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Improve progress in reading and writing across your school

Plazoom’s Real Writing and Real Comprehension whole-school programmes are designed to save you time, help you improve reading and writing outcomes and ensure progress for EVERY child – all for only £249.99!

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Real Writing

Real Writing is built on a comprehensive, curriculum-linked framework devised by the literacy consultant Rachel Clarke, which covers the full writing programme of study for Years 1-6.

This powerful programme puts high-quality, skills-annotated model texts (25 per year group) at the heart of every lesson, and each unit provides you with an effective teaching sequence divided into three clear phases: familiarisation; teaching and rehearsing; and application.

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Real Comprehension

Real Comprehension has been carefully developed by literacy experts Rachel Clarke, Ruth Baker-Leask, Christine Chen and Lindsay Pickton to ensure progression is built in from the start with opportunities for greater depth learning in every unit.

Thematically arranged texts covering fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been written by experienced children’s authors and are fully annotated for ease of teaching. Real Comprehension also provides comprehensive teaching sequences that build deeper understanding for ALL children through a variety of close-reading and guided reading techniques.

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Support and guidance at your fingertips

Both our Real Writing and Real Comprehension programmes include fully annotated versions of every text, so you can quickly and easily identify relevant teaching points and highlight key features, structures, themes and vocabulary for pupils. The programmes are super-flexible, too -you’ll find progression maps, full teaching sequences for every text and all the lesson resources required for every single unit - supporting you every step of the way.

You can also use the texts in any way that works for you when planning for individual classrooms and schools. Share each model text for enjoyment, to practise specific content domain skills, to be acted out or recorded, to inspire art projects and much more!

Oh, and Year 1 teachers? You’re also included!

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Developed by UK literacy experts

Real Writing and Real Comprehension have been developed by some of the leading literacy consultants in the country, Rachel Clarke, Christine Chen, Lindsay Pickton and Ruth Baker-Leask, to ensure EVERY model text and teaching sequence delivers progress for EVERY child. Not only that, all our model text authors are highly experienced, published children’s writers, many of whom are award winners or award nominees ensuring your pupils will enjoy EVERY lesson.

Meet some of our authors

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Joshua Seigal

Winner of the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2020 and shortlisted for the People's Book Awards 2021/22

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Ross Montgomery

Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month for The Midnight Guardians, one of The Guardians Children’s Books of the Year and currently shortlisted for this year's Costa Children's Book Award.

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Jon Mayhew

Winner of the Warwick, Sefton, Wirral, Leeds and Calderdale Prizes and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year

Real Writing and Real Comprehension will help your school to


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Save time

100s of skills-annotated, age-appropriate, high-quality model texts at your fingertips

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Identify and close gaps in learning

Use targeted teaching sequences and units of work to plug gaps in pupils learning

3

Ensure progress

Our progression frameworks support sustained progression by revisiting skills throughout each Key Stage

Discover some our favourite model texts

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Jungle Adventure, by Dan Smith

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Dreams of Escape by Joshua Seigel

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Coventry Cathedral by Jo Franklin

A Plazoom school subscription includes:

  • 10 teacher accounts
  • Unlimited access to 1,500+ expert literacy resources for Years 1 to 6 (more added every week)
  • Our Real Writing programme, a whole-school writing curriculum with fully resourced teaching sequences for 150 high-quality model texts
  • Our Real Comprehension programme, a thematic, whole-school reading comprehension programme with 54 original texts written by top children’s authors
  • Unbeatable CPD support, including 60+ video training sessions from literacy teaching consultants
  • Five free issues of Teach Reading & Writing magazine and access to all digital back issues
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