English within the curriculum
Book and novel study guidance
A novel study is a set of resources that support children’s reading comprehension skills in guided reading groups or whole class sessions. Each driver project includes a novel study. A novel study may take a half term or a whole term to complete. In ...
English pack guidance
The English packs have been written by our in-house Primary English specialists, who have years of subject leader experience. The packs are based on a rigorous, progressive framework of skills, which was created by unpacking the national curriculum ...
How to plan using the English packs
An English pack is a set of resources that support children in writing a text type. Each of the Engage, Develop and Express stages of the history and geography driver projects includes an English pack. Tip: We advise that you read the article, ...
Rationale for the choice of text types in the English Packs
The National Curriculum English programmes of study for key stages 1 and 2 gives little direction about which text types to include in each year group: it references Year 2 pupils writing narratives, poetry, writing about real events and for ...