∙ Teacher Resources - Secondary

This is a fully-revised edition of an essential resource for teaching phonological awareness in all classrooms. The book provides comprehensive teacher information along with fun, practical activities for students. The blackline masters, group activities and manipulatives provide a number of different approaches to practising and reinforcing student phonological awareness, and cater to a variety of learning styles. Activities are suitable for whole-class, small-group and individual instruction.

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Comprehension Skills for the English Curriculum Levels 3–4 is a collection of 14 short texts carefully selected from a range of genres – newspaper articles, fiction, non-fiction and poetry – for their appeal to students. Accompanying each text are a number of close reading questions for Year 8 and 9 students. These activities are presented at three levels of difficulty for each chapter. Teachers will be able to identify which specific reading skills need to be taught to target the needs of their students.This Teacher... read more

This handbook for middle schools and secondary schools will assist teachers, departments or faculty groups and school management to focus upon their planning and provisions for gifted learners.

Essential for all Teachers. 305pp. By J. Pope and K. Gillon. There are two parts to the book. The first is a 'Nuts and Bolts' work book of teaching, about meeting the needs of teaching and learning. This section includes the advice, support and practical ideas needed for all stakeholders to feel secure, settled and valued in school. At times it provides an irreverent view of school life designed to weave humour into the seriousness of teaching. The second part is for teachers who want to move from good to great teaching. It... read more

Johnny closed in and gave the Messerschmitt 109 another burst. For a second it stopped in mid-air and then hurtled earthwards in a trail of flame. In over 400 operations and countless dogfights, Johnny Checketts destroyed 14 enemy fighters and damaged many more. Johnny Checketts is remembered as one of New Zealand’s bravest and most highly decorated fighter aces of World War II. Fighter Pilot: The adventures of Johnny Checketts tells the story of his early years in Invercargill, his pilot training near Christchurch, hi... read more

DoP May 2008, Auckland This Teacher’s Guide is intended to provide busy teachers with a resource to help supplement their teaching of Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Links to the new Curriculum for Year 12 and 13 students are provided. A CD inside the back cover provides the complete text of this Teacher’s Guide.

This text is primarily addressed to the practising teachers of language and explains how to conduct research in their own teaching context. A range of different kinds of research is covered from case studies of individuals to surveys and experiments. The background to techniques discussed, cover issues such as the relevance of traditional research criteria, the comparison of qualitative and quantitative methods, the importance of action research and the generation of research topics. Examples of language teaching research are used ... read more

Shipwreck and Survival - Blackline Masters provide extensive photocopiable reading, listening, discussion and research tasks for students of Year 9 and beyond. In addition to these tasks, the Blackline Masters include: general instructions on how to make best use of the book depending on your learners teacher's notes for each chapter answers to student tasks a CD version of the text.

At last there is a practical resource book that answers the questions many teachers have about how to improve student reading comprehension. Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies is a step-by-step guide based on the latest reading comprehension research and is the result of Sheena’s learning journey into research-based practice and her experiences teaching in a real classroom. This book includes information on how to introduce and teach strategies and how they fit into your literacy programme. There is also an extensive range ... read more

DoP 2008, NZ Top Tools for Language Teachers is a resource book that provides a wide range of interesting, enjoyable activities to assist language teachers to engage with and stimulate their students, whether they are learning English, Maori, Japanese, French, Spanish, Samoan or any other second language.For teachers who are new to the profession, this book will be both a guidebook to the types of activities they will encounter in textbooks and a survival pack of instantly useable ideas. For experienced teachers, it will provide a... read more

DoP 2008, New Zealand For those dedicated teachers who want to go that extra mile to help their students improve their skills. Ideally the tools described should be used as a systematic and integrated part of the teaching programme. They can be used by any teacher, can be applied in most curriculum areas and are practical strategic devices that will help students of any age or level of ability.

DoP March 2009, NZ 196pp plus CD The New Zealand Curriculum identifies the Key Competency of thinking in terms of creative, critical, and meta-cognitive processes. These types of thinking are used to make sense of information, experiences, and ideas, to create knowledge, to make decisions, to question and to solve problems. Top Tools for Literacy and Thinking provides teachers with the tools to encourage these types of thinking in their students and so stimulate intellectual curiosity, which is at the heart of this competency. ... read more

Top Tools for Social Sciences Teachers provides busy teachers with an instant and invaluable source of practical and manageable tools to enable them to design learning activities that develop knowledge and skills for their students. The tools are suitable for a wide range of subjects, but will be especially useful for teachers of geography, history and social studies. The book began life as a 'toolkit' for secondary teacher, trainees, who are often asked to plan lessons containing student-centred learning activities when th... read more

Top Tools for Teaching Thinking is a resource for teachers who want to integrate into their teaching programme constructive thinking tools that will help students to gather information and to process and reflect on what they know. The tools will help students: * become independent thinkers * expand their range of types of thinking * develop life-long thinking habits. The tools can be used by any teacher and can be applied in most curriculum areas. Ultimately, it is hoped that the systematic and consistent use of these tools will ... read more

  Waste Chasers provide the tools and concepts that help you to grow profitably by identifying, quantifying, and eliminating waste, and they do it in a convenient, pocket-sized format. Written by the staff of Conway Management Company, Waste Chasers help the reader solve technical and human problems encountered on the path to excellence. The theories and methodologies can be applied to all work processes - selling, marketing, R&D, finance, accounting, manufacturing - anywhere in your business where work is performed... read more