Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary English

Unlock ambitious primary English teaching and inspire young wordsmiths!

Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary English provides primary school teachers and curriculum leads with the principles and strategies to design a deeper, more creative, and more expansive English curriculum. Bob Cox, along with Leah Crawford, Angela Jenkins, and Julie Sargent, share top-quality ways of thinking, planning, and teaching to enhance learner engagement and develop writing skills.

This resource offers frameworks and innovative ideas to make primary English vibrant and challenging. Discover how to develop pupils' speaking, listening, reading, writing, and thinking with a greater sense of curiosity and originality. With this toolkit of strategies, schools can adapt and apply these approaches to their own contexts, fostering a love for language and literature. You'll learn how to:

• Enhance learner engagement with challenging texts
• Develop pupils' writing skills as budding wordsmiths
• Implement ambitious teaching approaches in primary English
• Create a vibrant and challenging English curriculum
• Improve pupils' speaking, listening, reading, writing, and thinking skills

Suitable for teachers and curriculum leads in primary settings, this resource is your starting point for developing an Opening Doors approach to English. Will you open the door to a richer English curriculum?