Primary Professional & Subject Studies Warehouse
English
The English Subject Studies area of the Primary Warehouse contains useful documents, media files and links to subject specific websites.
Please note that the SMART Education at Canterbury Christ Church University website contains a vast collection of useful Secondary Teaching Ideas and Interactive Websites links to support Subject Teaching. You will also find useful SMART Board interactive whiteboard resources there too.
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| The Primary Framework: ensuring progress for children with literacy difficulties in Key Stage 1 The National Strategies advocate a systematic approach to teaching based on three ‘waves’ of tailored support. Schools can use the ‘waves’ approach to plan, design and tailor effective and appropriate provision for all children. |  |
| Independant Review of the Teaching of Early Reading This is the final report of the Reading Review, which you invited me to undertake in June 2005. It builds on the interim report that was published on 1st December 2005. | |
| Teaching Phonics in the National Literacy Strategy The aim of this paper is to open a new phase of dialogue on the teaching of phonics in the National Literacy Strategy (NLS). Standards of literacy in Key Stages 1 and 2 (ages 5 to 11 years) have risen in England since the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS) in 1998. | |
| Media Files | |
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| KS1/2 English - Reading Film: The Lesson In this programme, we see how a short animation film can be used to develop film literacy. Peta Higgs, a teacher at Cranmer School in South London, shows a film entitled The Monk and the Fish to her Year 6 pupils. |  |
| Managing SATs - Primary - Testing Times: Adding Value at Manor Primary The children at Manor Primary in Wolverhampton are below the national average in base-line assessment when they enter the school. | |
| Online Resources & Support | ||
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| National Curriculum in Action This website uses pupils' work and case study materials to show what the National Curriculum in English looks like in practice. |  | |
| QCA The English pages have been expanded and revised to provide access to a range of information about the projects, publications and other activities of the English team. | | |
| National Curriculum Online Here you will gain access to useful resources and information relating to English in the National Curriculum. | | |
| The Primary Framework The renewal of the Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics offers everyone involved in teaching children aged from 3 to 11 an opportunity to continue the progress made in raising standards by embedding the principles of both Every child matters: change for children (2004) and Excellence and enjoyment: learning and teaching in the primary years (Ref: 0518-2004) into practice. | | |