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Literacy subject area

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Find a huge range of supportive materials and guidance in this area. Ensure your primary school has robust planning, assessment CPD and CLLD strategies and practices in place by using the resources in this literacy section.

Focus on some of the key issues of primary literacy including improving boys' writing, support for EAL learners and the Every Child a Writer and Every Child a Reader programmes.

Sections in Literacy subject area

  • Assessment
  • Continuing professional development (CPD)
  • Planning
  • CLLD (including Letters and sounds)
  • Curriculum
  • Newsletters
  • Primary languages

Assessment

  • Assessing Pupils' Progress
  • Target setting
  • Assessment guidelines
  • Day to day assessment

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Continuing professional development (CPD)

  • Early reading
  • Improving reading
  • Improving writing
  • Leadership
  • Speaking, Listening, Learning
  • Support for Writing
  • Talk for Writing
  • Year 2 intensive reading support

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Planning

  • Guidance papers
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  • Intervention programmes
  • Learning objectives
  • Learning overviews
  • Planning tool
  • Primary Framework units
  • Pupil progress

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CLLD (including Letters and sounds)

  • Overview
  • Early literacy
  • Initial teaching training (ITT)
  • LA consultancy
  • Letters and Sounds
  • Gateway to writing
  • Talk for writing
  • Writing samples

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Curriculum

  • Reading
  • Every Child a Reader (ECaR)
  • Writing
  • Every Child a Writer (ECaW)
  • Improving boys' writing
  • Spelling
  • Speaking and listening
  • Environment
  • Support for EAL learners

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Related publications

  • publication image Narrowing the Gaps: Guidance for literacy subject leaders
  • publication image Narrowing the Gaps Programme newsletter: EMA and FSM – spring 2010
  • publication image Making an impact on Black children's achievement
  • publication image Support for Spelling

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