Essential Resources

Our resources are strongly grounded in what works in the classroom, giving teachers lesson plans, tools and strategies they need to make a difference. They support students’ learning through every stage of their schooling, ensuring students excel and can apply their learning to numerous meaningful contexts.

Engaging and of high interest, they are developed to provide students with the skills necessary to become analytical thinkers, problem solvers and idea generators, and to succeed in a multinational work environment.

High-quality support for numeracy teaching and learning in the classroom

Number Knowledge provides high quality support for numeracy teaching and learning in the classroom. Each book has been designed to supplement the classroom programme after a concept has been introduced. The visually appealing activities will help engage and motivate students to develop the related number knowledge.

How to develop curious minds with the science capabilities

Using SOLO Taxonomy to Think Like a Scientist combines SOLO with current theories on how students learn and effective pedagogies. It shows how to develop curious minds in science by accessing learning through the science capabilities, collaboration, citizenship and community. It provides a strong model for what it takes to build students’ citizen-centric scientific curiosity when working for a social good.

Invercargill Middle School national finalist, again!

For the second year in a row, Invercargill Middle School is a finalist in the Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards. Our congratulations go to deputy principal, teacher and author, Katie Pennicott and the school for this huge accomplishment. The exciting news is we have just released Katie’s maths book in the Accelerate Progress series which sets out a well-established reading and mathematics programme that supports students to advance faster in these core curriculum areas.

Building students’ written, visual and oral language

The Language of Personal Expression encourages students to express their own thoughts and feelings on a range of topics, from the deeply personal to the broadest global issues. It offers examples of text that include comprehension questions on content, purpose and audience along with activities analysing the written, visual and oral language features of the text.

How scientists use numbers every day

Students require a broad range of numeracy skills to succeed in science. Like literacy, numeracy is a skill that improves with practice and students are more likely to recognise its relevance in the context of their science learning. Advancing Numeracy in Science makes the link between these two key curriculum areas explicit.

Supporting the mental health of adolescents

Understanding Feelings is all about equipping young people with the self-esteem, resilience and strategies they need to cope with the stresses of our increasingly complex and demanding world. Its straightforward information and authentic activities prompt students to explore their own responses to many of the issues young people face.

Ways to develop students’ understanding of poetry and multiculturalism

Reflecting the great diversity of cultures in the region, Poetry in Multicultural Oceania is enriched with a multitude of Aboriginal Australian, Māori, Pasifika, Asian and other voices in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. This book builds from each poem with a range of activities to develop students’ understanding of the poems themselves and students’ own multicultural contexts.

Expand your students’ English experience with Story Seekers

Story Seekers is designed to lift reluctant readers’ literacy skills through easy-reading, high-interest texts and that can engage learners with a background other than English. Written at a 7-year-old reading level, the chapter books have strong appeal to 10- to 12-year-old readers. The Activity Book has teaching ideas and cross-curricular activities that build on the chapter books.