About coventryenglish

Coventry Primary English consultants working for Coventry LA. Working to promote reading and writing for Primary aged children through our work with teachers and teaching assistants. Avid readers who love to promote reading for children and the use of quality texts in schools.

Sounds Pinteresting


I like collecting things. When I was a girl I collected erasers, pencil toppers and key rings. Little bits of brightly coloured plastic from places I’d visited: Twycross Zoo, Kenilworth Castle, Coventry Cathedral… Now I’m a grown up and have my own children we visit the same local attractions. What have my children bought? Beanie babies, wooden swords and pencil sharpeners. It’s either in the genes or is representative of the sort of gift that can be purchased from a few weeks worth of pocket money.

I still collect things now and this is where Pinterest comes in. My colleague Charlotte wrote a fabulous blog post about how to use Pinterest as a teacher and I urge you to take a look – it’s really rather good. Our Pinterest boards are an online collection of all things literary – created by us to help teachers find resources to teach English. So what do we have?

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Rachel Clarke – Primary English Consultant

One Stop Reading Shop


Some of you may have been following us a while, some of you more recently and we thought it might be useful to reflect on a few of our most searched for and read posts.

This selection relates to the teaching of reading:

Need some support with Guided Reading? Want to find out what other teachers in schools across the country are doing for Guided Reading?

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Primary English Team