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A collection of resources and materials to support your planning, teaching and assessment and extend children's understanding and development across talking, spelling writing and reading.

Literacy Framework

This set of unit plans and resources can be adapted to support your teaching, planning, and assessment. You can also see how the learning objectives and assessment criteria connect to the framework.
APP in Literacy

Examples of marked work (Standards Files and training Standards Files) that use Assessment Focuses (AFs) to help you make level judgements when Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP).
Every Child a Writer (ECaW)

Videos, case studies and materials showing how children can use this programme to develop their writing skills at Key Stage 2.
Communication, language and literacy Development (CLLD)

Support for children’s listening, speaking, reading, writing and spelling skills, including their Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED).
Further literacy support

A 12-week intervention programme focused on raising childrens’ attainment levels across the key areas of literacy.
Support for writing

This collection of materials focus on Narrative, Non-fiction and Poetry text types and also show progression across Key stages 1 and 2.
Support for spelling

Activities and yearly spelling programmes to help children understand and apply different spelling conventions and rules.
Planning for writing in Year 3 and Year 4

Techniques and examples of plans to help you adjust your teaching to suit the needs of your class and support your unit planning.
Focus on talk

Research and materials to support teaching and learning of talk. These include a position paper by Professor Neil Mercer and a re-examination of literacy learning objectives.

Literacy topics

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Every Child a Writer (ECaW) tuition videos

Videos showing how teachers, tutors, parents, carers and children have benefited from the Every Child a Writer (ECaW) programme at Key Stage 2. They focus on the progress of two children in Year 4. They are complemented with supporting materials throughout to help plan, monitor and assess ECaW tuition.
- Every Child a Writer (ECaW) tuition videos
  
  Videos showing how teachers, tutors, parents, carers and children have benefited from the Every Child a Writer (ECaW) programme at Key Stage 2. They focus on the progress of two children in Year 4. They are complemented with supporting materials throughout to help plan, monitor and assess ECaW tuition.
Narrowing the Gaps for literacy subject leaders

These materials can help with reviewing planning and can enable you to support inexperienced colleagues better in meeting the needs of all pupils in a class.
- Narrowing the Gaps for literacy subject leaders
  
  These materials can help with reviewing planning and can enable you to support inexperienced colleagues better in meeting the needs of all pupils in a class.
  - Reviewing provision for underperforming vulnerable groups
  - Key prompts for literacy subject leaders
Speaking, Listening, Learning: Working with children in Key Stage 1 and 2

This publication supports a more systematic approach to speaking and listening by providing a set of relevant objectives to use when teaching across the primary age range.
Support for Spelling

Use Support for Spelling to help improve children’s spelling and support your planning and teaching within the Primary Framework. Headteachers and subject leaders can also use this content to find out how programmes can be organised in their schools. This is linked to the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Factors that have influenced spelling
  
  Find out how the alphabet and the history of language have influenced spelling. This is part of Support for Spelling.
- Knowledge of the spelling system
  
  Discover how understanding different types of knowledge can support children’s ability to spell, and find lists of spelling guidelines and conventions that can be applied across many words.
- Learning objectives and teaching focuses
  
  Find the spelling learning objectives and related teaching focuses for Years 2 to 6 and learn how they are linked to the yearly spelling programmes. This is part of Support for Spelling.
  - Year 2
  - Year 3
  - Year 4
  - Year 5
  - Year 6
- Spelling and writing
  
  Find out how spelling and independent writing are linked, and read approaches and spelling strategies that can help support independent writing. This is part of Support for Spelling.
- Learning and practising spelling
  
  Use these different teaching strategies and routines to help children memorise words, including high-frequency and topic words. These ideas can be applied at home or in the classroom.
- Guide for parents: How to help your child with spelling
  
  Parents can find a variety of suggested methods, strategies and word games they can use to help encourage and support their children in becoming confident and accurate spellers. This is part of Support for Spelling.
- Spelling programmes and teaching sequences
  
  Support for Spelling provides a suggested spelling programme for each year group. Find out how these programmes are structured and what they contain.
- Year 2 programme
  
  This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
- Year 3 programme
  
  This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies.
- Year 4 programme
  
  This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
- Year 5 programme
  
  This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
- Year 6 programme
  
  This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
Support for Writing

Find out what Support for Writing is, how it can be used and why it is important to plan for progression within the different text types.
- Progression and text type support in Narrative
  
  Get an overview of the features and conventions of the most common narrative text types, and what progression might look like for your Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils.
- Progression and text type support in Non-fiction
  
  Get an overview of the features and conventions of the most common non-fiction text types, and what progression might look like for your Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils.
  - Progression and text type support in Non-fiction
  - About non-fiction text types
- Progression and text types support in Poetry
  
  Get an overview of the features and conventions of the most common poetry text types, and what progression might look like for Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils.
Talk for Writing

Find out what Talk for Writing is and how it originated.
- Talk for Writing
  
  Find out what Talk for Writing is and how it originated.
  - Introduction to Talk for Writing
  - Using Talk for Writing
Year 1 literacy

Use the three sections, additional text-based units, mixed-age planning unit, planning overview and pupil writing targets within this year to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of Year 1 of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 1 pupil writing targets
  
  Use this table to help support effective teaching of writing in this year, particularly in guided sessions or one to one tuition. This is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 1 literacy: Narrative section
  
  Use the four units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 1 literacy: Non-fiction section
  
  Use the five units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 1 literacy: Poetry section
  
  Use the three units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 1 literacy: Additional text-based units
  
  Use these units to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy. The units make direct reference to specific texts and go beyond exemplified units by providing more detailed support. This is part of Year 1 of the Primary Framework for literacy.
  - Unit 1: A day in the life of an RSPCA inspector
  - Unit 2: The story of Jake and Bones
- Mixed-age planning: Traditional stories
  
  Use this unit summary, suggested timing and prior learning to support your planning and teaching of classes which have more than one year group. This unit addresses the needs of year groups 1, 2 and 3 and is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
Year 2 literacy

Use the three sections, additional text-based units, mixed-age planning units, planning overview and pupil writing targets within this year to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of Year 2 of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 2 literacy planning
  
  Use the suggested structure, ordering and timings to support your planning throughout the year. Find out about mixed-age planning, what fully exemplified units contain and why some units are not exemplified. This is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 2 pupil writing targets
  
  Use this table to help support effective teaching of writing in this year, particularly in guided sessions or one to one tuition. This is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 2 literacy: Narrative section
  
  Use the four units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 2 literacy: Non-fiction section
  
  Use the four units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 2 literacy: Poetry section
  
  Use the two units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 2 literacy: Additional text-based unit
  
  Use this unit to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy. The unit makes direct reference to specific texts and goes beyond exemplified units by providing more detailed support. This is part of the Year 2 Primary Framework for literacy.
  - Unit 1: Really looking
- Mixed-age planning: Traditional stories
  
  Use this unit summary, suggested timing and prior learning to support your planning and teaching of classes which have more than one year group. This unit addresses the needs of year groups 1, 2 and 3 and is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Mixed-age planning: Stories set in imaginary worlds
  
  Use this unit summary, suggested timing and prior learning to support your planning and teaching of classes which have more than one year group. This unit addresses the needs of year groups 2, 3 and 4 and is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
Year 3 literacy

Use the three sections, planning overview and pupil writing targets within this year to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of Year 3 of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 3 literacy planning
  
  Use the suggested structure, ordering and timings to support your planning throughout the year. Find out what fully exemplified units contain and why some units are not exemplified. This is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 3 pupil writing targets
  
  Use this table to help support effective teaching of writing in this year, particularly in guided sessions or one to one tuition. This is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 3 literacy: Narrative section
  
  Use the five units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 3 literacy: Non-fiction section
  
  Use the three units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 3 literacy: Poetry section
  
  Use the three units within this section to help support your planning, teaching and assessment of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Mixed-age planning: Traditional stories
  
  Use this unit summary, suggested timing and prior learning to support your planning and teaching of classes which have more than one year group. This unit addresses the needs of year groups 1, 2 and 3 and is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Mixed-age planning: Stories set in imaginary worlds
  
  Use this unit summary, suggested timing and prior learning to support your planning and teaching of classes which have more than one year group. This unit addresses the needs of year groups 2, 3 and 4 and is part of the Primary Framework for literacy.
Year 3 literacy: Additional text-based units

Use this unit summary, suggested timing and prior learning to support your planning and teaching of the Primary Framework across this unit. Additional text-based units go beyond exemplified units by providing more detailed support. This unit is part of Year 3 of the Primary Framework for literacy.
- Year 3 literacy: Additional text-based units
  
  Use this unit summary, suggested timing and prior learning to support your planning and teaching of the Primary Framework across this unit. Additional text-based units go beyond exemplified units by providing more detailed support. This unit is part of Year 3 of the Primary Framework for literacy.
  - Unit 1: Rainforests
  - Unit 2: The Battle of Bubble and Squeak by Philippa Pearce

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