English Lead Toolkit
The operational toolkit for primary English coordinators
Eight resources covering the English Lead's annual workload — whole-school reading and writing progression, phonics scheme decisions, reading-for-pleasure strategy, library management, CPD for class teachers, monitoring walks, and handover. Built for the role responsible for English across a primary school.
7 resources in this collection
Whole-School Reading Progression — Pre-K to Grade 6
How reading skills develop across primary — phase 1 phonics through KS2 inference, summarisation, and critical reading. Includes year-by-year skill expectations, common misconceptions, and the assessment markers that show whether children are on track. The reference document an English Lead returns to most often.
Whole-School Writing Progression — Pre-K to Grade 6
How writing skills develop across primary — emergent mark-making through KS2 sustained writing. Year-by-year skill expectations covering composition, transcription, vocabulary, sentence structure, and editing. Pairs with the reading progression as the English Lead's two foundational reference docs.
Reading for Pleasure — Whole-School Strategy
How English Leads build a school-wide reading culture. Covers the Open University's 4-strand model, library setup, daily read-aloud rituals, reluctant-reader strategies, parent engagement, and how to measure reading-for-pleasure (it's harder than measuring fluency). The most important single thing an English Lead does.
School Library — Setup and Management Guide
How to set up and run a primary school library — book selection, organisation, lending systems, refresh cycles, parent volunteer roles, and the difference between 'a room with books' and 'a library children actually use'. For English Leads inheriting a tired library or starting from scratch.
English Monitoring Walk — Prompt Sheet
What to look for during a 10-minute classroom monitoring walk for English. Specific prompts for reading lessons, writing lessons, phonics lessons, and book corner audits. Designed for English Leads doing learning walks without it feeling like inspection.
English CPD Pack for Class Teachers
Six 20-minute CPD sessions for English Leads to deliver to class teachers — covering reading aloud, comprehension teaching, writing feedback, vocabulary teaching, phonics for non-specialists, and reading-for-pleasure leadership. Designed for twilight INSETs.
English Lead Handover Document
When an English Lead leaves a school, the next person inherits chaos by default. This handover template captures everything — phonics scheme, reading data, library status, CPD history, key children, statutory data trends. Mirrors the music and assessment coordinator handover docs.
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