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.

Engaging texts to improve English comprehension

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.

JillE Read Aloud Books and Teacher Guide, Year 1 Pack

Capture students’ interest and imagination with the humorous, thought-provoking stories in the JillE Read Aloud Books! The Power of Story – Read Aloud Guide supports your read-aloud experience with suggestions to get the most from each story.

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Stimulate discussion and develop thinking skills

Thinking about Philosophical Issues offers timeless, relevant and engaging discussion plans and activities that centre on philosophical problems that are by their nature contestable. They are designed to stimulate discussion and help students to develop their skills of discrimination and reasoning.

Develop and enrich students' understanding of poetry

Reflecting the great diversity of cultures in the region, we have just released Book 3 in the highly popular Poetry in Multicultural Oceania series. It’s a teaching resource that augments students’ understanding and appreciation of poetry, as well as providing opportunities for the creative writing of poetry.

Questions that get students thinking mathematically

Open-ended Problem Solving offers a bank of meaningful and challenging activities for the classroom. In using more than one strategy to answer a specific question, young mathematicians also learn that problems can be solved in more than one way and can have multiple solutions.

Ways to think analytically and critically about science

Through a variety of worksheets, games and practical experiments, Book 2 in the Science in the Real World series, helps students to think more deeply about the reasons behind an answer or experimental results. The activities show how their scientific skills apply to many aspects of their lives, not just to passing the next test.