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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 -
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Support staff to teach the reading skills specific to their subject area with our downloadable presentation aimed at secondary practitioners - with a particular focus on science.View details about Reading in subject areas in secondary school -
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Introduce the idea of books as personal treasures and where to find them in the national libraries’ digital collections to engage secondary students and their families with reading.View details about Treasured books: engaging secondary students and their families with reading -
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The England Women’s football team took part in the Women’s Euros this summer. To capitalise on the excitement around the tournament, we teamed up with The FA to create a toolkit for...View details about UEFA Women's Euro 2017: literacy resources -
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This classroom pedagogy is designed to integrate the teaching of reading and writing within teachers’ subject areas.View details about Learning to Write, Reading to Learn: integrating the teaching of reading and writing within teachers’ subject areas -
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An example from Queensbridge School in Birmingham of how literacy can be integrated in the PSHE curriculum. “Generation Z” integrates wider reading of challenging...View details about Integrating literacy and PSHE: a case study from Queensbridge School, Birmingham -
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A resource exploring how to actively engage students through creative approaches to reading in lessons.View details about Creative approaches to reading -
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Support staff to select appropriate interventions at Key Stage 3 with our downloadable presentation, designed to be used in a staff meeting or whole school INSET with staff from...View details about Planning Key Stage 3 interventions -
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Support your students to improve their verbal communication skills by teaching different types of interactive talk.View details about Understanding the teaching of "talk" in the secondary classroom -
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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 -
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A quick guide that defines and covers some of the basics of synthetic phonics. Aimed at those new to phonics, parents and secondary colleagues struggling with late decoders.View details about The quick guide to phonics -
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Downloadable copies of key handouts and presentations for attendees on our Reading for Pleasure workshop.View details about Reading for Pleasure participants' area -
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Download Tom's short story for Years 6, 7 and 8.View details about A free short story by Tom Palmer for Years 6, 7 and 8: Maybe Football is Exciting -
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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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These football-themed books have been reviewed for us by football author Tom Palmer. The reviews are short and grouped by age.View details about Football book reviews -
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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