Our Writing Curriculum
At Kilby St Mary's we have implemented 'Literacy Tree' as our approach to teaching writing.
Literacy Tree is a complete book-based approach with resources for Primary English including Writing, Reading and Spelling.
We implement Literacy Tree’s writing resource and programme, Writing Roots, based around a Teach Through a Text pedagogy because it 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 immerses children in a range of literary worlds and themes, heightening engagement and creates 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, delivered over a 2 year rolling programme provides opportunities to explore writing conventions, which are embedded, and applied 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.