We featured Jane Goodall's work in April this year as one of our inspirational individuals. The world is a better place thanks to her work. #RIPJaneGoodall literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

Are still using "Drop Everything And Read"? Has your novel based tutor time reading programme lost its momentum? If the answer is yes, please drop us a message. We can help you better harness that time & create a culture of reading across your curriculum literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/co...

We enter October this week and #BlackHistoryMonth Our students will read about: ⚙️ The Race Relations Act ⚙️ The Bristol Bus Boycott 1963 ⚙️ Mae Jemison ⚙️ The European Convention on Human Rights How do your students start their day? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

🚨⚙️NEW RESOURCES ALERT⚙️🚨 November Gears of Thought is now live! ⚙️ European Convention on Human Rights ⚙️ Conspiracy Theories ⚙️ Freddie Mercury ⚙️ The ISS How do your students start their day? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

How often do students encounter new information in your subject via reading? How often is it a YouTube video? We've covered the entire KS3 curriculum for Geography, History, and Science & share a topic every month. September's pack is "1066". literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

Drop Everything And Read. At @researchED1 I shared this definition of the practice then shared where I'd adapted it from. English teaching is one of the last hiding places of Discovery Learning and needs to be weeded out by the roots. Our students deserve better. @literacyengine.bsky.social

This week we engage students with reading and discussion around loot boxes and microtransactions in video games. It is important that young people are self aware about how this form of hidden gambling can quickly become addictive.

What we crafted was an evidence based Interactive Read Aloud model that puts knowledge and fluency building at the heart of a cross curricular model for reading across the secondary curriculum.

We looked at evidence based pedagogical theory and applied it to help shape our model. We took Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction and built a model for reading across the curriculum.

When we created our Interactive Read Aloud model, we started with the evidence of what works well. We knew some of the most common practices used to develop reading across a secondary school were having no impact, so we researched what was.

A Tutor Time reading programme involves more than just giving tutors a set of novels & saying "read this aloud". Our programme provides support, PSHE mapping, oracy & debate strategies, and differentiated text levels throughout. It is built for success! literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

Simon, it was a great session. Thank you for your presentation--you pithily and humourously articulated so many of my views! We'll be expanding on our LE rollout from last year; I look forward to touching base in more detail about practice--and maybe even some CPD.

If you want to know more about how your Tutor Time reading programme could be super charged by our evidence based, knowledge rich programme, try our FREE sample packs. There may even be a cheeky discount for @researchED1 attendees if you drop us a message literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/fr...

Session 4 in M26 @researchED1! Myth busting, research wrangling, and evidence in action. Let's deromanticise reading! See you there, folks! 👋 Literacyengine.co.uk

There's still time to join us for this academic year. Drop us a message today, and we could be helping to transform your Tutor Time reading programme by the end of the week. Here's what your students could benefit from with us: literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

We hit the ground running in Week 1 with topics including: 📊 What is the difference between privatised and nationalised companies? ▶️ Why were YouTube fined over children’s data? 👸 Princess Diana 🍲 Have you ever wondered what makes food “organic”? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

🚨⚙️New Resources Alert⚙️🚨 October resources are now live, including: ⚙️ The Race Relations Act ⚙️ The Bristol Bus Boycott 1963 ⚙️ Mae Jemison ⚙️ The Cuban Missile Crisis How do your students start their day? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

I'm getting some final bits ready for my session @researchED1 next weekend. I'll be digging into some of the myths around Reading for Pleasure & the evidence that shapes them before looking at a whole school model for reading across the secondary curriculum. Come say hi! 👋

Cognitive overload affects teachers too, especially when teaching out of specialism Our Tool Box is designed with practical, evidence based classroom strategies at the core to empower teachers across the curriculum to become confident teachers of literacy literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/to...

Our FREE General Election Sample pack gives a good example of how our Core packs are supported by Simplified Language Versions for weaker readers. It also shows how Development Cogs maps PSHE, SMSC, British Values, & Citizenship objectives against a text. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

September 2025 adds over 30 new resources to our existing catalogue, giving our members access to dozens of topics each week. Drop us a message today to find out how September 2025 could be the start of your year of reading. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

As the new year starts, your staff can keep our Engine Room close to guide them through their delivery of whole class reading regardless of their curriculum specialism Evidence based, practical strategies ensure purpose & impact in reading sessions literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/th...

September includes topics ranging from nationalised vs privatised companies to the launch of Star Trek and its cultural impact. We help students explore significant events and important individuals, & build crucial foundational knowledge. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

You can now compare our Core pack with the Simplified Language Version side by side on the FREE samples page. You can also see how Development Cogs maps PSHE, SMSC, British Values, & Citizenship objectives against our resources every week. Try it here: literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/fr...

If those reports are going to be written by AI (as I saw loads of on here this year) they are absolutely 0% useful.

🚨⚙️NEW RESOURCES ALERT⚙️🚨 September includes: ⚙️Princess Diana ⚙️The cultural significance of Star Trek ⚙️Microtransactions in video games ⚙️The discovery of penicillin We help your students build the vocabulary & foundational knowledge essential for life. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

And that's a wrap on the 2024/25 school year! 40 weeks 160 topics 320+ texts 40 Debate Drive resources The launch of Development Cogs What an epic year! See you in September for our biggest year yet! We can't wait to share what we have planned! 🙊 literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

A few weeks ago, we joined 5.8 million other metal heads to watch his #BackToTheBeginning show on live stream. It felt like both a celebration and a farewell. Absolute legend. #RIPOzzy 🤘💔

There is still time to lock in your 2025/26 membership and unlock hundreds of non-fiction reading resources to embed across your curriculum. Join now and pay in September to ensure you are ready to go when the new year starts. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

It is brilliant to see @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social launching the 2026 Year of Reading. Our programme is built with secondary aged students in mind who do not read at home. For them, access to books is not enough. It needs a whole school response. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

The best way to see what we do and how it might embed into your literacy strategy is by checking out our FREE samples. You'll see the types of texts we supply every week and how they map against PSHE, SMSC, British Values, and Citizenship objectives. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/fr...

Development Cogs maps at least one of our resources against objectives in: ✅️ PSHE ✅️ SMSC ✅️ British Values ✅️ Citizenship Using non-fiction reading to drive personal development and debate can turn your Tutor Time into a reading powerhouse! literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/de...

We have 2 great offers running until the end of July: 🗓 Join now! Pay in September! 🔟 10% discount for both schools when you introduce a friend Our knowledge rich non-fiction reading programme lays the foundations on which literacy skills are built. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

Growing up in the 80s and 90s really was an epic time musically, wasn't it? That Prodigy set was 🔥! #Glastonbury2025

This show from The Prodigy should have been lifting the roof off the Pyramid stage right now. #Glastonbury2025

Join us now and defer payment until September! You will receive: ✔️ 320+ new resources across the year ✔️ Access to the full 640+ resource back catalogue ✔️ Engine Room support guide ✔️ Development Cogs mapping ✔️ Debate Drive ✔️ Oracy Engine literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

Two full years of knowledge rich, extended reading resources laid out in full. Your 2025/26 membership gives you access to every single one of the 640+ resources immediately. And another 320 across next academic year! Browse them all here: literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

The role of Form Tutor is absolutely immense in its diversity. Helping students comprehend & navigate the complex issues of the world around them is at its core. We equip tutors with the resources & strategies needed to succeed in this crucial role. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

How big is #Glastonbury2025? If my school was in the centre, it would cover the whole of our community! 😲 gsp8181.co.uk/glasto/

This week, our students are reading about: 🎶 Glastonbury 🛳 The Windrush Generation 🎤 Michael Jackson ⚖️ How the US government should work How do your students start their day? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

Oasis night on BBC2 taking me right back to the 90s. What a time to be a teenager!

Our programme is built on the best evidence available around successful whole class reading strategies. From Rosenshine to the EEF report on improving literacy in secondary schools, we take strategies proven to work and harness them across the curriculum. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/th...

I genuinely hoped that I'd be wrong about the School 21 approach because I just really liked the idea that there could be lots of different sorts of good on one happy ecosystem. I'm pretty confident this is just utopian thinking now though.

On keeping ones head when all around . . . you know the rest

Schools are in limbo as they await the outcome of the curriculum review and the introduction of a new Ofsted framework. So, how should leaders react to this uncertainty? @greeborunner.bsky.social‬ shares her advice

The new approach to School 21 seems to be to run it like a normal school, but to rebrand common approaches used perfectly well in other schools. And so ends another radical rethinking of how to run a secondary school, not with a bang but with a whimper. Until the next one comes along...

By popular demand, you can now defer payment until new budgets are released in September. That offer applies to both new members AND renewals. Check out our full 2025/26 package here: literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

Development Cogs is our personal development blueprint, mapping our resources against PSHE, SMSC, British Values, and Citizenship objectives. Your students will explore challenging topics via extended reading and structured discussion across the curriculum. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/de...

One of the core reasons we are seeing Tutor Time reading programmes lose momentum is the "just do it" effect. Reading to students requires carefully planned & evidence informed strategies that empower teachers to become successful teachers of reading. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...