NZ authors, teaching notes

From Sarah Forster Education Manager New Zealand Book Council

"I have just found these on Text Publishing's website. They are an Australian publisher, but have picked up a lot of our most popular authors, publishing Bernard Beckett, Lloyd Jones, Leon Davidson, Maurice Gee, and Anna Mackenzie. In case any teachers are looking for notes - I know some of these books are likely to be in class sets now! "

http://textpublishing.com.au/resources/teaching-notes

Teaching notes for New Zealand Books

From the latest NZ Book Council newsletter The School Librarian :

Did you know the Book Council has collected links to all the sites where publishers have made teachers’ notes available? It’s a great resource for teachers and librarians http://ow.ly/2nfFQ

Publishing houses often create teaching resources for their New Zealand publications, as well as linking to resources for all of their overseas partners. To see whether teaching notes exist for a title, find out which publisher it is from (this information will be on the imprint page, if not the spine of the book), and use the below links to search for and download the notes.

• Allen & Unwin
• HarperCollins (NZ)
• Gecko Press
• Penguin (NZ), also represents Reed, Raupo, Mallinson Rendel and Puffin imprints
• Random House (NZ), also represents Vintage and Black Swan imprints
• Scholastic (NZ)
• Text Publishing (AU)
• Walker Books (AU), also represents Candlewick Books (US)

Not a New Zealand book but here is a link to teaching notes for The Hunger Games, http://www2.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/h/HungerGamesTrilogyDiscussionGuide.pdf shared by Jane Ryan from Howick College.

Publishers' websites : teacher's guides

If you are looking for inspiration and ideas for ways to incorporate children's literature into classroom programmes - with the proviso about not "doing" a book to death - there are often notes available on the publisher's website, eg

Harper Collins
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/Teachers/TeachingResources.aspx

Walker
http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/Teachers/Classroom-Ideas

Allen & Unwin
http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=71

Random House
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/

Also check out either the author's own website or the "character's" website, as well as resources such as : Carol Hurst , Children's Literature Web Guide , Resources for School Librarians etc etc etc