Wings

Key Stage 2 literacy programme – 'Wings'

This literacy programme is aligned to Key Stage 2 of the English and Welsh national curriculums.

The Wings programme will enable your pupils to enjoy reading and will create fluent and confident readers by the end of year 6.

Our comprehensive materials, including lesson plans, save you time so that you can focus on bringing the activities to life and enthusing your pupils.

Key features

• Wings supports and challenges both basic and more competent readers.
• We use a wide range of carefully selected literature including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. In most cases, your pupils will read the whole book, giving them 'reading stamina' – something that Government advisers have found lacking in the past.
• We've built many assessment opportunities into the lesson plans.
• We can provide Level 6 materials.

The co-operative learning style

Like the entire Success for All programme, Wings is driven by co-operative learning strategies that put your pupils at the heart of their own learning. Each individual lesson follows the Cycle of Effective Instruction, which encourages your pupils to teach their learning to partners and team mates, in order to consolidate their own understanding.

Here are the key benefits of using co-operative learning in your classroom:

• The supportive team environment encourages pupils to take responsibility and participate towards a common goal, so they keep engaged and maintain focus.
• It allows team members to teach each other what they know – a really powerful way of learning.
• On-going team discussion enables pupils to use and develop their skills in speaking and listening.
• Pupils are given the opportunity to develop their ideas as part of the team process. This develops the self-help strategies that enable them to work independently and with confidence.

How Wings works

You will teach using a wide range of literature, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We provide well-thought-out, structured teaching materials that will help you stimulate discussion about the text.

You will also lead highly-structured writing activities based on the texts, with the opportunity for extra extended writing interspersed between them.

We provide five levels of materials, including detailed daily lesson plans for you, materials for pupils that support them with their learning, as well as manuals for extended writing and grammar-for-editing.