The literacy framework was a Labour initiative started which started in 1998 and the literacy framework strategy was the brainchild of David Blunkett.
One of the key ideas behind the Literacy Framework was a daily Literacy Hour where the pupils in school would be given intensive and very prescriptive literacy lessons.
Many consider the Literacy Framework actually to be very over prescriptive :
The initial literacy “framework” provided minute-by-minute model lessons for primary schools. The one for five to seven-year-olds consisted of the following:
- Fifteen minutes sitting together working from a shared large print book.
- A further 15 minutes focusing on certain words with the class.
- Twenty minutes devoted to reading or writing on their own or in small groups.
- The final 10 minutes should be spent in a group going over all the main points.
- Literacy assessment at key intervals in the year.
The success of the Literacy Framework is still very much in debate.