Lynn has taught from Nursery to Y6 and was a Literacy coordinator and an Advanced Skills Teacher in Southwark before becoming a Local Authority Consultant and a Deputy Head and then going on to set up Literacy Tree with Anthony Legon. Lynn has a background in drama-in-education and is always looking for ways to engage children within literature to use as a platform to inspire high quality writing. This inspired her focus for an MA in Achievement and Equity in Education from the Institute of Education which she completed in 2001 whilst teaching. Lynn is a KS1 and KS2 moderator for writing and runs training for moderators for Local Authorities. She’ll admit that she’s slightly obsessed with words and their origins, and is particularly geeky about homophones and portmanteaux.
Get in Touch: lynn@literacytree.com
In classrooms shaped by the Literacy Tree approach, every choice we make, from the books we select to the way we model writing is deliberate and rooted in pedagogy. One choice that often surprises teachers new to our approach and…
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In the first of our How to Use series we look at the curriculum maps. This simple guide looks at how to interpret curriculum maps to meet the needs of your own setting. Schools and individual teachers may…
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When doing our monthly webinar we get asked a real range of questions from Headteachers and Literacy leads about the Literary Curriculum and how it has been put together. Recently the most common question has been how we choose the…
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Setting up your classroom at this point each year can be a moment of unbridled joy. Almost like moving into a new home, or redecorating a room, this is the moment where you can make your dreams a reality! ‘This…
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Summer holidays are now finally appearing over the hazy horizon, ushering in the end of another very strange and discombobulating academic year. We do hope you are now getting ready for some R&R. Being literary minded as we are, we…
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I made my husband watch Bridgerton recently. It’s not his genre, let’s be clear. There were no spaceships and no apocalyptic warnings. There were no elves and portals to other worlds. However, it was set in the past and history…
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