Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter

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By regularly introducing contemporary books into the English curriculum, we can best ensure that we meet the needs and interests of our children and can continue to reflect their realities in rich and representative ways.

Offers opportunity for progression and challenge (for example, how a book at the start of the year can support transition, while one at the end might build stamina). We have loved being part of this learning this year and it has been one of the best training courses that I have ever been on. We will never move away from Power of Reading, it has been transformational in our school, for staff and the pupils." Carrie Hyland, Assistant Headteacher, Northwood Community Primary Because we introduce new books and associated teaching sequences to each Key Stage every year, we regularly review the Power of Reading content. We will revise these English Curriculum maps every summer to reflect this and we recommend that our member schools do so too. This is my first year using CLPE planning and I have to say that I feel that my English teaching has greatly improved. I am more enthusiastic in my teaching, my pupils have become more engaged, and there is far more speaking, listening, vocabulary, drama, role-play, art and writing woven throughout my teaching" Joanna Shobbrook, Year 5/6 Teacher, St Michael’s Primary School.They provide a model for schools to develop their own English curriculum maps, based on text choices that would best suit the needs, interests and experiences of their own children. Ensures that there is a balance of human themes, cross-curricular opportunities and forms of extended writing outcomes. These English curriculum maps demonstrate how you can select books and plan for progression within and across year groups to develop children’s experience and understanding of a range of literary forms, wider knowledge of the world, empathy for the human experience and language competency. CLPE School Membership gives your whole school access to detailed literacy planning for a wide range of high-quality children’s books, examples of curriculum maps to show how to plan a text based curriculum and accompanying home learning resources. These combined resources provide ideas, inspiration and structure for your literacy curriculum, raising literacy standards and developing a love of reading and writing. Each year our expert teaching team add new plans and regularly update current planning to match statutory requirements giving your whole school a growing resource at an affordable cost. Built on 50 years of CLPE’s research, the Power of Reading explores the impact high-quality literature has on children’s engagement and attainment as readers and the link between reading and children’s writing development, supported by creative teaching approaches to develop a whole-school curriculum, which fosters a love of reading and writing to raise achievement in literacy.

Provides pupils in each year group with exposure to a broad range of literary forms, such as at least one form of fiction (picturebooks, short stories and novels); a poetry collection or anthology; a traditional tale; and a non-fiction text.

In engaging with the Power of Reading training, teachers and English Leads are supported further to consider how they might design an English curriculum that: