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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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This resource explores the opportunities for links between literacy and landscape. It includes a sample geography and poetry lesson plan.View details about Landscape and literacy: linking geography and poetry at Key Stage 3
