Resource Authors inspiring reading classroom posters Download our posters featuring illustrations and cover art from well-known children's authors, and an inspiring quote encouraging your pupils to pick up a book.
Resource National Poetry Day resources National Poetry Day is coming up on Thursday 3 October 2019! We have resources for schools and parents to help celebrate the day and explore 2019's theme of truth.
Premium resource Partner discounts for members With a whole-school membership of the National Literacy Trust you can access exclusive discounts from our partners. Click here to find out more and access the discount codes.
Resource Creating excitement around a new class book Planning to introduce a new book to your pupils? Spark curiosity and anticipation with this taster activity.
Resource Everybody Writes: writing groups Set up a writing club in your school to help establish a whole-school writing culture.
Resource Everybody Writes: beyond the classroom Develop pupils' writing lives across the school, at home, in the local community and beyond.
Resource A River of Stories - Tales and Poems from Across the Commonwealth Explore intercultural understanding with your class using four beautifully illustrated anthologies of poems and stories from around the world, with comprehensive supporting resources.
Premium resource IPEELL: Improving Writing in Key Stage 3 participants' area This course helps teachers develop strategies to take their Key Stage 3 pupils beyond scaffolded writing, building confidence and self-assessment skills.
Resource Rocky of the Rovers: France 2019 - a Women's World Cup football story by Tom Palmer Children's author Tom Palmer wrote a serialised story during the 2019 Women's World Cup. The story was designed to be read aloud in the classroom or at home, and followed...
Resource Skills Academy sample challenge - beatbox and breakdance This resource gives you the opportunity to try the challenges from the first Skills Academy beatbox & breakdance lesson.
Resource Becoming by Michelle Obama: supporting literacy and PSHE education (Key Stages 3-5) We have teamed up with Penguin Talks to launch this free teaching resource inspired by Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir, Becoming, to boost secondary students’ literacy skills,...
Premium resource Literacy in history Guidance on planning for academic literacy in the context of Key Stage 3 and 4 history teaching.
Resource Literacy for Humanities participants' area This page includes all the resources for participants of our Literacy for Humanities training.
Resource Tuesday News Day resources Tuesday News Day is a campaign to encourage teachers to discuss the news and current affairs with pupils for at least 10 minutes a week.
Premium resource Vocabulary building This resource explores key principles for vocabulary instruction that will build the proven positive reciprocal relationship between word knowledge and reading comprehension.
Premium resource Young City Poets participants' area This area is for schools taking part in Young City Poets.
Premium resource Developing language and literacy in science Research has found that the strongest factor affecting secondary pupils’ science scores is their literacy levels. This resource helps science teachers and literacy coordinators...
Premium resource Oracy and talk for learning This resource for secondary school teachers covers how different types of talk can be explicitly taught and practised in the classroom to develop pupils’ oracy.
Premium resource Advocacy for school libraries Using our school libraries research, this resource will help you develop your school library provision and demonstrate the wide ranging impact an effective school library can have...
Resource Wellbeing, reading and writing resources We have worked with children’s mental health charity, Place2Be, to develop a series of free wellbeing-themed teaching resources for primary schools, secondary schools and parents.
Resource First World War Centenary Assemblies and mini schemes of work for Key Stages 2, 3 and 4 produced in partnership with The Royal British Legion to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War.