Click here to visit the Standards Site – Primary Framework for Literacy

The renewed Primary Framework for Literacy is different from the 1998 framework in the following ways:

An electronic version - The electronic format will allow you to link quickly to a wide range of teaching and learning resources, so that you can customise your planning, teaching and assessment more easily.

Objectives and guidance for teachers - There is a greater focus upon teachers and practitioners using their assessment to personalise learning, and both identify and tackle the most appropriate objectives, individuals and groups of children need to learn.

A clearer structure for literacy - To simplify the structure of the objectives and to incorporate speaking and listening, 12 strands of learning are identified in literacy. These give a broad overview of the curriculum for English in the primary phase.

ICT Applications in Literacy
The aim of this section is to show how ICT may add value to aspects of literacy learning across the primary phase. It comprises a collection of brief illustrations, grouped by the type of technology they exploit. Illustrations may also be accessed by hyperlink from a grid which shows where they might fit in terms of age range and strand of literacy learning. Of course, the technologies and approaches listed will need to be interpreted and amended to suit the needs of learners. They may also be adapted for use beyond the age ranges specified here.

Click here to download the ICT Applications document

Literacy Learning objectives
You can download two documents from the website that give the Literacy Learning objectives by strand and by year group. You can also download the pdf version here.

Core learning in literacy by year

Core learning in literacy by strand