Stop struggling with curriculum overload. Get our brand-new, curriculum-aligned mapping matrices – completely FREE! Planning for the refreshed August 2026 New Zealand curriculum doesn’t have to drain your weekend. We’ve done the heavy lifting for you! These comprehensive, cross-curricular matrices map our growing library of 70+ whole-class School Journal and Junior Journal teaching packs directly –…
Enhance your literacy teaching with these teaching slides that focus on key spelling rules for Phase Three: Year 7-8. These slides are crafted to help you build strong literacy foundations through a structured literacy approach. These Year 7-8 structured literacy spelling rules slides align perfectly with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho – The…
Our Daily Maths Review Slides are a dynamic and effective tool for enhancing memory, retention, and learning. By incorporating principles of spaced practice, interleaved practice, and retrieval practice, these daily reviews offer a comprehensive approach to reinforcing previously taught mathematics content. A great companion to your structured maths programme. Aligns with the refreshed New…
The Persuasive Speech Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that guides students through writing and delivering compelling persuasive speeches. This toolkit simplifies complex concepts, making speech writing accessible and engaging for all learners. How It Works: This toolkit provides a structured, explicit, step-by-step approach to teaching persuasive speech writing. It breaks down the process…
Elevate your Phase 3 (Year 7-8) Writing to Inform: Explanation writing instruction with our comprehensive Writing to Inform: Explanation Writing Activities. This all-inclusive resource pack equips educators with the essential tools for teaching explanation writing. This writing resource is designed to support teachers to teach Writing to Inform: Explanations, from Phase 3 (During year…
We’ve put together a set of reading response activities for the NZ School Journal Level 4 November 2018. This resource has everything you need to dive into the story and articles within this publication. Both a paper-based and digital option is included so you can use this in the way that suits you best…
Explore tools to measure the weather with these differentiated reading passages and science activities. This weather pack includes an informational non-fiction passage, reading and vocabulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom or Microsoft One Drive. These activities are great for your guided reading…
Explore how meteorologists forecast the weather with these differentiated reading passages and science activities. This weather pack includes an informational non-fiction passage, reading and vocabulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom or Microsoft One Drive. These activities are great for your guided reading…
Go paperless with our Context Clues Digital Task Card Activities. These Google Slides activities feature 24 interactive slides for students to work through AND 14 teaching slides. This semantics resource is aligned with the Science of Reading (SoR) and is a great tool for practicing inference skills. This semantics resource is suitable for Google…
This colourful set of Grammar (Parts of Speech) and Punctuation Posters helps students to understand the building blocks of sentences. Laminate these and create an engaging and useful classroom display. These sentence structure activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR). This resource is a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. Activities link directly to…
Explore the fascinating topic of weather with our reading comprehension and science bundle. This bundle includes five differentiated passages, each with a week of unique follow-up activities. This weather pack includes five non-fiction passages, reading and vocabulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom…
Spark excitement and develop persuasive writing skills in your classroom with these six sets of writing prompts and scaffolded writing activities. The activities cover argument writing (write to persuade). They include engaging writing prompts, mentor texts, scaffolded material, and planning graphic organisers. This writing resource also includes in-depth teacher notes. This resource aligns with…
This resource is a comprehension, discussion and activity guide to accompany the novel Cuz by Liz Van der Laarse. Cuz is a children’s novel that was published in 2018 and is known to be New Zealand’s version of Hatchet. The novel is a fast-paced survival story set in the wild landscape of Fiordland. It…
Supercharge your reading programme with this engaging five-pack Reading Skills Check Mega Bundle! Designed for Year 7-8 learners, this resource uses high-interest themes – Food, Natural Disasters, Sports, Insects and Vehicles – to build comprehension, vocabulary, inference, and analytical skills in a structured, easy-to-implement format. Five weeks included! Each pack offers a week of…
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