Authorfy
Lesson plans and teaching aids
An ever-expanding bank of author videos and creative teaching resources to promote reading and writing for pleasure.
£
KS1, KS2 ...
Behind the Headlines
Lesson plans and teaching aids, CPD course, Projects, programmes and workshops
Teaching resources and workshops to engage secondary students in the news and journalism.
Free
KS3, KS4 ...
CLPE Teaching Resources
Lesson plans and teaching aids, CPD resource
A range of free resources created by CLPE to help schools teach literacy in the most effective way.
Free
KS1, KS2
Create a Comic Competition
Competition
Encourage children and young people to develop their creative storytelling skills by creating their own comic strip.
Free
KS1, KS2 ...
Discovering Children's Books
Lesson plans and teaching aids, Booklists and book reviews
A free online resource exploring the history of children's books from medieval fables to the present day. Includes writing activities, author videos and recommended booklists.
Free
KS1, KS2
Henrietta Branford Writing Competition
Competition
An annual short-story writing competition for children aged 19 and under.
Free
KS2, KS3 ...
Jane Considine's English Unit Plans
Lesson plans and teaching aids
A range of over 100 detailed text-based English unit plans created by Jane Considine, educational consultant and author.
£
KS1, KS2
Literacy Shed
Lesson plans and teaching aids
A selection of short films and animations chosen to enhance the teaching of writing in the primary classroom.
Free
KS1, KS2
Make Our Book
Pupil publishing
An online platform that enables schools to create and publish their own anthologies of children's writing.
£
KS1, KS2 ...
My Twist on a Tale
Competition
An annual writing competition open to all young people aged 4-19 that takes place in the autumn term.
Free
KS1, KS2 ...
National Writing Day
Event
National Writing Day is an annual event that celebrates the pleasures of creative writing.
Free
KS2, KS3 ...
NewsWise
Lesson plans and teaching aids, CPD course, Projects, programmes and workshops
A free, cross-curricular news literacy project for KS2 pupils developed by The Guardian Foundation, the National Literacy Trust and the PSHE Association.
Free
KS2
Poets in Schools
Author events
A service that helps schools find poets to deliver bespoke in-school visits and workshops.
£
KS1, KS2 ...
Power of Pictures
Lesson plans and teaching aids, CPD resource, CPD course
Teaching approaches, lesson plans and author videos designed to help teachers use picture books across the primary curriculum to enhance children's reading and writing.
Free
KS1, KS2
Power of Reading
Lesson plans and teaching aids, CPD course
A whole-school literacy programme that uses quality children's literature and creative teaching approaches to develop a high quality literacy curriculum.
££
KS1, KS2
Read to Write
Lesson plans and teaching aids
A programme of book-based teaching sequences to cover the teaching of writing in primary schools from Reception to Year 6.
£
KS1, KS2
Readers to Writers
Projects, programmes and workshops
A creative writing project and competition open to primary schools in Shropshire.
£
KS1, KS2
ReadingZone Live
Lesson plans and teaching aids
A bank of free online lesson plans for KS1 and KS2 based on texts by top children's writers with accompanying online author interviews.
Free
KS1, KS2
Scottish Book Trust Learning Resources
Lesson plans and teaching aids
A range of free learning resources covering reading and writing from the experts at Scottish Book Trust.
Free
KS1, KS2 ...
Shakespeare at School
Lesson plans and teaching aids
Online cross-curricular programmes of learning based on a Shakespeare play.
Free
KS2
Shakespeare Week
Event
A week-long celebration of Shakespeare's life and work with resources and events for primary schools.
Free
KS1, KS2
The Writing for Pleasure Centre
Lesson plans and teaching aids, CPD resource
Resources and lesson plans to support the effective teaching of writing in primary schools.
£
KS1, KS2
Transforming Writing Through Drama
CPD course
CPD course looking at how to use drama as a teaching tool in writing and across the curriculum.
££
KS2
