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.
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.
Premium resource IPEELL: Improving Writing in Key Stage 3 participants' area Thank you for taking part in this pilot programme for IPEELL: Improving Writing in Key Stage 3. Here you can find all the relevant documents from the course that you can use to...
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.
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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.
Resource National Poetry Day resources Primary and secondary poetry lesson plans, produced with our partners at National Poetry Day.
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.
Premium resource Literacy leadership in secondary schools This literacy leadership guide introduces the key roles and responsibilities and also provides prompts for a learning walk.
Premium resource Annual Literacy Research and Policy Guide 2018/19 A yearly compilation of recent research and policy developments in literacy to support busy practitioners in building evidence-based practice.
Premium resource Annual Literacy School Review 2018/19 One of our most popular membership resources designed to help you to evaluate your current literacy provision and develop an action plan for moving forward.
Resource Glossary of GCSE command words from AQA Overview of the most commonly used command words in GCSE exam papers