Create audio books for your class with your iPhone - or your android - with these simple instructions about how to record and upload to your

Teaching film as literature can be overwhelming for English/ELA teachers. Here's a quick teacher guide to help!

Follow a character and engage with the setting in your next text study in English. Google My Maps for English lessons is a GAME-CHANGER!

A few things I'd be reiterating with students over in the final weeks (and couple of months) of the year to revise for 1.3 Writing and...

I’ve been thinking a lot about annotation lately. It pops up for reading, research, responding… It’s a springboard for writing...

By Jo Hayes In the beginning... Heading to New Zealand from the UK in 2010, I was confident in my research and what I could expect. I was...

Quick teacher tips for Google Classroom. Stay in the know with Jo!

Key points and few strategies for teaching your students 4 types of setting. Setting is BOSS!

I’m sick of reading paragraphs with a cursory nod to ‘purpose’ tacked on as a final sentence. Students aren’t thinking about the...

How you can improve students' writing with proofreading habits.

What’s everyone else doing? Am I the only one still searching for that holy grail of planning systems? Am I the only one muddling...

The close reading of unfamiliar texts is my favourite part of English teaching. Here are 12 things I think it's important to remember....

Let me tell you how a tiny, traditional test can help all students learn and see how academically amazing they are. Yes, all ...

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel for each ability level in your class. Here’s an easy way to break your lesson into three...

Curriculum changes like NZ's NCEA Review mean learning about new websites, new experts, new vocabulary, new assessments, new philosophies...

Here’s my road to teaching structure in my English classroom: First 10 years: Didn't know ‘structure’ was a thing I should be teaching. ...

Teach students how aspects of texts work together with this simple 'list and funnel' strategy.

Using texts by Māori creators is fantastic, but ignoring everyone else is going to limit students’ understanding of the world, robbing...

So many of us teachers hate graphing and analysing our data! It's one more job, NOT in that 'Urgent and Important' box, done just to...

I wasn't convinced my Year 13s (grade 12) were appreciating that there really was a person - an actual real-life person like us - who...