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.

The cross curricular English Classroom is fun and easy. Here are a few ideas to get you started!

Here are four terms students should understand about structuring the study of literature.

Fun Christmas Activities for your ENGLISH Class - ones that involve learning!

Have a laugh as Jo goes over some teacher confessions - habits we can't seem to shake!

When I returned to New Zealand from a stint working as an advisor in Abu Dhabi the education system had changed and so had the jargon of...

English teachers - fit GRAMMAR into your already-crammed English programme with these sustainable strategies.