Books & Resources

Award-winning author Kwame Alexander joins your classroom as a coach, advisor and friend to give you personal and practical advice on how to teach teach writing to your students. A fun, practical and engaging resource for the whole classroom.

The literacy workshop is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers a practical process for creating an integrated literacy workshop using demonstration lessons that align with current curriculum standards. By weaving together the common threads of literacy learning, you can increase the time your students spend engaged in authentic reading and writing.

Cultivating writers shows teachers how to take writing instruction beyond the skills to ignite the will to write among Years 3–8 students. Based on extensive classroom experience, this book shares strategies that help students tap into their own life experiences, model the habits of a writer and make use of the tools of the trade. 

These revolutionary teaching methods empower you to create an unparalleled level of student engagement. Kagan structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams and with classmates.

With Reading and writing strategies for the secondary social studies classroom in a PLC at Work, grades 6–12 teachers will equip their students with the literary support they need to think, read and write like social studies experts. This book emphasises the importance that the Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work process has in supporting learners who struggle with literacy and in enriching learning for those who demonstrate proficiency. The series editors and authors provide practical literacy-based strategies specifically designed for social studies instruction. By restoring a focus on literacy as the centrepiece of the secondary social studies classroom, teachers will prepare all students for their future beyond school.

Do you want your English classes to bustle with engagement? Do you want your students to be active, ask and answer questions, explore literature at a deeper level and quiz each other on vocabulary? Here’s your solution. In this two-book series, you will find powerful cooperative learning strategies to make your secondary English curriculum come alive.

With this book, teachers get the guidance they need to help students engage in learning experiences that allow them to reflect on their level of knowledge and what they need to learn, while exploring topics that correspond with their interests. Readers will learn to guide students in creating tutorial videos, providing peer reviews, curating their own resources, participating in debates and more.

Stretch the many facets of your students’ minds with these thought-provoking questions: ‘What do you think would happen if parliament tried to establish an official religion? What does your culture have in common with this culture? Australia wasn’t discovered, it was stolen from the First Australians: do you agree or disagree?’ Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. It also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Simultaneously explore social studies in depth and promote higher-level thinking!

Cooperative learning & social studies will show you how to use cooperative learning strategies to make your social studies classroom come alive. Each of the 24 cooperative strategies includes an in-depth description, steps, activity ideas to use the strategy with other social studies content, and a lesson with ready-to-use activity sheets. Lessons are designed to teach themes including issues, geography, historical events, historical characters and current events. The book also includes how to get started, how to manage the cooperative social studies class, and what to do for assessment and evaluation. 

Use your students’ favourite literature books to develop their higher-level thinking skills. Includes over two hundred questions on favourites including Charlotte’s web, James and the giant peach and Looking for Alibrandi.

Transform your English lessons into proven energising activities students love. Students enjoy mixing and matching so much, they hardly realise they are repeatedly quizzing each other and mastering the content.

Developing digital detectives offers easy-to-implement lessons for educators to support learners as they become digital detectives, looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict.