Literacy World

Inspiring, motivating and supporting you and your pupils since 1998 with a unique literacy solution of Shared Reading and Writing, Guided Reading, Speaking and Listening and ICT.

• The best fiction and non-fiction resources for whole-class reading and writing
• Fantastic fiction guided readers with superb authors and stories at three ability levels - perfect for all the children in your class
• Non-fiction texts that enable you to link your teaching to the wider curriculum
• Innovative teacher support that reflects the NLS & 5-14 guidelines on planning and teaching literacy
• Exciting whole-class software to make your shared reading lessons richer, fun and totally interactive

What makes Literacy World the best choice for Senior primary Pupils?

Shared Reading and Writing
Lively fiction and non-fiction Anthologies and Big Books, offering you all the resources you need for your shared reading and writing sessions.
Guided Reading
Fantastic fiction and non-fiction readers from superb authors which will really captivate all your pupils.
Literacy World Comets 
Fiction texts to really challenge and inspire your most able pupils.
Literacy World Satellites
Fiction and non-fiction readers to support and motivate your weaker readers.
Literacy World Interactive
Bringing literacy lessons to life on your whiteboard with a range of truly interactive fiction and non-fiction content for whole-class teaching
Supporting You
Guided Reading Handbooks and Teaching and Planning guides provide support and advice to help you deliver highly effective literacy lessons  

Shared Reading and Writing

Essential Anthologies

• Superb fiction, poetry and non-fiction texts, carefully chosen for their appeal, quality and their suitability to deliver a full range of teaching objectives
• Ideal models for developing children's own writing
• Provides the context for non-fiction over two or three weeks.

Big Books

Working in conjunction with the Essential Anthologies to provide a complete solution to whole class teaching and learning

• provides contrasting texts, poems and brand new texts
• Motivating model texts to develop essential writing skills
• Contrasting and supporting texts supplementing the Anthologies  
• provides models and scenarios for shared writing.

Teaching and Planning Guides

Comprehensive lesson notes to support planning using the Big Books and Anthologies

• Intergrated opportunities for speaking and listening activities
• Allow flexibility with a variety of units, optional lesson plans and activities for independent work
• Year 6 units for fiction, poetry and non-fiction 

Guided Reading Books

Stunning books with careful grading of text and comprehensive genre coverage mean that you can be confident of meeting the Framework objectives.

• Popular children's authors, such as Tony Mitton, Pie Corbett and Julia Donaldson.
• Thought-provoking issues introduced to stimulate discussion.
• Written specifically to reflect children's interests.
• Ideal for guided reading and extension work in groups.
• Progressively introduces a wide variety of non-fiction features
• Supported by a Guided Reading Handbook.

Literacy World Interactive

Literacy World Interactive adds a whole new dimension to your whole-class teaching!

A fiction and non-fiction CD for each stage of Literacy World provide all the big book content as electronic texts, plus offering interactive activities and multimedia content. Video clips, audio files, text and images are all linked to the units of work in the Teaching and Planning Guides.

Literacy World Comets provides:

• Books in a variety of genres with managable lengths
• Discussion tasks to aid children's independent reading sessions
• Comprehension and writing pack offering focused activities to turn verbal responses into writing.

Literacy World Satellites

• Structured progress in reading skills to encourage weaker readers and build reading confidence.
• engaging artwork to support the text
• Books at the right interest and emotional level, but with more accessible language.
• Simplified versions of the core non-fiction books
• A Guided Reading Card for every book, with a summary, key teaching objectives and practical teaching suggestions.

Reading and Language Skills Books
Satellites Reading and Language Skills Books provide follow-up activities for independent and group work, based on the Satellites Fiction Books.

Teacher's Guides
The Satellites Teacher's Guides provide suggestions on using Satellites alongside Literacy World, plus a comprehensive bank of differentiated worksheets.