First News Engage Printables

Boost pupil literacy with weekly news-based learning resources

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Pupils made “significantly more progress than expected” when using Engage Printables

National Literacy Trust independent evaluation

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Engaging activities based on the latest news, updated weekly

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Build literacy with comprehensions, topical debates and more

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Ready to use and fully differentiated for KS2-3

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Flexible, student-led working in class or at home

“Our weekly use of News Comprehensions is an effective way of giving pupils the opportunity to practise key word reading and comprehension skills within a relevant context.”

Portway Primary School

Engage Printables

Save time and see results with these unique news-based literacy activities

⭐️ Fresh news-based, differentiated activities and answers, every week of term

⭐️ Literacy-boosting reading comprehensions, topical debates and vocabulary puzzles

⭐️ Questions for retrieval, sequencing, prediction, inference and comparison as well as open-ended tasks that invite students to form evidence opinions

⭐️ Receive weekly resources direct to your inbox

⭐️ Unlimited access for all teachers at your school: simply log in, chose the appropriate reading level and download

⭐️ Print as many copies as you need, display on the IWB or upload to your online classroom

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“Not only has the children’s vocabulary improved, but they have been able to see the benefits of looking at something from another point of view. They have also become much more articulate and confident at speaking in public and have loved having the opportunity to make new friends and find out more about current issues that affect them.”

R L Hughes Primary School, UK

“I’ve seen so many positives from using the newspaper and reading activities during our Guided Reading sessions, particularly with reluctant readers who enjoyed being able to be in control of what, and where, they started reading the newspaper from.
The stories became great conversation starters and really supported the children in developing their justification and opinion-giving skills“