Literacy Tree is an immersive, book-based platform designed to engage and motivate young writers while ensuring all national curriculum skills and objectives are carefully sequenced. Perfect if you’re after a cohesive and coherent approach to literacy.
The complete book-based approach to primary school English!
Discover the award-winning Literacy Tree, now embraced by nearly 1,000 member schools worldwide! Our innovative, creative, and immersive book-based approach to KS1 and KS2 English has earned the prestigious Bett Award, making it a top choice for primary schools aiming to elevate English in their classrooms.
Try before you buy!
New customers can explore our comprehensive resources with a special £50 sample pack. This pack includes three weeks’ worth of material for each year group, allowing you to experience the Literacy Tree difference first-hand.
Plus, the cost is deductible against whole-school membership if you sign up!
Why choose Literacy Tree?
As a comprehensive whole-school approach, a Literacy Tree membership covers all national curriculum expectations for writing composition, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and reading comprehension.
Whether you’re a large school or a small one, we offer bespoke memberships to fit your needs, including options for MATs, Trusts, and LAs. Individual memberships are also available, where tokens can be exchanged for resources, ensuring flexibility for every school’s unique needs.
“The work my whole team have done with Literacy Tree has been transformative. The teaching team and children are so enthusiastic and excited about reading and writing. The books look great, the children are confident and keen to talk.”
Hilary, headteacher
What you get with membership:
- > Access for up to 30 members: Over 500 high-quality, book-based resources.
- > Teacher-friendly plans: Written by teachers for teachers, our book-based planning sequences called Writing Roots provide comprehensive curriculum coverage, engaging children to write with a clear audience and purpose. This forms the backbone of our Teach Through a Text pedagogy.
- > Innovative teaching tools: Spelling Seeds for vocabulary and spelling, Literary Leaves for reading
comprehension, and the original Writing Roots, prepare teachers to Teach Through a Text, and our Classroom Toolkit includes helpful visuals to help you along the way. - > Engaging learning experience: Our plans incorporate discovery points to spark interest, develop vocabulary, and include explicit grammar objectives applied at the point of writing.
- > Diverse and inclusive book choices: Our books range from novels and novellas to picture books, narrative poems, and non-fiction, featuring celebrated authors and diverse voices.
- > Support and training: Access to free curriculum maps, progression documents, live planning surgeries, termly subject leader meetings, and author visits.
- > App: Our highly subscribed app helps members annotate plans, capture work samples, and assess children’s progress.
Hear from our community
Don’t just take our word for it – read over 30 success stories from schools that have adopted and adapted Literacy Tree over on our website. From small rural schools to international settings, our approach has transformed English learning experiences.
Join us!
Get in touch with our team on info@literacytree.com / 020 3196 0140 to learn more about creating a bespoke membership for your school.
Whether you’re a small school or part of a large trust, we have a solution that will work for you. to learn more about creating a bespoke membership for your school. Whether you’re a small school or part of a large trust, we have a solution that will work for you.
- Comprehensive platform:
Book-based resources supporting writing, reading comprehension, spelling, and home learning.
- Extensive training and consultancy:
Support for your journey, both online and in school.
- Best value membership:
Includes a free termly CPD session for English subject leaders.