What's in Literacy Evolve?

Picture books|   Real novels|   Single-voice poetry|   Films|   I-Planner Online|   Teaching Guides|  Interactive Teaching Resources|   Author videos|

 

Literacy Evolve is a literacy programme designed for use across the whole school, at KS1 and KS2 (First & Second Level). Literacy Evolve includes picture books, real novels, short stories, poetry collections, short films, an interactive teaching resource and an online planning tool.

 

Stunning picture books

Your kids will love the great picture books by famous authors and illustrators such as Allan Ahlberg and Anthony Browne. They're also available in electronic format for use on your interactive whiteboard.

 

The best 'real' novels

Literacy Evolve gives you the best of the best 'real' novels at KS2, with award-winning authors like Michael Morpurgo, widely acclaimed titles such as The Spiderwick Chronicles and lesser-known gems like The Eye of the Wolf.

 

 

From Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, Year 3 (P4) Novel

 

Original poetry collections

|Each poetry collection is dedicated to the voice of two brilliant poets, such as Roger McGough, Benjamin Zephaniah, Michael Rosen, Ted Hughes and more. The collections are presented as personal journals so your children will really get to the heart of what makes each poet tick, why they write and how they write.

 

From Benjamin Zephaniah's Collected Poems, Year 6 (P7) Poetry

 

Powerful short films for infants and juniors

Literacy Evolve harnesses the power of film to engage all the children in your class. Stimulating, thought-provoking films will get children talking, learning and writing and are a perfect way to develop their visual literacy skills.

 

 

The flexible I-Planner helps you to make the support your own

This adaptable online planning and assessment tool allows you to teach your way and according to the needs of your class. You can tailor ready-made, curriculum-linked lesson plans to suit your needs.

It includes tools for assessing pupils' progress, teaching assistant notes and lots of extra resources, including editable PCMs, topic links, word & sentence level boosters and further reading lists.

From I-Planner Online, Year 4 (P5)

 

Teaching Guides packed with ideas

Literacy Evolve has fantastic teaching support to help you teach in a creative and exciting way. The notes are packed with ideas to spark children's creativity and develop their literacy skills. Each guide contains lots of ideas for visual literacy, open-ended questioning and full matching to Assessment Foci to help with APP and AiFL.

From Literacy Evolve Teaching Guide, Year 4 (P5)

 

Interactive teaching resources to enhance your lessons

Literacy Evolve includes an interactive Teaching Resource (ITR) CD for each year group, which contains a whole host of additional materials for your literacy lessons. You'll find all the films for that year group, electronic versions of the KS1 picture books (for use on your whiteboard), videos of author interviews, poetry performances and readings. There is also lots of additional stimuli including short stories, artwork, photos and interactive teaching pages to help you structure and support your lessons.

 

You can download our handy ITR Help Guide| to get you started, with practical advice on how to use the videos, how to annotate the electronic picture books and more.

 

Take a look at some of the extra material available on the ITR CDs

These additional stimulus clips are from Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions (one of our Year 6 novels):

• Listen to Frank Cottrell Boyce talking about his novel Millions
• Hear Frank reading a chapter from Millions
• Hear his views on ‘the author’