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.

The science behind natural disasters

Offering meaningful and motivating hands-on activities that develop students’ skills in science investigation along with their scientific knowledge, Emergency Science – Surviving Natural Disasters demonstrates clearly how understanding emergency science concepts can literally save lives.

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.

Making healthy lifestyle choices

With the support of Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, schools and teachers can empower their students to make informed decisions about what they eat and do. The series links theory closely to students’ own experiences of food and helps to create the momentum needed for making wise lifestyle choices.

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.

Applying maths knowledge every day

Applying mathematical knowledge to everyday situations and identifying the process or processes needed to solve a given problem are skills that must be consolidated and refined through ongoing practice. Solving Real-world Maths Problems has been specifically designed to put those skills to work in a variety of ways across a wide range of experiences.