Choosing a robust SHORT STORY for English/ELA Class - What I Look for!

The Creator's Context - English teachers' guide to embedding it into your class text study

Teaching literary TROPES in your class text studies - English teacher help

NZ English curriculum - PHASE 4 - A bit of an overview and my experience and thoughts so far!

NZ English Curriculum - Phase 4 for Years 9 and 10 - help with your department scheme/docs! UPDATE!

Teaching POETRY at High School - tips for teachers!

Explicit Teaching - what it IS...and why it's not really 'a thing'!

PRE-READING ACTIVITIES - Improve reading with anticipation activities - Anticipatory Reading - TIPS!

Playing around with the DRAFT NZ Curriculum document - from CURRICULUM DOC to TEACHING PROGRAMME

What is HEDGING and why is it so important for academic writing like essays?!

Sentence Strips Video

TEACH CREATIVE WRITING - tips and ideas to help teachers get the best descriptive writing results!

Leveraging SYMBOLISM in creative writing to develop ideas and give it purpose.

Teaching DIALOGUE - formatting, punctuating and keeping it real - high school narrative writing

NCEA English - 1.1 Context Shapes Language - My Approach (My 2 cents worth!)

5 strategies to SCAFFOLD your lessons - BUILDING ON to ensure student achievement and engagement

Critical Thinking - summarizing, drawing conclusions, synthesizing, evaluating, and judging texts

Reading literature - 4 terms your students must understand before you begin your book or film study

Teaching High School Writing - two terms we use that students don't REALLY understand

Fitting GRAMMAR into an already jam-packed programme - ideas for English teachers

Sentence Structure Must-Knows - What EVERY student must learn about writing to begin the year!

Teaching the VERY basics of formal writing structure - tips for middle and high school teachers

How to teach close reading at HIGH school - a reading literacy lesson sequence.

Teaching Film as Literature a guide for English ELA teachers

NCEA 1.3 Writing and 1.4 Unfamiliar Texts - Teacher Tips

Annotation - Part 1 - the magic elixir for English teachers

Annotation - Part 2 - A 5-step guide to help you teach and use annotation in your English classroom

Mātauranga Māori in the English Classroom - 1 - Concepts from te Ao Māori

Mātauranga Māori in the English Classroom - 2 - Te Kore - Te Pō - Te Ao Mārama

Mātauranga Māori in the English Classroom - 3 - Ngā Kete o te Wānanga - 3 Baskets of Knowledge

Mātauranga Māori in the English Classroom - 4 - Ngā Whetū o Matariki - the Stars of Matariki

Mātauranga Māori in the English Classroom - 5 - Ngā Atua - the Māori Gods

SETTING in literature is boss! 4 types of setting to teach and excite your students

NZ Curriculum Refresh - Te Mātaiaho - A Beginner's Look!

Making PROOFREADING a classroom routine & 3 habits students must master for writing accuracy

10 Tips for Beginning AND Experienced Teachers

An easy way to teach students to write about TEXT PURPOSE!

The best no-prep writing activity for all year levels - the DAILY DASH!

Lifting the Lid on English Teacher Planning - realities and ideas

Teaching Unfamiliar Texts - 12 Things I Know Now

How every student can achieve academic success - Attainment Goal Testing

DIFFERENTIATION - Differentiate your lessons - an easy and SUSTAINABLE strategy for teachers

How to plan your English programme - everything falls from a central text

Supporting ESL Students in your MAINSTREAM class - 10 EASY ways to differentiate.

Laptop love - Show your laptop you care with three easy habits for laptop maintenance

Planning with drop-down menus and tick-boxes - Google Docs

Embedding & improving literacy at high school WITHOUT bells and whistles. What's REALLY important!

NCEA Review Teacher Help - a strategy to cope with information overwhelm

What the HECK is structure?! Demystifying the convention of structure in English!

Why students should work in exercise books, and why we must mark them!

How aspects of texts work together - and how to teach this!

Maslow - Mātauranga Māori Mashup - Classroom critical thinking with a Mātauranga Māori lens!

Graph your class data easily but MORE EFFECTIVELY with this fun (seriously!) method

A fun activity to help students visualise the writer behind the lines - close reading

QUICK Literacy Activities - common errors, syntax, creative writing techniques

Close reading - writer's tone and audience mood MADE EASY!

Why it's important your students learn to HEAR their writing - a FUN way to help sentence structure!

How to teach possessive apostrophes - a nifty trick!

Unit Standard 1294 Be Interviewed in a Formal Interview - level 2

How just one word helps students write about ideas in their texts - by Drive Resources