Ready-Ed Publications was established in 1984 with the purpose of creating practical classroom activity student worksheets. At the time, the role of the teacher was becoming ever more diverse with an increasing range of duties and responsibilities within the school and school community. Since then, the role of the teacher has continued to evolve with an escalating range of tasks and obligations, ensuing a reduction in time available to prepare work for the daily instructional program.

Throughout these past 22 years, Ready-Ed Publications has built a reputation as publishers of Australian made, high quality, innovative, timesaving materials for teachers of students aged 5-18 years. In addition, all materials are based on state or national curriculum guidelines or specific age related interest areas and subjects.

Photocopy Masters, or Blackline Masters (BLMs) are now in daily use in education. A key aspect of such materials is that purchase by an individual or institution enables legal photocopying for the purposes of producing multiple copies of activity sheets for classroom use.

In the late 1990s, the company established a presence on the Internet with a professionally presented website which has attracted considerable interest, mainly because of the innovative Internet materials that the company developed for use in the primary classroom. The CyberSchool series, the first of its kind, was first issued in 1997 and has been successfully and comprehensively used throughout schools in Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand since its release. The successors to this series, the Internet Investigator series and the Net Quest series, were both just as popular due to the multimedia-based approach that had been utilised in their design.

Then, as now, Ready-Ed Publications aims to assist busy professionals by making available contemporary classroom materials that contain relevant and stimulating work to support the requirements of the curriculum.