Reading & Writing

Resources for teaching literacy, from promoting reading for pleasure and purpose to inspiring writing.
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Exploring Children's Literature
Having a good working knowledge of children's literature is vital for primary teachers; the best way to develop switched-on young readers is to ensure they get access to high-quality age-appropriate material that engages and inspires them. This book explores the rich and varied world of children's literature and how it can be used in teaching to promote reading for pleasure and create lifelong readers.
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Literacy support for primary school teachers
This blog post will support you in teaching literacy in the primary classroom. With guidance in teaching systematic synthetic phonics as well as spelling, punctuation and grammar, taken from some of our books in teaching reading and writing to KS1 and KS2 pupils.
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Assessing Children's Writing
Assessing Children's Writing: A Best Practice Guide for Primary Teaching. This book supports teachers, trainee teachers and those on primary teacher training courses with the assessment of writing, and particularly assessment as part of the cycle of planning and teaching – assessment used formatively.
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Key principles for teaching grammar
The purpose for teaching grammar is not simply for you to be confident about correcting mistakes in children’s work, nor is it to pass on tricks and techniques to be replicated in a mechanistic way. This does not make children writers or lead to good writing. Teaching grammar effectively is about enabling children to control grammar to express increasingly complex ideas. When grammar is taught well, it can make a significant different to children’s literacy development. Read more here
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Key principles for teaching grammar
Here are 7 key principles to bear in mind when teaching grammar, taken from Teaching Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling in Primary Schools. Trainee and beginning teachers often find the teaching of SPaG especially challenging as they are not confident in their own knowledge. This popular text explores and provides the subject knowledge you will need to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling and gives guidance on how to teach it.
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Dr Seuss Books Teaching Kids Social Skills
Dr.Seuss Books teaching kids social skills, such as sympathy, standing up for self, accepting and believing oneself. Great stories for social skill lessons and activities for kids of all ages at school or homeschool. #SocialSkill #Seuss #DrSeuss #KidLit #KidsBooks #ChildrenBooks #iGameMomSTEM
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Inspiring Writing in Primary Schools
Inspiring Writing in Primary School is a practical text which provides trainee teachers exemplar lessons that encourage purposeful writing across the curriculum alongside a detailed exploration of what makes them good, and the theory behind them. It encourages trainees to consider the teaching of writing critically and to envisage how they can shape lessons for their own teaching. In starting with teaching then exploring theory, the text mirrors how many trainees will learn.
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Key principles when writing with children
By writing with children, we can make use of their verbal contributions. For example, a short story could be constructed with children working on mini whiteboards in pairs and the teacher drawing ideas as the story unfolds. Conducted well, such writing sessions can engage children's interest and provide them with material to continue stories and write their own endings. Here's 8 key principles to follow when writing with children, taken from Modelling Exciting Writing. Read free here
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Modelling Exciting Writing
To teach writing effectively, teachers must be able to model writing effectively to children. The Primary National Curriculum sets challenging expectations for the teaching of writing. Children must master the process of composition, redrafting, editing and writing final pieces. Increased emphasis on spelling, punctuation and grammar may leave some teachers and trainee teachers lacking ideas for developing children's writing beyond transcription and into composition. This book is here to help!
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Reading at Greater Depth in Key Stage 2
Expectations in primary English are high, particularly in reading. There is an emphasis on inference and deduction together with vocabulary development: two key elements for preparing pupils to access texts at a higher level. At the same time, there is also a change in the rhetoric around guided reading with teachers trying different pedagogies in order to fully prepare pupils for the demands of the reading curriculum. This book explores the various approaches to developing higher level readers.
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Modelling Exciting Writing
Key principles when writing with children is taken from Modelling Exciting Writing: A guide for primary teaching. In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be able to model writing effectively to children. The Primary National Curriculum sets challenging expectations for the teaching of writing. This book is for teachers and trainee teachers who could do with some extra inspiration for developing children's writing skills.
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Crash Course in Phonics
Crash Course in Phonics - what you probably should have been taught in reading methods, but weren't, helpful for elementary teachers #phonics #literacy #1stgrade #2ndgrade
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Write Dance : Ragnhild Oussoren
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Inviting Writing
Teaching writing in… science? Adam Bushnell and David Waugh argue that there are opportunities in all subjects and in all lessons, across the whole curriculum to teach writing. This book will help you spot the opportunities to invite writing in your class, as well as helping you plan, asses and develop your students' writing.