The LowdownIf you’re looking for a cohesive and coherent primary English curriculum then look no further!
The Literary Curriculum is an immersive, book-based platform that is designed to engage and motivate writers whilst ensuring all National Curriculum skills and objectives are carefully sequenced.
Complete book-based approach to primary school English
Now used by over 40,000 teachers, the 2022 BETT award-winning Literary Curriculum is a resource for primary schools looking for an innovative, creative and immersive book-based approach to KS1 and KS2 English.
Developed by The Literacy Tree, a group of English specialists who have all been teachers, school leaders and moderators, the Literary Curriculum immerses children in the world of literature, creating strong levels of engagement to provide meaningful and authentic contexts for learning.
As a whole-school approach, a school membership provides complete coverage of all National Curriculum expectations for writing composition, grammar, punctuation, spelling and reading comprehension.
Individual membership is also available where tokens can be exchanged for resources.
A membership entitles up to 30 members in a school to access over 350 high-quality, book-based planning sequences, including Spelling Seeds for spelling and vocabulary, and Literary Leaves to support the teaching of reading comprehension.
We can create bespoke school memberships for small schools as well as MATs, Trusts and LAs.
Written by teachers for teachers, the planning sequences for writing use quality texts and are based on our ‘Teach through a Text’ approach to primary English.
We provide planning sequences for Reception to Y6, which are easy-to-use, detailed sets of daily plans that guide teachers through using a text.
The concept is innovative as our planning sequences have engaging starting points using elements of dramatic conventions to generate interest; they develop vocabulary through interrogating text, and they include explicit grammar objectives that are always applied at the point of writing.
We also provide models of writing and ensure the composition opportunities are as engaging as the books!
Members also have access to hundreds of work samples from the planning sequences.
“The planning sequences are excellent and therefore the teachers felt incredibly well-supported expanding them to meet the needs of their classes. Virtually overnight, the production of writing from the children was transformed: they wanted to write!”
Headteacher, Van Gogh Primary, Lambeth
Through use of the Literary Curriculum, children build a literary repertoire and develop a knowledge of celebrated and significant authors, such as children’s laureates and the Carnegie and Greenaway award-winners.
The range includes novels, novellas, picture books, wordless texts, narrative poems, play scripts and narrative non-fiction, and prepares pupils for the subject content of critical reading at KS3.
This is a key feature of the Literary Curriculum as we choose books that are wide-ranging in genre, but that all possess literary features.
Our book choices are deliberately diverse and we review them continually with support from our teacher advisory panels for Race and Culture, LGBTQ+ and SEND.
Children become critical readers and acquire an authorial style as they encounter a wide-range of significant authors and a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
We provide curriculum maps that are free for all, too, which suggest a journey through the books in the Literary Curriculum.
We have chosen books that sit together under literary themes and a school can adapt or adopt these as they wish.
The experienced team at The Literacy Tree provides high-quality online training and in-person or online consultancy.
We strongly believe literature is vital when teaching English, so our training is always book-based, supporting the Reading for Pleasure agenda and our goal of strengthening teacher’s knowledge of how to use literature in the classroom.
All our training combines both practical ideas and the pedagogy behind them, immersing teachers within the theme of the book, taking them on a journey through a text and drawing upon drama techniques and props to bring a book alive, all while covering the requirements of the National Curriculum.
- A complete platform with book-based resources to support writing, reading comprehension, spelling and home learning.
- Thorough training and consultancy to support you with your journey, whether online or in school.
- A school membership provides the best value for all ofyour teachers. A free termly CPD session for English Subject Leaders is included too!
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