Writing 

At King’s Ford Academy, we have implemented ‘Literacy Tree’ as an approach to supplement our teaching of writing.

Literacy Tree is a complete, book-based platform, covering all Primary English curriculum requirements. We use it as a framework to support us to build our curriculum and adapt it to suit the needs of our children.

Core Offering

Writing Roots: The book-based planning sequences allows us to provide comprehensive curriculum coverage that is engaging for children allowing them to write with a clear audience and purpose. This forms the backbone of our Teach Through a Text pedagogy.

Literacy Tree’s writing resource and programme, Writing Roots, based around our Teach Through a Text pedagogy, embeds all National Curriculum requirements and places 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. This is achieved by immerseing 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. 

An English lesson at King’s Ford Academy would include:

• Fun and engagement through high quality genres and texts;
• High expectations and challenge for all, support through appropriate scaffolding materials;
• Collaboration and reflection between peers;
• First quality teaching from all adults, with groups of learners supported in lessons.