For Schools
At My Teaching Hive, our flexible, high-quality resources are designed to meet the needs of your school, whether you’re launching a whole-school reading approach for the first time or looking to enhance and enrich your existing practice.
Our Values
Download our brochure to learn more about the values that shape our approach to reading. We champion inclusive, engaging, and curriculum-connected reading experiences that develop lifelong readers.
Information Brochure
Step-by-Step Guide: How to Launch and Embed My Teaching Hive Resources
Step 1: Review and Select Texts
- Consider the curriculum coverage across year groups.
- Choose books that align with topics, reflect pupil interests, and offer diversity and representation.
- Use our Suggested Text Progression Map to support planning.
- Tailor choices to suit your cohort.
Progression Map
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Step 2: Launch in a Staff meeting
- Introduce the resources in a dedicated session.
- Share how texts support genre coverage, reading for pleasure, and skill development.
- Demonstrate use across year groups.
- Highlight alignment with National Curriculum reading objectives.
Resources to support your launch
Check out our 'Reading Skills' resources on our main resources page.
Step 3: Deepen Understanding: Follow Up CPD
In a second staff meeting, choose a focus to deepen teaching practice:
- Partner Talk: Building Challenge
- Modelling & Scaffolding
- Promoting Reading for Pleasure
- Resource Audit and Prioritisation
Resources to support ongoing CPD
Step 4: Embed and Assess
- Use embedded formative assessment to monitor reading skill progression.
- Assessment methods include:
- Short written tasks
- Verbal responses and partner talk
- One-to-one fluency check-ins
- Use evidence to adapt and refine practice.
- Optionally, dip into summative assessments (e.g. termly comprehension papers) for broader insights.
Don’t forget:
- Revisit regularly to check for updates or new resources.
- Review impact and make adjustments as needed.
Our Values
Download our brochure to learn more about the values that shape our approach to reading. We champion inclusive, engaging, and curriculum-connected reading experiences that develop lifelong readers.
1) Download your resources in bulk or browse one at at a time:
2. You may have some of these texts in school already, otherwise they can be purchased easily online. We recommend at least one copy per class. For picture books, we recommend one copy per table.
If needed, click the button below to add all of the books in the bundle to your Amazon basket in one go.
3. Use the PowerPoint information guide to introduce the resources to your staff.
4. Visit ‘Reading Skills’ to find more helpful resources including reading skills posters, display materials, a reading record booklet and information on how our skills link to the National Curriculum.
You can download these in bulk here:
5. If you didn’t sign up during registration, sign up to be notified when new resources are available:
Step 1: Review and Select Texts
- Consider the curriculum coverage across year groups.
- Choose books that align with topics, reflect pupil interests, and offer diversity and representation.
- Use our Suggested Text Progression Map to support planning.
- Tailor choices to suit your cohort.
