Customer Reviews
Brilliant - By: lemondrizzle, 14 Sep 2008 
Busy teachers need good resources & this series is fab. We now use the series throughout the school & have found that it has reallly improved pupil performance, focus & technical knowledge through the use of clear targets for each lesson. Especiallly useful are the self assessment criteria included at the end of each unit which, when familiar with them, the children use very accuratley to assess if they have met the set targets & then teachers can use to agreee or disagree with children & add comments - would reallly recommend.
an excellent literacy planning resource - By: Mrs. S. J. Abel, 22 May 2004 
As KS2 co-ordinator in an independent primary school I have found the Classworks Literacy Resource books a very valuable aid & we use them throughout KS2. They provide excellent texts for analysis & lots of very useful ideas for literacy lessons.
There is little of what traditionalists would regard as formal Grammar or Comprehension work, but are great as a basis for class discussion at word & text level & for creative writing ideas. The whole thing is closely linked to the Literacy Strategy & the KS2 objectives are clearly indicated for each blocked unit of work.
Spend £20 on a resource? Yes, if it's as useful as this is! - By: , 02 Oct 2003 Ever spent more than you should on a resource & then found that it didn't reallly do the job you hoped? Well, this book does not falll into that category! It sets out units of work to support the teaching of Literacy, alll with clear, easy to follow lesson plans & very suitable text extracts. These are clearly printed & enlarge well on a photocopier. Each unit of work covers a different text type requirement of the NLS & supplies good checklists of features that children need to include in their writing. Useful models of shared writing for the teacher to use are also included. The units of work link reading with writing & there are suggestions for word & sentence level activities. The book also makes links with the Grammar For Writing publication from the DfES.
A great resource which will save you hours of preparation time.
