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.

Build maths fitness daily

Each Building Maths Fitness book is packed with 20 weeks of daily maths cards. Aimed at 10- to 12-year-old students, the cards gradually become more difficult as the weeks progress. Each week the types of problems stay the same, just the numbers change. During the course of the week the students will gain confidence and show progress with their learning. Answers cards are provided.

JillE books to read aloud

Designed for reading to children, JillE Books are perfect for developing vocabulary and an awareness of sounds and rhymes. The books do this with a mix of highly visual illustrations and layout, rhythmical texts and humour. The award-winning author, Jill Eggleton QSO, is an internationally recognised literacy consultant and teacher.

Making observations like a scientist

Aimed at developing curious minds, this book combines SOLO Taxonomy with current theories on how students learn and effective pedagogies. It investigates the increasing complexity of the science capability of gathering and interpreting data through a series of simple paired experiments in contexts that are familiar to students.

Making poetry accessible to everyone

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. The central mission of this series is to guide and inspire students to reflect, explore and write poems drawing on their own unique perspectives and experiences of culture. Check out the latest book in this series.

Make literacy cool with Story Seekers

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

Be organised, the 2019 Essential Planner is here!

Your personal organiser and teaching guide has arrived! The popular Essential Planner 2019 includes a spacious weekly diary with SOLO Taxonomy tips plus monthly and yearly overviews. It’s packed with relevant teaching ideas for English, mathematics, science, digital technologies and more, along with helpful teacher support templates.

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Identify STEM in children’s play

STEM Detectives guides educators to identify the STEM happening in children’s play, as well as develop the skills to support and encourage a deeper level of exploration and discovery. It discusses why STEM is important and identifies the social, economic and environmental trends that will see STEM thinking become increasingly important in a changing world.

Put media messages under the microscope

With a focus on issues of immediate relevance to students’ own lives, Teaching Media Literacy through Contemporary Issues prompts them to explore who created a message and why, what techniques it uses and what points of view it includes or omits. In completing the activities, students will develop their analytical and critical thinking skills plus help them form their own well-grounded opinions.

Engage all boys in the writing process

Research showing many boys are disengaged from the process of writing has laid down the challenge; Writing Success for Boys responds. Boys won’t be able to resist its inclusive, purposeful writing programme, which puts fun and creativity at centre stage. This resource cleverly connects the dots between boys and literacy, engagement in literacy, the rhythm of learning and master teaching.

Time to get the most out of maths

Designed to build and strengthen students’ skills and confidence, the engaging activities in these titles are just the ticket. Offering a supportive approach that is both systematic and encouraging, they will help embed times table skills, consolidate basic facts, and expand fraction, decimal and percentage knowledge and skills.