This overview of literary tropes will help English teachers add depth for students as they study literature in class.

By the time the last few weeks roll around, most of us are running on instant coffee and resilience. Students are tired. You’re tired. And no one’s in the mood for another close reading assessment. But that doesn’t mean learning has to fall apart. This is actually the perfect time to shift gears and get a bit creative. The pressure is off, the exams are done, and there’s room to try things that are still purposeful, just with a little more breathing space. It’s also a time wh

Debating in the classroom doesn't have to be chaotic in a painful way! Here are six simple ways to make it work when it's the LAST thing you want to tackle!

A few tips for teaching poetry - manageable and guaranteed to help make poetry more accessible and enjoyable to you and your students!

How to make the most of Halloween without sapping your energy or losing control of the classroom.

Explicit teaching - what it is and why it's not really a 'thing'!

Pre-Reading - Build confidence with anticipation activities. Suggestion, hacks, examples for teachers.

Help your students with their academic writing by introducing them to hedging - the cautious language that helps with formality and expression in essays, reports and other formal texts.

Genre isn't just for reading - why it belongs in your WRITING lessons too!

Here's a nifty trick to help with shocking sentence structures - teachers this will improve students writing for SURE!

10 Tips to Help You Teach Creative Writing are here. We cover personal voice, sentence structures, the senses, focusing on a moment (this is descriptive writing, not a novel), embedding symbolism, leveraging dialogue to develop a character, avoiding cliches, editing, crafting and proofreading! Whew!

More Google Classroom tips for beginners are here to help you in with that next step. Here's how to get more out of your Google Classroom - even if you're still winging it!

Leveraging symbolism in creative writing activities gives students a way to develop their story for a powerful purpose.

Interactive student checklists keep students organised and motivated. Here are some simple teacher tips to create them.

Teach dialogue for creative writing with these simple tips about keeping it realistic, formatting and punctuating.

Teachers! Here's how to easily share/print stories and articles from with the web with the PrintFriendly Chrome Extension!

Here I take you through how I've unpacked NCEA 1.1 Context Shapes Language and how I teach it.

Teachers, here are 5 strategies to scaffold your lessons effectively!

A Quick Guide to Google Chrome Extensions for English teachers - basic instructions to help you!

This overview helps teachers understand summaries, conclusions, syntheses, evaluations and judgments.