Whilst we try very hard to ensure that the books we use are in print and readily available, from time to time books will finish print runs and bookshops may not stock them. Very occasionally books go out of print (OOP) altogether and cannot be supplied new. We would always recommend talking to your local independent bookshop owner to find out current availability. Sometimes third-party sellers, through online bookshops, may be able to get hold of new or second-hand copies of texts.
We also offer alternative text on the specific Writing Root/ Reading Leaf if books are OOP.
Our resources do not include physical copies of books, but they are all book-based.
A school membership gives you our Tools for Subject Leaders (e.g, curriculum overviews and links with other subjects) to support you the suggested books in your school, but it does not include physical copies of the books. Our partner booksellers are Peters with whom you will receive up to a 30-32% discount if ordered via the link on our site.
Literacy Tree Writing Roots, Spelling Seeds, Reading Leaves, Vines and Home Learning Branches are online-only resource. All files can be downloaded and printed and can be accessed and annotated using the Literacy Tree app.
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If you hold a whole-school membership, you can view and download plans from individual resource pages. You can also click the heart icon to save the resource to your dashboard to revisit later. If you have an individual membership you can pay for resources using a credit/debit card or using membership tokens (for monthly subscribers). You can view and redownload your resources via your My Work tab on your dashboard at any point.
Click on the 'Forgot Password' link on the log in page, you'll be asked to add your email address then you'll be sent a link to reset.
Resources purchased via a school membership will no longer be available to download from your account dashboard. Your membership acts as a to use these resources. For individual members, all tokens and resources will stay in your account indefinitely after cancellation.
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If a user has an existing Individual or Free Membership, and you add them to a school membership account, you will be prompted to send them an email asking them to join your School Membership. They will have 30 days to respond to the invitation. Once they have accepted, any Individual Membership payments will be stopped and they will become part of your School Membership. If the School Membership expires, their account will be returned to a Free Membership, and they will be able to access any previously downloaded resources, but not resources added to their account within the School Membership.
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Every year group includes at least one Writing Root using a poetry text. These are usually narrative poems such as Night Mail in Y6, Jabberwocky in Y4, Jim, A Cautionary Tale in Y3, or The Owl and the Pussy-cat in Y2. Within these sequences children have opportunities to write poetry as well as other types of writing that stem from the poem such as letters and diaries, as well as specific work on comprehension or literary language. We have chosen these because their narrative form lends itself to engagement across an extended period in a similar way to narrative prose.
As well as this, many other Writing Roots include explicit opportunities for poetry reading and writing within the sequence of learning, such as within Can We Save the Tiger in Year 6, children study The Tyger by William Blake and within The Tempest children study and learn some of Shakespeare’s poetry. There are also other opportunities within specific sequences to write poems such as within Cinnamon, children write limericks to mirror the one within the book.
Alongside this, Literacy Tree includes works by poet laureates such Carol Ann Duffy and Ted Kooser. In terms of reading comprehension, Literary Leaves offer opportunities for the discrete study of poems and poetic from Year 2 onwards. There are poetry collections from significant poets as well as anthologies around a theme.
Across Literacy Tree there are specific non-fiction texts including information books (The Great Fire of London), illustrated biographies (Pride, The Man who Walked between the Towers), fictional explanations (Until I Met Dudley) and narrative non-fiction (Can We Save the Tiger?). These lead to a variety of longer and shorter fiction, non-fiction and poetry outcomes depending on the context. Other non-fiction outcomes are covered as part of other (fiction and poetry) Writing Roots, including non-chronological reports, biographies, explanation texts, letters and newspaper reports (both using fictional and non-fiction contexts). Our Reading Leaves include a variety of non-fiction titles from Year 2 through to Year 6, where children have the opportunity to explore Reading Comprehension within non-fiction books.
We're always sorry to see you go, however if you do cancel your Individual Membership after the initial three-month term, you will retain any unused tokens (both those accrued monthly as well as any purchased additionally). You will also retain any resources purchased using a token. You can restart your Individual Membership at any point by selecting Upgrade Membership from the My Account page.
The plans have been devised using the versions of texts shown and these can be ordered directly through our site via our partner bookseller, Peters. However, it’s okay to use other versions and we usually try to refer to chapters or sections as opposed to specific page numbers where we can. Sometimes particular versions are chosen because of the collaboration with an illustrator, e.g. the Laura Carlin version of The Iron Man. And do be aware that some versions might be slightly abridged, such as the version of The Selfish Giant that we use. With something like The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and The BFG there are so many versions that we’ve deliberately not used page numbers.
All of our Writing Roots have published outcomes. Some are ‘Instant published’ (like a post-card or letter) where children publish straight onto the special paper. Extended outcomes have ‘planned published’ outcomes, where children plan, draft, edit and then publish their writing. This can take many forms and may be book-making, but could also be performance or creating a display of work.
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