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A reading challenge for Key Stages 1 and 2 based on the popular Beast Quest and Rainbow Magic series.View details about Beast Quest and Rainbow Magic Reading Challenge -
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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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A descriptive writing challenge based on the popular Where’s Wally? series.View details about Around the World with Wally -
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A writing challenge for Key Stage 2 pupils around on the Timmy Failure books by Stephan Pastis.View details about Timmy Failure: Crack the Case -
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This resource contains a selection of high-quality picture books that support the teaching of phonics.View details about Great books for teaching phonics -
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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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This resource encourages pupils and parents to explore their unique family stories aiming to produce a family history book.View details about All about me: Making a family history book at Key Stage 2 -
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The mapping grid outlines the statutory and wider requirements of the primary English curriculum in one handy document to support long term and medium planning.View details about Genre and text type mapping grid for the primary national curriculum -
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Boost children’s reading with this imaginative reading challenge based on the Night Zookeeper story.View details about Night Zookeeper Reading Torch -
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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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Taking the wonderful Michael Morpurgo book, This Morning I Met a Whale as an example, we show how reading a story can act as a starting point to whole units of work.View details about Storybook Curriculum Example: This Morning I Met a Whale -
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A summary of the 12 key classroom approaches found to help transform young people’s writing and embed formative assessment.View details about Transforming writing: 12 key classroom approaches -
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A resource packed with ideas for inspiring real reading and writing through exploration of the place we know best – our local area.View details about Our Places: a toolkit for inspiring reading and writing through exploration of local places -
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This toolkit contains a host of creative ideas and activities to support your school community in collecting and sharing its own family stories. It celebrates the...View details about The Story Collectors’ Toolkit: ideas and activities for recording your families’ stories -
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Explore our ‘Top Ten’ ideas for using storytelling to build bridges with parents and families. The resource was designed for primary schools but could easily be adapted for secondary.View details about The Storytellers’ Top Ten: using storytelling to promote parental engagement -
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We have put together the following advice based on our experiences of working with professional football clubs to promote reading and literacy.View details about Using football to promote literacy: working with clubs and players -
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10 writing exercises that use football to engage young people with writing.View details about Football-themed writing activities by author Tom Palmer -
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Integrate grammar with the writing process using our PowerPoints and accompanying lesson notes for primary teachersView details about Integrating grammar within the writing process -
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This resource demonstrates how to plan a whole school immersion in a quality text to inspire and motivate reading and writing for real purpose and audience.View details about Storybook cross-curricular planning example: Shackleton’s Journey
