The Literacy Engine

🚨April resources are now LIVE🚨

This month features:
⚙️ NATO
⚙️ The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
⚙️ Mackenzie Scott
⚙️ How much money £1billion really is

We equip young people with the essential knowledge to comprehend the world around them
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🚨April resources are now LIVE🚨

This month features:
⚙️ NATO
⚙️ The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
⚙️ Mackenzie Scott
⚙️ How much money £1billion really is

We equip young people with the essential knowledge to comprehend the world around them
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

ICYMI This Week's Blog
Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy?

We have a vast wealth of expertise in education across academia and classroom practice with experts across the board. But which experts should we listen to?
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ICYMI This Week's Blog
Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy?

We have a vast wealth of expertise in education across academia and classroom practice with experts across the board. But which experts should we listen to?
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

Excellent summary of where the expertise of academic researchers vs classroom-based practitioners lies, and why it can be hard to bring together.

Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy? - The Literacy Engine Academic Expert in Literacy vs. School‑Based Expert in Leading LiteracyThe worlds of academia and school based practice should be thriving together in the modern era of research informed teaching and ...

New Blog Alert
Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy?

We have a vast wealth of expertise in education across academia and classroom practice with experts across the board. But which experts should we listen to?
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy? - The Literacy Engine Academic Expert in Literacy vs. School‑Based Expert in Leading LiteracyThe worlds of academia and school based practice should be thriving together in the modern era of research informed teaching and ...

New Blog Alert
Which Experts Should Be Leading Literacy?

We have a vast wealth of expertise in education across academia and classroom practice with experts across the board. But which experts should we listen to?
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

🚨New Resources Alert🚨

March is now online featuring:
⚙️ Should social media influencers be more accountable for their content?
⚙️ Castle Bravo
⚙️ Aretha Franklin
⚙️ Have you ever wondered what taxes are spent on?

Comprehension starts with powerful knowledge
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

🚨New Resources Alert🚨

March is now online featuring:
⚙️ Should social media influencers be more accountable for their content?
⚙️ Castle Bravo
⚙️ Aretha Franklin
⚙️ Have you ever wondered what taxes are spent on?

Comprehension starts with powerful knowledge
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/ge...

ICYMI This week's blog takes a look at how we can start to bridge the cultural disadvantage gap via reading.

Includes 5 evidence based strategies to use in your classroom.
#GetReadingIntoIt

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ICYMI This week's blog takes a look at how we can start to bridge the cultural disadvantage gap via reading.

Includes 5 evidence based strategies to use in your classroom.
#GetReadingIntoIt

literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

🚨New Blog🚨
Closing the Disadvantage Gap

We must not confuse disadvantage with inability. What interventions can we use to close the disadvantage gap & equip students with the rich knowledge they need to comprehend the curriculum & the world around them?
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🚨New Blog🚨
Closing the Disadvantage Gap

We must not confuse disadvantage with inability. What interventions can we use to close the disadvantage gap & equip students with the rich knowledge they need to comprehend the curriculum & the world around them?
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

Get Reading Into It - The Literacy Engine Get Reading Into ItIn many classrooms, reading has quietly slipped from its central position. Screens have filled the gap. A short YouTube clip to “engage”, a recap video to save time, an animated exp...

In a world where screens and scrolling dominate the early development of too many children, get them out of your lessons and #GetReadingIntoIt.

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Get Reading Into It - The Literacy Engine Get Reading Into ItIn many classrooms, reading has quietly slipped from its central position. Screens have filled the gap. A short YouTube clip to “engage”, a recap video to save time, an animated exp...

In a world where screens and scrolling dominate the early development of too many children, get them out of your lessons and #GetReadingIntoIt.

literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

With Curriculum Cogs, we took the entire KS3 national curriculum for Geography, History, & Science and created extended reading packs for every single topic. There really is no excuse for driving reading from our classrooms.
#GetReadingIntoIt!

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🚨New Blog Alert🚨

Get Reading Into It

We examine some of the barriers to reading for pleasure, and dig into some of the classroom practice that puts reading on the sideline.

There's also 5 Top Tips to get reading into your lessons!
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ICYMI Here's this week's blog offering practical classroom strategies to get reading into your lessons across the curriculum. This week, pledge to ditch YouTube just once and #GetReadingIntoIt

ICYMI Here's this week's blog offering practical classroom strategies to get reading into your lessons across the curriculum. This week, pledge to ditch YouTube just once and #GetReadingIntoIt

🚨New Blog Alert🚨

Get Reading Into It

We examine some of the barriers to reading for pleasure, and dig into some of the classroom practice that puts reading on the sideline.

There's also 5 Top Tips to get reading into your lessons!
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

And this is why our resources are pdf not some digital platform. The experience of reading words on paper, discussing content, and questioning language in a paper based text is one of the most powerful learning experiences a student can have.
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And this is why our resources are pdf not some digital platform. The experience of reading words on paper, discussing content, and questioning language in a paper based text is one of the most powerful learning experiences a student can have.
Literacyengine.co.uk

The Literacy Engine The Literacy Engine - Driving Literacy Across The Curriculum. Weekly extended reading packs to embed reading in Form Tutor Time and # across the curriculum. Disciplinary Literacy in action

Spent the morning planning, writing resources, and working on admin for @literacyengine.bsky.social. I am properly excited by some of the things we have in store for 2026 from new packs to new CPD. #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearOfReading
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With Curriculum Cogs, we took the entire KS3 national curriculum for Geography, History, & Science and created extended reading packs for every single topic. There really is no excuse for driving reading from our classrooms.
#GetReadingIntoIt!

literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/cu...

ICYMI here's yesterday's blog.

"Why Reading for Pleasure Takes More Than a Love of Books"

We expend a vast amount of time, energy, & resources in the pursuit of the mythical "love of reading". Is it time well spent? What can we do instead?

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Why Reading for Pleasure Takes More Than a Love of Books - The Literacy Engine Why Reading for Pleasure Takes More Than a Love of BooksIn secondary schools, reading for pleasure is often driven by the best of intentions. As teachers, and especially those of us that teach English...

A short blog from me to ease into the #NationalYearOfReading.

"Why Reading for Pleasure Takes More Than a Love of Books"

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As we enter January our students will read about age restricted content, where money gets its value, and the right to protest.

Young people need arming with knowledge of the world around them & how it works so they can thrive safely as adults.

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CURRICULUM COGS - The Literacy Engine Curriculum Cogs are a collection of subject specific extended reading texts aligned broadly to the KS3 curriculum. Each topic pack contains multiple texts totalling 171 across all three subject areas....

Before asking students to get reading into their leisure time, we need to get reading back into lesson time.

Make 2026 the year you ditch YouTube and bring reading back to the top of the class.

Check out our Curriculum Cogs to get you started.

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🚨New Resources Alert 🚨
February is now online including:
⚙️How to spot manipulative online behaviour
⚙️What are deep fakes?
⚙️What is misinformation?

The eagle eyed amongst you will spot the first update in our "Get Reading Into It" campaign too! 🙊🤫
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Our extended reading model and the study of non-fiction texts provide a powerful & evidence-based method for teaching PSHE, SMSC, British Values, and Citizenship topics.

Drop us a message to start the discussion about how we can help you today! #Literacy
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