Resources

New Zealand resources

• Literacy Online differentiated teaching and learning sequences with a literacy focus across curriculum levels 1-5
• Literacy Progressions: a supplement to the New Zealand Curriculum, providing benchmarks of expected student achievement in literacy
• National Library of New Zealand: an online facility to request books and other resources to compliment units of work.
• The New Zealand Curriculum: online line version of the New Zealand curriculum.
• The Ugly Shakespeare Company: Shakespeare with a difference. Links to a touring group who bring Shakespeare to your school in a way like you have never seen before!

International resources

Links to on-line activities, games and quizzes on various aspects of the English language from the BBC UK:

• GCSE Bitesize English
• GCSE Bitesize English Literature
• KS2 Bitesize English

Other international resources

• Anagrams: online game creating anagrams in a race against time and an opponent.
• AZ Kids Net Brainteasers: brainteasers for fun.
• Eponyms: some fun extension to the English language – Eponyms, what are they?
• Folger Shakespeare Library (Shakespeare for kids): facts, information and games about, and relating to the works of Shakespeare.
• Fun brain: a range of games, including word games.
• Riddles: riddles – it’s in the words!
• Palindromes: fun with Palindromes for all ages.
• Puzzle Maker: create puzzles using vocabulary from your work, including Word Searches and Cross Words, plus many more.
• Roald Dahl: the official website for Roald Dahl fans. Resources and information to supplement learning about the author and his work.

Events

Details of events in literature happening around New Zealand

Student competitions

• English Competitions: competitions for a range of English written genre.
• ICAS English: details of international/national English competitions for students.
• Lids Lit Quiz: literature competition for students aged 10 to 13.
• Short Story: AUT Short Story writing competition.
• Vegemite Spelling Bee: details of a New Zealand Spelling Bee.

Books

• Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies (Eighth Edition) by Eric Frangenheim, published by Rodin Education Publishing, ©2006 Eric Frangenheim: A wide range of strategies to enhance learning in the classroom.
• Word Winks, ©2004 MindWare Holdings, Inc, Illustrations by Tess Zimmer: a wide range of visual puzzles depicting well-known phrases and idioms.

Primary resources

Eberle’s creative thinking tool SCAMPER can be used with students at all levels to plan flexible, open-ended learning activities that generate a wide variety of ideas.

The following resources were developed as part of the Tools 4 Talent Development professional learning programme. A Three-level Reading Guide asks students to identify true or false statements about a piece of text at literal or inferential levels. These statements can be used as the basis for further inquiry or research.

Secondary resources

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