Get everyone on the same page when it comes to a love of reading, and be inspired to create a school-wide book buzz with these strategies, resources and initiatives from schools and organisations.
Learn what approaches you can use alongside phonics, and who might need that extra support. Get ideas from a special school that offers a range of methods to help its pupils access the curriculum.
Whole-class reading is a different approach to 'carousel' reading sessions. Learn how whole-class reading can work and how to introduce it in your school.
Want to create a knowledge-focused English curriculum that boosts cultural capital for all your pupils? Try reconsidering the texts you’re using to broaden your 'literature spine', modelling the writing process of real authors, and encouraging pupils to reflect on and edit their own work. That's Lekha Sharma's advice for making sure your English curriculum is as inclusive and effective as it can be. Get ideas for how to improve modelling and call on prior knowledge to turbo-charge literacy teaching at your school.
Share our templates with your teachers to help them set out their long and medium-term English plans. Plus, see examples of how other schools have laid theirs out.
Find out about targets for reading and writing in the National Curriculum. See examples of target-setting from schools and tools to help you set your own targets.
Boost pupils' language development by finding out how to engage them in reading, vocabulary learning and verbal interaction, in line with the DfE's 2021 reading framework.
Equip staff to excel when teaching reading, with top tips from the DfE's reading framework. Be clear on your responsibilities and those of your literacy lead, and find out how best to timetable reading.
Find advice from the DfE's 2021 reading framework, to help you make sure your staff have only the best resources at their fingertips for teaching reading.
See how schools motivate pupils and engage parents in spelling, including how 1 school creates a buzz with a termly spelling bee. Plus, find examples of spelling schemes for the National Curriculum.
Find out what to bear in mind when structuring your English curriculum, plus resources to help you along the way. See how 3 primary schools have set out their curriculum plans for reading and writing.