Literacy Subject Leaders

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Literacy Coordinators
BLP stuck poster for reading
Contents for literacy coordinator file
English policy overview
Ideal features of a model literacy lesson
Learning intentions
Literacy action plan - Blank.
Must have documents for literacy coordination
National Strategy files you might want to save
Organising a book week
Publishers
Role of a literacy oordinator
Short term planning frame
Success criteria
Target tracker analysis
Target tracker whole school analysis
Teaching sequence for a discussion text
Teaching sequence for a non-chronological report
Working wall

Parents
Meetings for parents
Parents' leaflet - Sharing books with your child.

Enriching Literacy
21cc - Digital training sessions run by the BBC.
British Film Institute
Cornelius & Jones
Everybody Writes
Multi Story Theatre Company
The Parks Trust MK
The Poetry Society
The Story Spinner
Stowe Landscape Gardens
Stowe visit themes and learning experiences booklet
Take One Picture

Other Web Links
BBC Schools Words and Pictures - Lots of lovely phonics games for year two pupils.
Nelson Thornes phonics - Very basic phonics games.
BBC Schools Spellits - Simple spelling games for KS2.
BBC Schools Little Animals Activity Centre - KS1 end sounds, first sounds and rhymes games.
BBC Schools Digger and the Gang
BBC Schools Starship - Aimed at KS1.
BBC Newsround - Regularly updated child friendly news website.
BBC Schools Magic Key - Based on the Oxford Reading Tree characters.
Picture Books by Dandi Palmer
Children's Storybooks Online - Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages.
Clifford the Big Red Dog - Phonics games and interactive books.
Kids on the Net - Links to many sites where children have contributed their own work.
Kids Poetry Page - Play with magnetic poetry word tiles to create your own poems.
Childhood Favourites - A collection of classic children’s poems presented neatly.
Fizzy Funny Fuzzy - Lots of poems with a little animated picture for each one.
Poem Hunter - A site for finding poems by classic and modern poets.
UK Children’s Books - Links to a wealth of authors, illustrators and publishers’ websites.
Myths, Legends and Fables - Over forty text-only myths and legends from other cultures.
Cool-Reads - Books for 10-15 year old readers by 10-15 year old reviewers.
Channel4 Learning Bookbox - KS2 site for finding out about authors, poets and illustrators.
The Free Dictionary - Online dictionary with definitions, roots and a thesaurus. Aimed at adults.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Very detailed definitions. No thesaurus. Aimed at adults.
The Early Childhood Education Network - An American site that may be helpful for letter formation in page 2 and 3 of the writing section.
Between the Lions - Interactive stories, phonics songs and games for phonics and spellings.
Lancashire Grid for Learning - Literacy activities and resources section.
BAB Books On-Line - Online books with text and illustrations.
Hindu Kids - A site with many Hindu myths and legends.
Aesop’s Fables - With text and illustrations.
Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales - Very simple online texts with illustrations.
How Stuff Works - A great website for KS2 explanation texts.
Sebastian Swan - Early KS1 non-fiction online texts.
Classic Reader - Free classic fiction site.
KidPub - Books, stories, writing contests and publishing for kids.
CanTeach African folk tales - Text only.
Ladybird - A site for KS1, with online stories and early skills in phonics and reading.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales - A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies.
Topmarks - Educational search engine.
Woodlands Junior School - Links to lots of KS1 and KS2 word, sentence and text level websites.
Coxhoe Primary School - Another school website with a wealth of links to KS1 and KS2 word and sentence level website activities.