Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter

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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. The CPD is fantastic and has really got me thinking about my department and the curriculum in a way I haven't thought of in the past. It's a real help. Thank you." PoR Online attendee 2021

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:

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. The CLPE English curriculum maps have been devised to support Primary schools in developing a quality book-based English Curriculum, centred around the Power of Reading. 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.

Four free examples of what this looks like in practice for different Key Stages can be viewed in the supporting materials below. This four day programme shows teachers how to build a book-based curriculum by putting children’s literature at the heart of their primary English curriculum. The programme develops teachers’ subject knowledge and understanding of proven pedagogical approaches. Ensures that there is a balance of human themes, cross-curricular opportunities and forms of extended writing outcomes. CLPE school membership enables access to our Power of Reading book recommendations and teaching resources. The Power of Reading enables Primary schools to build a quality book-based English curriculum across all Key Stages.This report details the impact of our flagship training programme, The Power of Reading which is centred around the importance of using quality texts as the basis for English planning and quality teaching and to provide reflective professional development.