Two sources of texts recommendations. Texts recommended BY high school English teachers FOR High School English teachers. These are texts that lend themselves to fantastic analysis, discussion and assessment success. Links available from the Drive Resources website.

Teach your high school students key verbs to describe what an author is doing. Set 14 from Drive Resources' Glitter and Glue series. Multiple uses including online learning. Great for homeschoolers as well as the traditional classroom. A super popular teacher resource for high school English teachers.

Find the NCEA documents you need to understand the new level 1 achievement standards for English and the new (draft) literacy assessment standards. This 2-page 'map' will help you navigate what you need and where to find it. Hyperlinked for your convenience. Download from the free stuff page of my website (scroll to Admin)

New NCEA standards - a map to show teachers the documents they need and where to find them

An instant download from my homepage. Designed with kiwis in mind. Xmas cards for English teachers in particular! Great for when you're in a rush and need Christmas cards for students and colleagues!

Editable, shareable, complete student work booklets.

Complete work booklets that allow students to work independently. Multiple formats. Share with your colleagues!

Complete work booklets that allow students to work independently. Multiple formats. Share with your colleagues!

Revision resources for NCEA English, levels 1, 2 and 3. Covering 1.1 Written Texts, 1.2 Visual Texts, 1.3 Unfamiliar Texts, 2.1 Written Texts, 2.2 Visual Texts, 3.1 Written Texts, 3.2 Visual Texts.

New Zealand literature for English teachers. Find great sites for resources about New Zealand writers and their works. New Zealand poets, New Zealand authors.

English subject resources. NCEA Achievement Standards and NZQA Unit Standards resources including a Literacy programme in Unit Standards. Digital classroom, Literacy strategies, film study, language devices, teacher planning, classroom management, teaching ideas, lesson starters and more!

Editable, shareable, complete student work booklets.

For this task students must present their own version of Wisecrack's famous "Thug Notes" about a text they've studied in class. Excellent for reinforcing 3.1 Written and 3.2 Visual Texts standards, students may record or perform live. This digital workbook includes teaching points, checkpoints, hyperlinks to parts of the doc, external websites and extra Google planning documents. Achievement Criteria are unpacked, checklists are included for self and peer assessment.

Complete work booklets that allow students to work independently. Multiple formats. Share with your colleagues!

This is a 'fill-in' workbook covering the meaning of 'analyse' for level 2, and 'discuss' for level 3. It teaches students about question format. It includes templates for students to fill in that cover all elements of literature including characters, settings, symbolism, key ideas, purpose, audience and more. Excellent for use as a classroom resource, or for students/parents to purchase themselves. Perfect for distance learning in Microsoft and Google formats (as well as a back-up PDF)!

This is a 'fill-in' workbook covering the meaning of 'analyse' for level 2, and 'discuss' for level 3. It teaches students about question format. It includes templates for students to fill in that cover all elements of literature including characters, settings, symbolism, key ideas, purpose, audience and more. Excellent for use as a classroom resource, or for students/parents to purchase themselves. Perfect for distance learning in Microsoft and Google formats (as well as a back-up PDF)!