Claire Halstead
@literacyclaire.bsky.social
Literacy Consultant at Literacy Tree
We #TeachThroughaText 📚
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We #TeachThroughaText 📚
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We've had enormous demand for our 'Getting to Grips with the New Writing Framework' training, so have scheduled another session!
Members book here 👇
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Non-members book here 👇
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Members book here 👇
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Non-members book here 👇
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September 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We've had enormous demand for our 'Getting to Grips with the New Writing Framework' training, so have scheduled another session!
Members book here 👇
literacytree.com/training/cou...
Non-members book here 👇
literacytree.com/training/cou...
Members book here 👇
literacytree.com/training/cou...
Non-members book here 👇
literacytree.com/training/cou...
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Are you looking ahead to #BlackHistoryMonth in October?
Our Y6 Writing Root for 'Windrush Child', by the late and great Benjamin Zephaniah, explores the experiences of those who left behind their homes in the Caribbean and arrived on British shores after WW2. 📖 ✍️
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Our Y6 Writing Root for 'Windrush Child', by the late and great Benjamin Zephaniah, explores the experiences of those who left behind their homes in the Caribbean and arrived on British shores after WW2. 📖 ✍️
literacytree.com/planning-seq...
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Are you looking ahead to #BlackHistoryMonth in October?
Our Y6 Writing Root for 'Windrush Child', by the late and great Benjamin Zephaniah, explores the experiences of those who left behind their homes in the Caribbean and arrived on British shores after WW2. 📖 ✍️
literacytree.com/planning-seq...
Our Y6 Writing Root for 'Windrush Child', by the late and great Benjamin Zephaniah, explores the experiences of those who left behind their homes in the Caribbean and arrived on British shores after WW2. 📖 ✍️
literacytree.com/planning-seq...
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The stories we connect with when we're little can shape us into lifelong readers. 👴 📖
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyclaire.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyclaire.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
August 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The stories we connect with when we're little can shape us into lifelong readers. 👴 📖
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyclaire.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
Let’s take a look at Team Literacy Tree’s current favourites… and the books that got us here. Next up, @literacyclaire.bsky.social
What books shaped you into the reader you are today? 💭 👇
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Alice recommends: Once Upon a Journey 🚗
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
hthttps://literacytree.com/.../post/summer-bibliotherapy-2025/
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
hthttps://literacytree.com/.../post/summer-bibliotherapy-2025/
August 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Alice recommends: Once Upon a Journey 🚗
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
hthttps://literacytree.com/.../post/summer-bibliotherapy-2025/
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
hthttps://literacytree.com/.../post/summer-bibliotherapy-2025/
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@literacyclaire.bsky.social headed to Somerset for a Pupil Voice Competition! This year's theme was community + we were honoured to provide books for the winning teams.
We hope these stories support them to continue thinking creatively about community: at school, locally and globally! 🤝 🌎
We hope these stories support them to continue thinking creatively about community: at school, locally and globally! 🤝 🌎
June 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
@literacyclaire.bsky.social headed to Somerset for a Pupil Voice Competition! This year's theme was community + we were honoured to provide books for the winning teams.
We hope these stories support them to continue thinking creatively about community: at school, locally and globally! 🤝 🌎
We hope these stories support them to continue thinking creatively about community: at school, locally and globally! 🤝 🌎
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@literacyclaire.bsky.social recommends: The First Year 🎒
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
literacytree.com/.../post/sum...
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
literacytree.com/.../post/sum...
July 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
@literacyclaire.bsky.social recommends: The First Year 🎒
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
literacytree.com/.../post/sum...
🌳Team Literacy Tree share their recommendations for the summer - whether it’s adventure, calm or a good laugh you’re after, we’ve got you covered with books for every age group!
literacytree.com/.../post/sum...
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We're so excited to welcome Joanna to Team Literacy Tree! 🌳
Joanna has taught across all age ranges with particular depth in KS1. She's passionate about providing children with a curriculum that is diverse + a truthful representation of our world. 🌎 Take a look at her first few weeks on the job! 🙌
Joanna has taught across all age ranges with particular depth in KS1. She's passionate about providing children with a curriculum that is diverse + a truthful representation of our world. 🌎 Take a look at her first few weeks on the job! 🙌
Hi everyone! I’m Joanna and I am a new Literacy Consultant at Literacy Tree. Take a look at what my first few weeks have been like since joining the team. It’s been an amazing start and I look forward to what’s to come! @literacytree.bsky.social #LiteracyTree #TeachThroughaText
April 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We're so excited to welcome Joanna to Team Literacy Tree! 🌳
Joanna has taught across all age ranges with particular depth in KS1. She's passionate about providing children with a curriculum that is diverse + a truthful representation of our world. 🌎 Take a look at her first few weeks on the job! 🙌
Joanna has taught across all age ranges with particular depth in KS1. She's passionate about providing children with a curriculum that is diverse + a truthful representation of our world. 🌎 Take a look at her first few weeks on the job! 🙌
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We’ve just read the Curriculum and Assessment Review: Interim Report, and there’s so much to consider for the future of English & literacy teaching! 📚
Key Takeaways:
✔️ Transitioning from primary to secondary needs focus
✔️ Mastery of core subjects is essential...
Key Takeaways:
✔️ Transitioning from primary to secondary needs focus
✔️ Mastery of core subjects is essential...
March 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We’ve just read the Curriculum and Assessment Review: Interim Report, and there’s so much to consider for the future of English & literacy teaching! 📚
Key Takeaways:
✔️ Transitioning from primary to secondary needs focus
✔️ Mastery of core subjects is essential...
Key Takeaways:
✔️ Transitioning from primary to secondary needs focus
✔️ Mastery of core subjects is essential...
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On #WorldRewildingDay, we're sharing a fantastic list of books about rewilding recommended by Brogen Murphy.
We know books and stories can really help children to learn about the world around them - and be inspired to act:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
We know books and stories can really help children to learn about the world around them - and be inspired to act:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
March 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
On #WorldRewildingDay, we're sharing a fantastic list of books about rewilding recommended by Brogen Murphy.
We know books and stories can really help children to learn about the world around them - and be inspired to act:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
We know books and stories can really help children to learn about the world around them - and be inspired to act:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
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Our next UKLA Book Blether is coming up on March 20th! Join in to share and discover fantastic children's texts - this month's theme is poetry. Sign up here: buff.ly/IDCVdvZ
March 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our next UKLA Book Blether is coming up on March 20th! Join in to share and discover fantastic children's texts - this month's theme is poetry. Sign up here: buff.ly/IDCVdvZ
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Good luck to all the authors doing World Book Day visits this coming week! I’ve made us a bingo card. First one to get all nine wins a ten-page form which finance suddenly reveal you must complete before they’ll pay your invoice! Happy travels!
March 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Good luck to all the authors doing World Book Day visits this coming week! I’ve made us a bingo card. First one to get all nine wins a ten-page form which finance suddenly reveal you must complete before they’ll pay your invoice! Happy travels!
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We have 10 texts to choose from - each carefully selected so that, whether in Reception or Yr 6, children will enjoy the themes explored + make meaningful writing progress. Written outcomes are ‘at pitch’ for each stage, providing opportunities for revision, catch-up and extension where it's needed.
February 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We have 10 texts to choose from - each carefully selected so that, whether in Reception or Yr 6, children will enjoy the themes explored + make meaningful writing progress. Written outcomes are ‘at pitch’ for each stage, providing opportunities for revision, catch-up and extension where it's needed.
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Planning a book week this March? Whole School Writing Roots (member-only) are the perfect way to bring the school community together! Enjoy these pics from schools embracing this approach with 'Change Sings.' This book is a joyous anthem to the importance of working together for a better world. 🌎🙌
February 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Planning a book week this March? Whole School Writing Roots (member-only) are the perfect way to bring the school community together! Enjoy these pics from schools embracing this approach with 'Change Sings.' This book is a joyous anthem to the importance of working together for a better world. 🌎🙌
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"Children’s fiction widens our perspectives & urges us to defy our biases about children facing challenging circumstances."
Our #WriterInResidence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social recommends great books that adults should read to help them empathise with children:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
Our #WriterInResidence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social recommends great books that adults should read to help them empathise with children:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
Books to help adults empathise with children facing challenging home circumstances
Our Writer in Residence Patrice Lawrence shares a few books to help adults empathise with children facing challenging home circumstances
www.booktrust.org.uk
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Children’s fiction widens our perspectives & urges us to defy our biases about children facing challenging circumstances."
Our #WriterInResidence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social recommends great books that adults should read to help them empathise with children:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
Our #WriterInResidence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social recommends great books that adults should read to help them empathise with children:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
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We’re feeling the ❤️ this Valentine’s Day … so many brilliant teachers have attended our live planning sessions @literacytree this week. We’ve shared many books with themes of love and hope.. like this one! 🦉 🐈
February 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Fantastic Working Walls in classrooms and displays in corridors celebrating writing at College Town Primary too - a joy to watch children in real time using their teacher models, prior learning and Working Walls to support them with their own writing 🖋️ @literacytree.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fantastic Working Walls in classrooms and displays in corridors celebrating writing at College Town Primary too - a joy to watch children in real time using their teacher models, prior learning and Working Walls to support them with their own writing 🖋️ @literacytree.bsky.social
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We're absolutely loving these Reading Journey shared class books made by the pupils and teachers at Grange Primary School in Bermondsey. Such a creative way to capture children's enjoyment of and engagement with the wide range of wonderful texts they have read. @literacytree.bsky.social 📚👏🤩
January 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We're absolutely loving these Reading Journey shared class books made by the pupils and teachers at Grange Primary School in Bermondsey. Such a creative way to capture children's enjoyment of and engagement with the wide range of wonderful texts they have read. @literacytree.bsky.social 📚👏🤩
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‼️We're hiring! Two new roles are now open for applications over on our website:
literacytree.com/vacancies/
#primaryschool #primaryteacher #primaryliteracy #Hiring #EdTech #PrimaryEducation #LiteracyConsultant #ResourceDeveloper #EducationJobs
literacytree.com/vacancies/
#primaryschool #primaryteacher #primaryliteracy #Hiring #EdTech #PrimaryEducation #LiteracyConsultant #ResourceDeveloper #EducationJobs
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Buy Work with us... at Literacy Tree today!
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January 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
‼️We're hiring! Two new roles are now open for applications over on our website:
literacytree.com/vacancies/
#primaryschool #primaryteacher #primaryliteracy #Hiring #EdTech #PrimaryEducation #LiteracyConsultant #ResourceDeveloper #EducationJobs
literacytree.com/vacancies/
#primaryschool #primaryteacher #primaryliteracy #Hiring #EdTech #PrimaryEducation #LiteracyConsultant #ResourceDeveloper #EducationJobs
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And another #NewIllustrationOfTheDay from Ten-Word TinyTales of Love, a sampler of 21 illustrations of Joseph Coelho’s miniature stories. This huge, muddy dog is by Jarvis. Out from Walker Books 16 Jan. @jarvis.bsky.social
My art-loving tale: “Every time a blue sky dawned, she posted a picture.”
My art-loving tale: “Every time a blue sky dawned, she posted a picture.”
January 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
And another #NewIllustrationOfTheDay from Ten-Word TinyTales of Love, a sampler of 21 illustrations of Joseph Coelho’s miniature stories. This huge, muddy dog is by Jarvis. Out from Walker Books 16 Jan. @jarvis.bsky.social
My art-loving tale: “Every time a blue sky dawned, she posted a picture.”
My art-loving tale: “Every time a blue sky dawned, she posted a picture.”
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Kicking off the New Year with a jam-packed half-day INSET led by @literacypippa.bsky.social #NewYearNewLiteracy
Pippa discussed our #TeachThroughaText pedagogy, using 'The Wilderness' (by Steve McCarthy) as an example. Teachers even had a go at some of the short writing outcomes for this book!
Pippa discussed our #TeachThroughaText pedagogy, using 'The Wilderness' (by Steve McCarthy) as an example. Teachers even had a go at some of the short writing outcomes for this book!
January 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Kicking off the New Year with a jam-packed half-day INSET led by @literacypippa.bsky.social #NewYearNewLiteracy
Pippa discussed our #TeachThroughaText pedagogy, using 'The Wilderness' (by Steve McCarthy) as an example. Teachers even had a go at some of the short writing outcomes for this book!
Pippa discussed our #TeachThroughaText pedagogy, using 'The Wilderness' (by Steve McCarthy) as an example. Teachers even had a go at some of the short writing outcomes for this book!
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If it's helpful to schools and teachers, below is the link to a year's worth of picturebook assembly suggestions that have a focus on empathy, diversity, equality and inclusion. They're all books I've used and loved. #edusky padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...
November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM
If it's helpful to schools and teachers, below is the link to a year's worth of picturebook assembly suggestions that have a focus on empathy, diversity, equality and inclusion. They're all books I've used and loved. #edusky padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...
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Looking to #GrowWithLiteracyTree in 2025? Our online half-day Pedagogy Workshops will be running throughout February and March, so head over to the link below to secure a spot:
https://buff.ly/3Zpe5L2
https://buff.ly/3Zpe5L2
January 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Looking to #GrowWithLiteracyTree in 2025? Our online half-day Pedagogy Workshops will be running throughout February and March, so head over to the link below to secure a spot:
https://buff.ly/3Zpe5L2
https://buff.ly/3Zpe5L2