Welcome to the Routledge Literacy Centre! Click on ‘Teachers’ materials’ and you’ll find details of our key practical titles - advice on everything from writing poetry at Key Stages 1 and 2, to supporting children with special needs in the classroom. We’ve also collected together here a list of other literacy-related sites that we hope you’ll find useful. Click on ‘Academic texts’ for details of our more academic titles on literacy. 'It seems pretentious to suggest that the job of a teacher is to help people to learn how to live. So we rarely admit it, and tolerate the more socially acceptable formulations of governments and curriculum agencies. But I would suggest that it is the possibility of this kind of learning that we have in mind when we read, recommend or lend a book to our students. We are offering them the opportunity to imagine what we have been led to imagine - hopeful, and, on a good day,confident that their lives will be the richer for it.' Professor Colin Harrison, University of Nottingham