We’re in Hollywood Primary School, Birmingham for a second day this week. Today we’re running live, in-person planning surgeries for class teachers to help get the best out of our #TeachThroughaText approach @literacytree.bsky.social

Golden feathers bringing the magic at our staff meeting on adapting planning @lingfieldprepschool today #teachingthroughatext #literacytree #firebird #saviourpirotta #sentencestripsgamechanger #scaffoldingwriting #rosenshine #zoneofpromiximaldevelopment

So lovely to see Grangehurst Primary, Coventry adopting the ‘Bring and Brag’ style of book-looks between staff. A great way to share and celebrate each year group’s achievements in writing so far this year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social

Back in school today face to face with the brilliant team at St Mark’s. Co-planning, looking through books and admiring some of the lovely displays and work children have already completed 4 weeks into the school year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social

Gorgeous to see Discovery Points immersing Y1 and Y2 children in new texts #theoddegg #toysinspace Classrooms were hives of purposeful talk, ambitious vocabulary and collaborative learning + pretty excited children, eager to write! #workingwalls @blackheathprepschool #teachthroughatext #literacytree

Thank you to the team at The British International School of Kuala Lumpur @nordanglia.bsky.social for hosting our visit this morning. The balance of nurture, community, excellence, academics, the arts, sport, values and so much more makes for an incredible setting! @literacytree.bsky.social

Fabulous to work with school leaders in Kensington & Chelsea this week, who are banging the drum for empowering children to find and express their own voice. #impactoforacy = hot topic #neilmercer #cambridgeuniversitypress #oracyascurriculum #keeplearning

Today, we were @vangoghprimaryschool - well, what a start to the new school year! Kicking off with the fabulous whole-school Writing Root #flowerblock, written by the wonderful #lanishabutterfield, the children are immersed! Incredible displays, writing and working walls - so much to celebrate

We are delivering our #TeachThroughaText in Year 1 sessions today - member schools this morning and EEF schools this afternoon. It’s dragons galore with @emmayarlett.bsky.social and Dragon Post ✉️ GORGEOUS book!! 📕 @literacytree.bsky.social

A joy to kick off my ‘Finding Their Story’ book clubs in both Stanley Grove and Jerry Clay Primaries today, both part of @accomplishmat.bsky.social A 4-week book club to help children find the books that make them tick the most #lovewhatIdo 🥰📚

What an incredibly strong start Belmont School in Harrow have got off to! Look at these displays spotted around school. Truly celebrating all writing and allowing children to become authors 📕 🖊️ #TeachThroughAText @literacytree.bsky.social

It was super fun delivering a session for @lb-southwark.bsky.social today for new English Subject Leads. We talked priorities, strategies and action plans. Next session: 25th November for all English leads in Southwark where we’ll consider what the New Writing 🖋️ Framework means for our schools 🏫

Today was @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText day 1 for year 2 teachers. Member schools joined this morning & our EEF cohort had their session this afternoon… in excess of a phenomenal 80(!) teachers attended to discuss literary cultures, audience & purpose and The 🐻 & The Piano 🎹 🌹

Another full day of meeting our lovely new schools online as they access our onboarding process ☺️. Looking forward to supporting such ambitious and passionate teachers and leaders on their LT journey! #getcreative @literacytree.bsky.social

We are LIVE! Live planning today, that is. Such a treat to work with new teachers and some familiar faces too. Our 15-minute, fortnightly sessions are available FREE for member schools and bookable via your dashboard 🏫 @literacytree.bsky.social Let us help you #TeachThroughaText

A joyful day of meeting some of my new Literacy Tree schools today as they have their initial onboarding meeting with me as their link consultant. Great to meet so many new schools from across the UK in one day and really looking forward to supporting them moving forwards! @literacytree.bsky.social

We’ve been at St Paul’s Primary in Walworth today seeing gorgeous books - evidence of children loving writing 2 weeks into their new term! @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText

We’re thoroughly enjoying our visit to Warmington Primary School in North Northants today. We’ve planned long term, daily and everything else in between to #TeachThroughaText in their mixed-age classrooms. Instant publishing on special paper all the way @literacytree.bsky.social

@literacyhannah.bsky.social Thought you might like to see this! It’s grrrrreat!! 🐅

Busy busy busy! Year 6 have categorised and organised our classroom book shelf! It seems we love to enter the world of fiction! Who wouldn't! 🤗🤩 @brunswickparkps.bsky.social @literacypippa.bsky.social

It’s a joy to return to High Peak in north Derbyshire today. We’re launching at Padfield Community Primary with the beautiful Fox 🦊 and the Star 🌟 by Coralie Bickford Smith… the school setting is perfect for being out in nature! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to be launching at South End Juniors School in Rushden today using The Wilderness but first just LOOK 👀 at the gorgeous learning environment here…#TeachThroughAText @literacytree.bsky.social

We’re excited to be spending the day at Kilby CE in Leicestershire! An introduction to Spelling Seeds so embedded spelling opportunities can be capitalised upon across their small school setting 🏫 🖊️ #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social

It was super tricky to whittle down the many books we’ve kindly been sent by publishers for our August edit. SO much choice! Here are just six brilliant, newly or soon-to-be published children’s books. Blogpost coming soon! @literacytree.bsky.social @peters-books.bsky.social #bookblogger #kidlit

We’ve a jam-packed day today - already underway - of lives and onboards. SO lovely to meet teachers all over the country and beyond to help start their stories! @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText

So many gorgeous newly or soon-to-be published books 📚 received from publishers via our partnership with @peters-books.bsky.social … We can’t wait to sit down with a cuppa and curate our August literature review! @literacytree.bsky.social #bookbloggers #picturebooks #middlegradenovels #kidlit

We loved visiting Grangehurst in Coventry earlier this week. So many gorgeous writing displays. Here’s their take on Flotsam by David Weisner… such a clever way of theming a display board to match writing’s audience and purpose! 📷 🐟 🌊 @theliteracytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText

Today we’re giving our Writing Root for the poignant, FArTHER, a little glow-up. Written & illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith, the book won the Kate Greenaway medal in 2011. In our Root refresh, expect even more detail than before to help you #TeachThroughaText @theliteracytree.bsky.social

🌈 Book 24 for #PrideMonth: Jamie by @ldlapinski.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤A powerful, heartfelt story about identity, friendship & finding your voice as a non-binary teen. Honest, uplifting & essential reading. 🌟 #Jamie #LGBTQBooks #PrideMonth #RepresentationMatters @cilip.bsky.social @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social

Today we’re putting the finishing touches to our Online Launch 🚀 Training Day: join live or purchase a whole-school recording. This could be how you start YOUR story. Book via your dashboard ⬇️ @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText

THREAD Our Diverse Educators event is happening tomorrow at Highgate School Really looking forward to seeing all of our speakers, exhibitors and delegates. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/8443655089... #DiverseEd

LAST CHANCE: FREE LIVE DEMO AND Q&A! Intrigued by our comprehensive, book-based approach? Join our founders and co-CEOs, Lynn + Anthony, for a 1 hour introductory webinar. When? Tomorrow, 1.30PM. Where? Zoom Sign up here: literacytree.com/training/cou... #TeachThroughaText #LiteracyMatters

Happy Summer 2! I kicked the half term off earlier this week with an Inset day at Pear Tree Primary in Nantwich. It was so wonderful to see how staff and children are really leaning into the power of publishing there ☺️👏 @literacytree.bsky.social

A little behind the scenes look at what we’re up to @literacytree.bsky.social this morning: a refresh of our Writing Root for the glorious book, Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham with illustrations by Juan Wijngaard @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

Today is the day! Fidan Meikle's stunning debut, #MyNameIsSamim is OUT NOW! Today, Fidan is on a tour of some of #Edinburgh's lovely bookshops, including @goldenharebooks.bsky.social @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social - pop in to grab a signed copy! discoverkelpies.co.u...

With Summer 2 term right around the corner, we've headed to the Literacy Tree archives for some inspiration! 🤩 Julian is a Mermaid is an award-winning story by Jess Love, providing a context to discuss creativity, fashion and self-expression. 🧜‍♀️ Will you be reading it with your Y1s this Summer?

Shout out to @zeynepozatalay.bsky.social who created the cover art for Fidan Meikle's #MyNameIsSamim. We love the dramatic lighting in the sky and the gorgeous colour pop of the orange life jacket. Would you pick this up in your local bookshop? #BookCover #AmReading #MiddleGrade

We adore working with teachers in our Live Planning pop-in sessions (included in your membership). First up today was a school in Norfolk and the glorious book Stanley’s Stick by #JohnHegley and #NeilLayton @literacytree.bsky.social

We had an engaging & inspirational conversation with our SEND, Disability & Neurodivergence representation panel this afternoon. So many wonderful ideas & success stories to help us @literacytree.bsky.social develop support for inclusive practice #SEND

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🚨 FINAL CALLl! 🚨 Spaces on Literacy Tree’s EEF trial are filling up fast! But what’s it all about - and what will your school receive as part of this exciting literacy trial? ⭐ ✍ Join our co-founders live tomorrow for one of the FINAL information webinars. We'd love to bring you on board!🚂💪

Year 5s at Gorsewood Primary in Runcorn have been using sentence strips to experiment with dashes for parenthesis and sentence structure. ✍️ #teaching #teachingenglish #teachingideas #teachersofinstagram #teachergram #teachingresources #teachingtips #primaryteacher #primaryschool

Today we’re reading these three beauties, amongst others, for our June Pride Month Review: Pride is STILL a protest … it needs to be!BUT we hold onto hope for the future with life-changing literature @literacytree.bsky.social #LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Congratulations to the authors and illustrators on the longlist for this year's Little Rebels Award! A prize celebrating radical fiction for children, which we're proud to help coordinate with @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Browse the list: uk.bookshop.org/lists/little... #LittleRebelsAward

Our #WorkingWall of the week comes from Hope + Edale Primaries, Derbyshire. Teachers used our Mixed Age Planning suggestions to adapt our resource for their Yr 4-6 class. Working Walls can can be especially transformative in mixed age settings, freeing up teachers to work closely with more children.

Thank you to the staff at The Grange Academy in Runcorn for having me today! So lovely to see writing celebrated as a priority in corridors and shared spaces ☺️. @literacytree.bsky.social

This morning I’m enjoying working on our Literacy Tree Writing Root for the beautifully written ‘The Last Bear’ by Hannah Gold.

Looking to get a head start before September? Our Online Launch Training Day, on the 2nd of July, has you covered! 🚀 ✨ At just £300, our whole day session is an affordable way to get your training in ahead of the Summer break. 🔗 Find out more: literacytree.com/training/cou...

Such a brilliant first meeting! Looking forward to the next one already, where Hannah will lead a discussion on 'Listening to the Quiet' by Cassie Silva and 'Jakub's Otter' by Coral Rumble. 📚 Book your space for June's session now: literacytree.com/training/cou...