Discover our free EYFS, KS1 and KS2 Elmer Day teaching resource created with Andersen Press for Elmer Day 2017

Louise Johns-Shepherd talks about the importance of the CLPE Poetry Award (CLiPPA) in Carousel, No. 66, Autumn Winter 2017. 

Poetry, rhyme and song play a fundamental role in young children's development says Advisory Teacher Anjali Patel in Teach Early Years

Charlotte discusses how picture books can have wide-ranging benefits for literacy learning in our latest Teach Primary article.

Want to engage and motivate children as readers and writers?

We considered the next 12 months of English teaching with The English and Media Centre in the TE

Primary Advisory Teacher Katie Myles has written for Teach Reading and Writing on how definitions of ability affect children's perceptions of themselves.

Updated with new research in January 2018, this publication shares what we know about making poetry work in primary schools.

The Power of Picture Books by Anjali Patel published in Teach Nursery

In 2013 CLPE was funded by the Siobhan Dowd Trust to set up book groups in Southwark schools.

by Hilary Hester