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This case study is a great example of how to address children's literacy needs from school and from home.View details about Top 10 strategies for supporting family learning in secondary schools -
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Ideas and activities to support your school in using diaries as an introduction to autobiographical writing and as a way of promoting family and community engagement.View details about The diary writer’s toolkit -
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Encourage your pupils to expand and experiment with descriptive language using the Descriptosaurus books as inspiration.View details about Descriptosaurus Time Machine writing challenge -
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Students write their own original poems expressing their thoughts on attitudes towards young people in today’s society.View details about Write On: poetry slam -
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Three videos looking at how to plan a grammar-centric scheme of work to teach both English content and language features.View details about Embedding grammar in Key Stage 3 English schemes of work -
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Your TA can support EAL pupils in acquiring English language skills and developing their vocabulary through a range of learning opportunities.View details about Top tips for effective management of teaching assistants to support EAL pupils -
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In this PowerPoint resource, Mike Gershon, top contributor for TES Resources, shares his favourite activities to help bring discussion and debate to the classroom.View details about Practical activities for facilitating discussion in the classroom -
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An example approach to whole school literacy with an English as an additional language (EAL) focus at the British International School in Vietnam.View details about A whole-school approach to literacy -
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A case study of how Mossbourne Community Academy, London, embeds literacy practice and pedagogy across all classrooms.View details about Developing and embedding literacy practices in lessons: Mossbourne Community Academy -
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A teaching resource suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3 with lots of ideas and activities to enable you to run a descriptive writing competition in your school.View details about The Descriptosaurus writing challenge -
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Challenge and inspire upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 pupils to write their own Alex Rider adventure story.View details about Alex Rider Secret Mission – an adventure story challenge -
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We all have a story to tell. Take a look at our top ten ideas for using life stories as a way of engaging secondary school parents and families.View details about The Life Story Collector's Top Ten: using stories to engage parents and families -
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Invite parents in to celebrate their child’s learning.View details about Top 10 tips for engaging secondary school parents in learning -
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Use this presentation to support and train subject staff about how to embed grammar teaching across the secondary curriculum.View details about Embedding grammar teaching across the secondary curriculum -
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This resource showcases successful school library projects and strategies our members used to support teaching reading to EAL learners and engaging parents in literacyView details about Library outreach -
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Explore the key themes of the book and try activities designed to link to a range of outcomesView details about The Bone Sparrow teaching resource -
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Tap into your students’ passions with this motivating and structured journalism challenge.View details about My Words, My World: a journalistic writing challenge for secondary schools -
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Great Poetry Through Time aims to foster reading poetry for pleasure and to help students to identify what kinds of poems inspire and delight them.View details about Great Poetry Through Time: Chaucer to 21st Century Poets -
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Give transition a literacy focus with this resource based on the wonderful book The Land of Neverbelieve by Norman Messenger.View details about Literacy-based transition project for Years 6 and 7 -
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A cross-curricular resource for Key Stage 3 celebrating Shakespeare’s enduring legacy.View details about Mark the Bard! -
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Find out what your pupils' families think about reading and the role of the school in encouraging reading for pleasure.View details about Family reading survey
