English at Laddingford

At Laddingford, English is taught through the use of Literacy Tree. Literacy Tree is a complete book-based approach, including the teaching of Reading Comprehension, Writing and Spelling. 

 

Writing, Reading Comprehension and Spelling are taught using the 'teach through a text' pedagogy, embedding all National Curriculum requirements, placing audience and purpose at the core. 

 

Literacy Tree’s primary focus through its book-based pedagogy is to motivate children to write for a range of audiences and purposes using high-quality, diverse children’s literature by significant authors. We do this by helping schools immerse children in a range of literary worlds and themes, heightening engagement and creating curiosity through process drama, discussion and debate. This allows them to see themselves represented, and also explore the lives and experiences of others.The carefully-planned sequences of lessons provide opportunities to explore writing conventions, which are embedded, and apply them into authentic writing for a range of real-life audiences. The writing outcomes are chosen for their pertinence and relevance to the particular point in the text (not chosen for their ‘genre’), marrying the writing opportunity with the relevant conventions so that children see the purpose in the skills learnt. Skills and outcomes are revisited to practise and consolidate learning.

 

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