Primary English and Literacy
Welcome to the Lancashire Primary English and Literacy page. Here you will find a great mix of expert guidance, exciting resources and interesting links that can help to impact teaching and learning in your primary classroom.
Quick Links
What's New
- New! Blending Dialogue in Year 5 and Year 6 (Publication)
- New! LPDS English Curriculum Map Guidance - Progression in Writing Skills (Subscription Required)
- Suite of Progression Documents
- Sample course material for the Red Rose Y4 Spelling Programme Package
- Sample course material for the Red Rose Y3 Spelling Programme Package
- New! Key Learning in Reading and Writing for Y2-3 (Subscription Required)
- New! The Writing Framework Advice from LPDS 2025
- New! Sequence for teaching new vocabulary 2025
- Overview of EYFS documents
- Free CPD - Updated VLOG Directory
- English Events Calendar 2026
Supporting English: Audit Tools
Additional English Subject Leader support materials can be found on our designated English Subject Leader pages
Planning Support Tools
Additional resources can be found on our full Reading and Writing pages
CPD and Consultancy
Course spotlight
Courses not to be missed in Spring 2026
- Building Sentences in Key Stage 1
- Building Stronger Sentences in Key Stage 2
- Engaging all Writers (New Course)
- Developing Spoken Language Approaches to Underpin a Quality English Curriculum
- Talk One - The Ugly Five Unit for Talk One schools (New Course)
- Spring English Subject Leader Networks
View our comprehensive list of English Courses.
English Consultancy and School-based training for schools and other agencies can be tailored to meet the needs of individual members of staff, groups of staff, or the whole school staff team. These can be delivered by members of our English team on a full-day, half-day, staff meeting or an evening twilight basis.
Advice and support can be provided across a range of topics including:
- improving subject knowledge (eg phonics, spelling, reading, writing, grammar) for teachers and teaching assistants
- support for the English Subject Leader to audit, monitor and implement action plans
- planning units of work with individual teachers
- assessing reading and writing for every year group; moderating reading and writing with individual teachers and/or Subject Leaders
- working with Subject Leadership teams to support action planning and monitoring.
We can provide bespoke packages of support including the above, tailored to meet the needs of your school.
Contact Nicola Martin - Senior Consultant for English and Literacy
"The course presenter was a brilliant facilitator - super-friendly, and the course was delivered superbly."
English Lead from a Primary School in Salford
On-Demand Training
View our current range of On-Demand Primary English and Literacy training. Check back regularly for new sessions.
Red Rose Letters and Sounds
The Primary English and Literacy Team at Lancashire Professional Development Service (LPDS) have developed a new systematic, synthetic phonics planning programme using the Letters and Sounds approach titled Red Rose Letters and Sounds.
"My EYFS/Key Stage 1 teacher is really seeing the impact in her children's writing from us consistently using Lancashire's Red Rose Letters and Sounds SSP for the past two years. Changing our phonics scheme was an outcome from our last OFSTED, so we've been keen to measure the impact, which we've seen in our improved phonics check results too! We are excited to begin our Red Rose Spelling journey into Y2 and beyond next year."
Headteacher in a Lancashire School
Publications
View our full range
Evidence-based publications to aid your classroom practice. From our Award-winning English and Literacy Team.
New Publications
Primary Sentence Toolkit
Sentences are essential building blocks to written composition. Without a secure understanding of sentences and what a sentence does, the success of children’s written compositions will always be limited.
Key Learning in Spoken Language
Based upon the expectations outlined in the National Curriculum, this publication will support teachers to plan spoken language opportunities in English and across the curriculum. Publication available electronically for instant download.
English Planning Units
This unit has been designed to provide Year 6 teachers with both modelled and independent writing opportunities to support writing assessment judgements at the end of Key Stage 2.
Resources and Support
Reading and Writing
A collection of free and premium reading and writing resources and guidance.
Subscription required for access to premium content.
Phonics
A list of free phonics resources and guidance.
For Red Rose Letters and Sounds - see section above.
EYFS - Communication, Language and Literacy
Early Years Support for English and Literacy. Annual subscription required for Premium Resource access.
VLOG
Watch the monthly VLOG episode from the Teaching and Learning Consultants for Primary English and Literacy. Covering topical areas like a Deep Dive in Reading.