Premium membership: Primary Literacy Edit
Introducing your primary collection
This Primary Literacy Edit core collection has been carefully curated to bolster your literacy provision. With easy access to essential premium resources to support improvement in your setting, you can enhance writing, reading, and oracy outcomes in your primary setting.
Exclusive to premium members, we've included strategy and planning tools, knowledge development insights, and classroom practice resources created by our team of experienced educators.
The collection is dynamic. With termly releases throughout the academic year it will evolve, refresh and develop reflecting the changing landscape and priorities within literacy education, and the needs of our premium members.
Oracy: new Autumn term resources
- Practical activities for facilitating discussion in the classroom: guidance to help children and young people express, shape and deepen their thinking through interactions with others.
- Creating Curious Classrooms: tools supporting teachers to foster a culture where learners are motivated and confident to ask questions.
- Speak like an expert: oracy project project developing presentational talk through harnessing children's existing passions and interests.
- Inclusive Oracy: self-reflection guidance supporting teachers and leaders to review how well their oracy provision addresses inclusivity, identifying strengths and areas for development.
- Taking assessment off the page: a resource to support literacy and school leaders to train colleagues in using oracy as an assessment tool.
Reading and writing resources: new for 2026
Sats support
- Sats classroom revision guides for Year 6: ready-to-use resources for Sats, updated and extended for 2026
Approaches for reigniting writing
- Take one sentence: a sentence-level approach to supporting primary writing: a practical sequence of activities bridging the gap between transcription and composition
- Bringing writing to life through memorable experiences: guidance for using a variety of experiences as a launch-pad for building inspiring, impactful and effective writing sequences
- Evaluating and revising writing in the primary classroom: advice and practical resources to support upper primary pupils as they develop their writing skills
Developing whole-school reading
- A cross-curricular approach to supporting reading progress and engagement using high-quality texts as a rich foundation for enquiry, creativity and meaningful links across subjects
- Developing a whole-school reading environment for primary schools: inspiration and strategies you can implement easily in your school
- Reading for meaning: developing a whole-school philosophy: support for primary practitionersto explore and evaluate their teaching of reading for meaning
Research into Practice guidance
Insights into leading-edge research findings supported by practical ideas to implement in your setting.
Reading
- Research into Practice: Building lifelong readers: practical activities inspired by our reading research
- Research into Practice: Children and young people's perspectives on reading: an exploration of what children think and feel about reading, and how this can inform approaches to reading engagement.
Writing
- Research into Practice: Write your way: practical activities inspired by our writing research
- Research into Practice: Children and young people's perspectives on writing: children's thoughts and feelings about writing,and how we can harness these insights for the classroom
Audio
- Research into Practice: Enhancing learning through audio: practical activities inspired by our audio research
Core Collection: Primary Literacy Edit
- Literacy leadership in primary schools: supporting you to build confidence, clarity and impact in your role as a primary literacy leader.
- Launching Literacy: whole-school practical literacy approaches
- Primary Literacy Guide and Review: core reference guide, insights for strategic literacy planning and self-audit tools
- Talk for Reading: a reading and oracy staff workshop: training guide marrying reading and oracy
- Unlocking poetry: A poetry lover's classroom: teacher insights bringing poetry into the classroom
- Reading the world - promoting critical thinking: guidance on using picture books for discussion
What's coming up?
Each term, the Primary Literacy Edit will share a new collection of resources. These will be themed and provide focused insights into an aspect of literacy for you to explore.
Resources we'll be adding throughout 2026 will accompany the National Year of Reading - exploring the links between reading, writing and oracy. We’ll be sharing a range of evidence-based resources to help develop and enhance literacy in your setting.
With resources on reading and writing shared for Spring and Summer, we'll turn our focus towards oracy for the Autumn.
We'd love to hear from you if there is a resource or topic you'd really like us to support you with - email membership@literacytrust.org.uk
How can we support your literacy needs?
Have your say and let us know. From short surveys to focus-group discussions or a one-to-one chat, we want your input on our membership and resources so that we can support you better. To get involved, email membership@literacytrust.org.uk