Your school development partner for achieving excellence in English and literacy.

Working with you to transform teaching and learning through the use of rich texts and powerful pedagogy.

School development

Join the 700+ schools across the UK and internationally that have benefited from our award-winning resources and consultancy support.

Our approach will empower you to take control of your development and positively impact learning for all students. Work with us at all stages of your journey, from planning for change through to implementation and review.

Our award-winning research-informed resources will enhance teaching and learning and save teachers time so they can focus their attention where it is most needed.

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Our dialogic underpinning of teaching and learning has an impact beyond the English curriculum.
Our highly experienced and qualified team draws on collective expertise to ensure we work with you at a deep, sustainable level.
Subscribers have access to a bank of resources informed by research and developed with experts, teachers, and writers.
Our lead schools have gone on to win national literacy awards. Schools report improved results and positive feedback from inspections.

“We just wanted to let you know about our KS2 SATs reading results. This year 93% reached expected with 60% at greater depth. Our best reading results ever.〞

Choose from our award-winning programmes

We have distilled our learning from 30 years of school-based development and action research into three distinct programmes that can be used individually or in concert.

A ground-breaking, research-informed programme for teaching reading and English beyond the beginning stages. It covers the reading requirements of the English National Curriculum.

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A framework structured to lead children towards deeper reading with real-world impact. Creating readers for a life beyond school.
100+ customisable sequences covering years 1 – 6 to help you choose your learning pathway
Our framework explicitly addresses reader response and engagement, literal and elaborative comprehension, reading fluency, dialogue and discussion, and text-to-world application.
Carefully curated text selection to ensure progression and broad coverage across all genres, with exciting new texts added each year.

Enhance your reading-for-pleasure pedagogy in KS2 and KS3. Includes our award-winning The Reading Journey app to support the development of students’ reading identities.

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Deepen your book talk and embed reading for pleasure with our Reading Journey training
Includes subscription to The Reading Journey digital bookshelf for all students in your school.
Access your school dashboard for insights into children’s reading patterns.
Promote positive reading behaviours to set children up for their future reading lives.

An award-winning book club for children in years 2 – 6. There are two formats that suit different readers’ needs.

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Reading Gladiators builds reading stamina and takes readers on a journey through the year, from quick wins to more reflective reading, broadening their book knowledge and choice of books.
Reading Gladiators Power-up focuses on high-interest themes and books to engage less avid readers.
Subscription includes access to all resources (books purchased separately).
Includes week-by-week discussion and activity guide for ease of use.