A wonderful INSET with the staff at Kingswood Prep in beautiful Bath to launch Literacy Tree #WritingRoots 🚀- we wrote lonely hearts adverts, sent messages in bottles and explored the stunning lyrical language and illustrations in Nen and the Lonely Fisherman 🌈 🎣 🧜♂️
🤓 People often ask us how our book-based curriculum works. Here’s a little explanation of how it all fits together 👇
#TeachThroughaText #WritingRoots 🌳 #LiteraryLeaves 🍃 # #SpellingSeeds 🌱
literacytree.com/how-it-works/👉
🔰Our curriculum maps are FREE to download for everyone to use.
Our maps:
✏️Provide a suggested path of texts from R to Y6
✏️Show all the books we have for #WritingRoots , #LiteraryLeaves and #SpellingSeeds 🌳🍃🌱
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🖌️ It's World Art Day! Let's create something magical with two of our favourite books about art!🥰
✏️The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson and The First Drawing by Mordecai Gerstein. ✨
Both have #WritingRoots available for Members to download. 👇
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We have added new #WritingRoots to our overall Reception provision and with these new additions, we thought it high time to write about Literacy Tree in the early years setting. ☀️
Read about how #WritingRoots supports the phonics application here 👉
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🔰There is a #SpellingSeed 🌱 session for every week of the associated #WritingRoots .
For Children of the Benin Kingdom by dinahorji we look at:-
✏️Words with 'silent' letters
✏️Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
👉literacytree.com/spelling-seeds…
Ready for a day exploring how to #TeachThroughaText with Year 1 teachers around the globe, exemplifying the approach with one of our brand new #WritingRoots for the gorgeous Lubna and Pebble by Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour and Daniel Egneus ⛺️🌊🧺 Literacy Tree
🔰There is a Spelling Seed 🌱 session for every week of the associated #WritingRoots .
For Y3, Small in the City, by Sydney Smith, we look at the spelling rules and patterns:-
🌱The suffix -ly
🌱More prefixes (ir-, il,- im-, in-)
👉literacytree.com/spelling-seeds…
📚We use our #TeachThroughaText approach as the back bone for all our #WritingRoots .
Read about how it all works here 👇
literacytree.com/how-it-works/
We have been using the #WritingRoots in Y1 Redesdale Primary this year and the children have loved the texts and the outcomes have been amazing ✏️
🤓 People often ask us how our book-based curriculum works. Here’s a little explanation of how it all fits together 👇
#TeachThroughaText #WritingRoots 🌳
#LiteraryLeaves 🍃
#SpellingSeeds 🌱
👉literacytree.com/how-it-works/
Literacy Tree That's awesome! It's great to see how #WritingRoots is making a difference in schools' English programs. Keep up the amazing work!
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🤓 People often ask us how our book-based curriculum works. Here’s a little explanation of how it all fits together 👇
#TeachThroughaText #WritingRoots 🌳
#LiteraryLeaves 🍃
#SpellingSeeds 🌱
👉 literacytree.com/how-it-works/
🔰We love seeing all the published writing from the #WritingRoots 🥰
📸Please send pictures from your school and we can share them, as we know how useful this is to the whole #LiteracyTree community!
📲Download the app and share on there too!
🔰Our flagship schools, around the country, would be happy to show you how they use our #WritingRoots to compliment their own topics, support engagement and raise attainment in English with new schools changing their pedagogy and curriculum.
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Year 6 have written fantastic letters as if they were a pen pal of Anne Frank. They thoroughly enjoyed writing on this special paper like Anne would have. Writing Roots The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership (ATLP)
🔰There is a Spelling Seed 🌱 session for every week of the associated #WritingRoots .
✏️🌱For Y3, The Barnabus Project, by The Fan Brothers, we look at:-
✏️Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt -gue and the /k/ sound spelt -que
👉literacytree.com/spelling-seeds…
📚Looking for a book-based resource designed to help children catch up? ☀️
✨Our suite of Catch Up #WritingRoots use high-quality children's books as contexts to track back to objectives in previous years. Available to all members.
👉literacytree.com/catch-up-plann………
