Primary Digital Learning Product Language & Literacy
BOOKR Kids – BOOKR Schule
BOOKR Schule stands out as a highly innovative and effective digital platform for teaching German to primary-level learners. Leveraging the power of storytelling and interactive learning enhances key language skills such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The platform’s BOOKR format—with its immediate feedback, customizable curriculum, independent pace, and multimedia transmission—offers unique support to disadvantaged students, helping to close the achievement gap. The platform is adaptable to various teaching models, making it suitable for in-class, hybrid, and virtual environments.
With specific tools for supporting dyslexic learners and research-backed content, BOOKR Schule provides an inclusive, accessible, and motivating learning experience. Teachers benefit from real-time engagement tracking and integrated assessment tools, while students enjoy a safe, engaging, and multimedia-enhanced learning environment.
Validated by extensive research and built on the CEFR framework, BOOKR Schule is revolutionizing the teaching of German as a second language, empowering students and educators with a modern, effective, and inclusive platform.
2Simple – Serial Mash
Serial Mash is an innovative online library designed to ignite a love of reading in Key Stage 1 and 2 children while enhancing their comprehension skills. It offers a dynamic platform where children, teachers, and parents can come together to foster a lifelong passion for reading and learning.
Every half term, Serial Mash releases three new, exclusive books, each paired with carefully crafted learning resources that connect directly to the themes of the chapters and curriculum reading strands. In addition to these new titles, users also have access to the entire back catalogue of books and resources to use, ensuring a wealth of content to suit every reader’s needs.
The books are divided into seven distinct libraries: three tailored to different age groups, a fourth library designed to motivate and encourage reluctant readers, and a fifth to stretch and challenge eager readers. There is also a library dedicated to poetry, and a non-fiction library housing Dorling Kindersley Learning books.
Education Shed – Spelling Shed
Spelling Shed, The Science of Spelling, is the proven spelling scheme with spelling games enjoyed by millions of children worldwide. Designed for maximum impact with minimal hassle, the innovative platform includes everything you need to teach spelling effectively.
Spelling Shed’s platform includes an evidence-based scheme, spelling games, data and assessment tools, a full grammar curriculum, Grammar Arcade and Mastery Zone. Over 2.5 million children play Spelling Shed games monthly. Spelling Shed’s app is the UK’s number 1 best-selling spelling app.
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GL Assessment – WellComm Digital
WellComm Digital is an innovative speech and language assessment toolkit for children aged six months to 11 years. Launched in spring 2024, it digitalises the respected WellComm Toolkit, which has been a cornerstone in early education for over 15 years.
This user-friendly digital platform allows a range of professionals to conduct efficient 10–15-minute assessments without specialised training. Based on the results, WellComm Digital automatically suggests targeted interventions (from a bank of 150 activities) to support the child’s development.
Key features include a streamlined assessment process, automatic generation of interventions and enhanced sharing capabilities. Activities can be quickly shared with parents, promoting a collaborative approach to speech and language development.
WellComm Digital offers significant advantages over its paper-based predecessor, including improved accessibility, ease of implementation, regular updates, and cost-effectiveness.
The system is fully GDPR-compliant, ensuring the highest standards of data protection. Its digital nature also contributes to environmental sustainability, with it potentially saving up to 900,000 sheets of paper annually.
Since its launch, WellComm Digital has generated considerable interest from a range of settings, indicating its strong potential to make a positive impact.
Kaligo International Limited – Kaligo
Kaligo is an educational tool designed to support literacy development, focusing on handwriting and spelling for students from early years through primary education. Based on scientific research and co-developed with healthcare and education professionals, Kaligo adapts to the individual needs of students.
Kaligo uses AI to analyse each handwriting stroke, evaluating shape, direction, order, and spacing to provide personalised feedback. Students can work at their own pace using a stylus or finger on a tablet. Studies have shown that Kaligo significantly improves handwriting skills, with progress easily transferable to writing on paper.
Kaligo features two interfaces:
– Student interface on tablet (Android and iOS): offers 14 exercises ranging from tracing patterns, drawing, to cursive writing, phonics and spelling.
– Teacher interface on desktop: provides a library of English curriculum-aligned, ready-to-use lessons, allowing educators to create customised lessons, differentiate instructions and easily monitor individual and class progress.
Kaligo is endorsed by the Department for Education and has received recognition through various education awards, including the BETT Literacy Award 2022, GESAwards, and GESS Education Awards Finalist in 2019.
LinkyThinks – LinkyThinks.com
LinkyThinks is a highly creative digital learning platform, designed to help children attain the critical life skills needed to thrive in the modern world (critical thinking, communication, empathy & more) ALONGSIDE supporting academic success – helping children worldwide to achieve their academic goals & to thrive beyond the classroom.
Aligned with curriculum standards, LinkyThinks is suitable for primary school children throughout the English-speaking world. The platform covers essential areas like comprehension, vocabulary and creative writing while integrating the attainment of the skills we all need beyond the classroom.
Accessible to both teachers and parents, LinkyThinks offers downloadable resources, educational videos, online group tutoring and parent/teacher seminars, making it easy to use both in the classroom and at home. Catering to diverse learning styles and abilities, LinkyThinks supports adaptive teaching and inclusivity.
All LinkyThinks resources & products are made in the UK using Carbon-Balanced materials, with a tree planted for every 10 products sold. Our comprehensive, competitively priced resources provide significant value while enhancing children’s academic success and life skills.
Literacy Counts – Ready Steady Spell
Ready Steady Spell is an innovative, research-driven spelling resource designed for children in Years 2 to 6. Completely aligned with the National Curriculum, it teaches seven unique strategies which can be applied to support spelling— Syll-a-beat, Phonics Sound, Rule Rhyme, Picture It, Word Build, Wrong Say Right Spell, and Tricky Bit. These strategies provide a range of approaches children can use for spelling so that every child can make progress and become more confident, accurate spellers.
The programme follows a structured, four-part teaching sequence: Revisit & Review, Teach, Practise & Apply, offering a systematic approach to mastering spelling. Ready Steady Go interventions provide targeted intervention sessions to close learning gaps and ensure spelling success for all children.
Ready Steady Spell supports classroom teaching and home learning, with the Home Support Booklet for parents and carers designed to reinforce spelling practice at home. Ready Steady Spell reduces teacher workload, and includes prepared lesson plans, IWB materials and assessment materials, alongside a range of other supportive guidance and leadership tools. Its inclusive, multi-sensory approach is underpinned by research in cognitive science, ensuring long-term retention and application of spelling rules and patterns.
Ready Steady Spell – improve your spelling outcomes for all learners.
Literacy Counts – Ready Steady Write
Ready Steady Write is a comprehensive writing resource from Literacy Counts designed to improve writing outcomes across schools. It offers a structured approach to teaching writing, ensuring consistent, high-quality practices from Early Years to upper Key Stage 2. The resource is built around the teaching sequence of Immerse, Analyse, Plan, and Write, helping children develop key writing skills, including grammar, vocabulary, and composition.
Ready Steady Write supports teachers and leaders with detailed lesson plans, high-quality literature, and tailored writing outcomes for each year group. It empowers staff with the knowledge and strategies to engage all pupils, close attainment gaps, and raise writing standards. The resource also includes consultancy days for leadership teams and teachers, alongside whole-school training sessions, to promote a cohesive approach to writing instruction.
Focusing on improving outcomes for all pupils, particularly the bottom 20%, Ready Steady Write addresses diverse learning needs. Schools benefit from ongoing support, helping teachers embed best practices, monitor progress, and ensure sustained improvement in writing.
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Literacy Tree – Literacy Tree Platform
Literacy Tree provides primary school teachers with a complete, book-based approach to teaching English. With over 1,100 member schools and a presence in > 5% of UK primary schools, we offer a range of expertly crafted planning resources, including Writing Roots, Spelling Seeds, and Literary Leaves, which support the teaching of writing, spelling, and reading comprehension.
In 2024, we launched significant upgrades to our platform, including the Literacy Tree App, designed to enhance accessibility and improve teachers’ work-life balance. Our app allows teachers to annotate plans, track student progress, and capture work samples on the go!
At Literacy Tree, we’re proud to empower teachers with everything they need to deliver inspiring lessons. Our platform offers planning resources created by our team of experienced consultants, that fit into existing teaching frameworks and are flexible to individual settings. Our comprehensive CPD offering and planning support ensures teachers always have access to specialist guidance. With our innovative tools and ongoing updates, we equip teachers to deliver high-impact lessons that inspire a love of reading and writing in their children. We’re not just supporting literacy – we’re shaping the future of English education in a digital world
Olex.AI – Olex.AI
Olex.AI is transforming primary education by leveraging generative AI to tackle deep-rooted challenges in teaching and assessing English writing where marking and feedback are subjective and labour-intensive.
By harnessing AI, Olex.AI reduces teachers’ marking workloads while providing deeper insights into students’ progress and ensuring consistent, examiner-validated feedback aligned with national assessment frameworks.
Key Features:
1. OlexReader: Converts handwritten assessments into digital text efficiently, overcoming traditional AI limitations.
2. Olex.AI Individual Feedback: Generates robust, objective feedback aligned with national or school/trust standards, reducing subjectivity.
3. Olex.AI Translator: Bridges language barriers by translating feedback for EAL students, enhancing comprehension and parental engagement.
4. Olex.AI Class-Level Feedback: Provides data-driven insights for strategic lesson planning and targeted interventions.
5. Olex.AI Lesson Planner: Creates targeted lesson plans addressing specific learning gaps.
6. Olex.AI Imaginator: Engages reluctant writers by generating beautiful, personalised images from their work, boosting motivation.
7. Olex.AI StoryBooks: Compiles student work, feedback, translations, and images into shareable PDFs, fostering pride and parental involvement.
By automating detailed feedback, reducing workloads, and providing precise, data-driven insights, Olex.AI helps teachers focus on quality instruction and student engagement. We significantly reduce the burden of moderation, ensuring consistent assessments and a more equitable experience for students.
