Plazoom – Why you should be using this literacy resources website
Discover how Plazoom’s comprehensive and easy-to-use resources can transform your literacy teaching and save you valuable time…
- by Teachwire
With the right literacy resources, you can inspire a love of reading and writing that lasts a lifetime. This is where specialised literacy resources website Plazoom steps in as an invaluable partner for primary teachers.
What is Plazoom?
Plazoom is an education website that provides high-quality literacy resources for primary teachers.
Designed by experienced educators, the website offers a wide range of materials, including lesson plans, reading comprehension activities, writing prompts and phonics exercises.
Plazoom’s resources are curriculum-aligned, easy to integrate into your teaching and adaptable for home learning.
Plazoom free resources
The platform offers both free resources and a membership model that gives you access to all of its premium content. Sign up for an annual school membership, an annual personal membership or a monthly membership.
Who is behind Plazoom?
Plazoom set up shop in 2019 with a range of eye-catching content, all created by a team of experienced teachers who understand the challenges presented by the primary curriculum.
Plazoom comes from the team at Artichoke Media Ltd – who also look after other education brands such as market-leading professional development magazine Teach Primary and education website Teachwire.
What makes Plazoom resources different?
If you’re looking for a change from more familiar formats, you’ll love Plazoom’s clean, colourful resource designs. They look great in pupils’ books and on classroom walls as well.
There’s a lot of emphasis on high-quality design so the resources are eye-catching and appeal to students and teachers.
There are neat practicalities too, such as the space provided on worksheets for teachers’ feedback.
Plazoom’s resources are challenging, engaging and target specific learning intentions in line with current educational thinking.
Key Plazoom collections
Real Grammar
Real Grammar from Plazoom equips you with everything you need to teach and reinforce all objectives from the Year 1-6 grammar curriculum.
Its thorough and adaptable five-step approach (teach, practise, revisit, apply, revise) helps you deliver high-quality lessons and ensure steady progress for all students.
There are ample opportunities to identify and address gaps in knowledge through spaced learning and interleaving.
Additionally, Real Grammar fosters deep understanding by placing each objective in context, using original model texts to demonstrate usage. It also offers creative writing tasks that enable students to apply their learning.
Download a sample Real Grammar unit from Plazoom.
Real Writing
Real Writing from Plazoom offers a complete writing curriculum for Year 1-6, centred around high-quality model texts. The resources expose students to powerful examples of writing, helping them craft sophisticated work of their own.
Use Real Writing to teach grammar and punctuation in context using creatively annotated model texts, saving you time on lesson preparation.
These resources will help pupils build strong vocabularies, with essential Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary included in every text.
Real Writing provides fully resourced lesson plans that guide students towards extended independent writing, often linking to other subjects.
Developed by literacy consultant Rachel Clarke, the series features contributions from talented authors like Jon Mayhew, Joshua Seigal and Ross Montgomery.
Download a sample Real Writing unit from Plazoom.
Real Comprehension
Real Comprehension from Plazoom is a comprehensive reading programme for Years 1-6, designed to develop skills in inference and retrieval while encouraging thematic analysis and text comparison.
The programme includes 54 original texts – fiction, non-fiction, and poetry – created by published children’s authors.
Each text is age-appropriate, thematically linked, and fully annotated to support teaching. Real Comprehension uses close-reading and guided reading techniques, along with fully resourced teaching sequences, to help students of all abilities build a deeper understanding of texts.
Created by literacy experts Christine Chen, Lindsay Pickton, Rachel Clarke and Ruth Baker-Leask, this Real Comprehension from Plazoom is enriched with contributions from notable children’s authors like Joshua Seigal, Sue Hardy-Dawson and Dan Smith.
Author In Your Classroom
Author In Your Classroom is a brilliant free podcast series recorded especially for schools by the team at Plazoom. Every episode of Author In Your Classroom comes with free:
- Teacher notes
- PowerPoints
- Planning grids
- Writing sheets
- Quotes and illustrations for display
There are more than 20 episodes to choose from, with some of the most famous children’s authors the UK has to offer, including Sir Michael Morpurgo, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Joseph Coelho, Lauren Child and more.
More Plazoom collections
Plazoom has gathered its resources into collections to make searching even simpler. Collections include:
- Calendar resources for covering national celebrations and special events
- WAGOLL text types writing packs across a whole range of genres
- KS2 SATs support for making sure your Year 6 pupils are prepared for their assessments
- Word Whoosh vocabulary resource packs
- SPaG Gym worksheets covering the full punctuation and grammar curriculum
- Spelling Workouts activities for Y1-6
- Grammar Slam worksheets for revising and practising key concepts
- Phonics resources including word mats, flashcards and games
- Effective Writing activities that explore a wide range of text types
- Grammar games that are both fun and educational
English CPD
Plazoom offers over 60 online CPD videos, including seven targeted courses that teachers can access anytime, anywhere.
These courses are led by experienced literacy experts who provide effective training nationwide. Additionally, there are more than 80 essential guides covering every aspect of literacy teaching, allowing you to tailor your own professional development.
Support for home learning
Plazoom provides resources that are easily adaptable for use at home. Whether it’s assigning reading comprehension activities or providing writing tasks that students can complete independently, use Plazoom resources to ensures that learning continues outside the classroom.
These resources are straightforward for parents to use, which helps maintain a consistent learning experience for students, whether they’re in school or learning from home.
