With whole books at the heart of learning and teaching, an assistant head teacher talks about how her school carries ...

A teacher leads pupils in exploring the success criteria for a letter they are to write, for a learning objective abo...

During the course of their writing, pupils share what they have produced so far as part of a whole class review.

Success criteria can be difficult to express for the complex skills involved in writing.

Pupils talk with their teacher about the challenges and benefits of studying whole books and the impact that studying...

Pupils talk about collaborative learning, the role of success criteria and the role of their personal targets, reflec...

A teacher leads a group of pupils in exploring meaning in text, from the book that pupils have been studying through ...

Having studied a whole book (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) through the year, pupils show how they have developed sk...

The benefits of working with whole books through the school year are illustrated in group work where pupils explore t...

Using pictures as prompts, pupils show their developing understanding of the characters and themes of a book (The Boy...

Through classroom discussion, pupils talk about the techniques and skills they will need to use when comparing charac...

Pupils' use of connectives to express similarities and differences are explored through talk partners and in a whole ...

Through classroom dialogue including the use of talk partners, pupils explore the use of connectives to express diffe...

Talk partners are used to develop pupils' understanding of how reading helps the development of writing skills and vi...

The lesson ends with a review session. Individual and group reflection is followed by feedback and discussion on how ...

This clip shows the consolidation phase of the lesson.

The teacher outlines the homework task a group task, but with individual aspects.

Two groups are seen working on different aspects of their bids.

In a mini-plenary, groups share some of their work to date while others evaluate.

Groups are now ready to start preparing written bids which need to reflect their reasoning.

A group of four use valuable time in their unsuccessful search for a group name

This clip shows an introductory phase of the lesson continuing.

After recapping the previous lesson, the teacher outlines plans for the current lesson and shares intended learning o...

A group of students present its analysis of a stanza from Dulce et Decorum Est.

Describing her school as a learning community, a deputy head teacher talks about how staff are utilising the same app...