cognitive load theory provides us with a framework to understand how memory works, and our role in supporting student learning. This important theory, developed by educational psychologists John Sweller and others, outlines key factors for teachers to consider when teaching students to read and write. All of our resources and teaching programs support student cognitive load by breaking learning down into small parts and ensuring that students are fluent before bringing them together to apply to reading and writing.
Teach children to read and spell words automatically:
Linnea Ehri states that the ability to decode new words is necessary to move to automatic reading and spelling. Further, the key to this development is knowledge of phoneme/grapheme correspondences and the ability to blend and segment phonemes to decode and spell unfamiliar words. Children must learn to work with the whole alphabetic code in order for strong reading and writing to develop.
Have confidence in teaching all of the components of reading and writing:
Both reading and writing develop from the building of skills and knowledge in a range of areas, including:
- phonics and decoding
- morphology
- vocabulary
- background knowledge
- syntax
- parts of speech
- text structures
- orthographic conventions
Our work helps you explicitly build student knowledge and skills in these areas to enable children to engage with rich text for reading and writing.
Build student knowledge:
Students who have strong knowledge of the world around them, and how our language works, are well-equipped to build strong skills in both reading and writing. Our lessons and units of work provide you with all you need to build both knowledge and skill across all areas of teaching literacy.