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The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is an independent UK charity which works to improve and support the teaching of literacy. It places a particular emphasis on the importance of books and literature in enabling children to become confident, happy and enthusiastic readers and writers. Through the many different strands of its work CLPE aims to help teachers know about the range of literature available to teachers and gives around 10,000 books to teachers each year.

CLPE was founded in 1972 as The Centre for Language in Primary Education within the Inner London Education Authority. It became an independent charity in 2002, changing its name to The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. The Charity is based in a Grade 2 Listed Building in London and works from here and across England. It operates a reference library at its headquarters in London, which includes current collections of children’s literature organised by key stages (according to the National Curriculum of England). Alongside this library it curates a Core Book List for use by teachers in classrooms. This is a resource that teachers can use to help them choose books for their classrooms, it used to be a printed publication but is now available as an online database.

CLPE provides training courses, resources and support for teachers, and all those who work in primary schools. The best known training it provides is the Power of Reading which has been running since 2003 and helps schools to develop Reading for Pleasure and supports them to use children's literature to develop reading and writing.

CLPE is known for its research in the field of literacy teaching. In the 1980s the Centre was responsible for the development of the Primary Language Record. In 2016 it published a revised version of this work as the Reading and Writing Scales, working in partnership with other subject associations.

CLPE also maintains a poetry website Poetryline, which supports teachers with free resources for teaching poetry. . It also runs the CLPE Poetry Award and is a National Poetry Day partner organisation.

CLPE Poetry Award (CLiPPA)
The CLPE Poetry Award for a book of poetry for children was launched in 2003. It is the only award for published poetry for children in the UK. Previous Award winners have included Michael Rosen and Sarah Crossan (2016), Joe Coelho (2015) George Szirtes, Rachel Rooney, Carol Ann Duffy, John Agard, Grace Nichols, Roger McGough and Jackie Kay. . In 2015 and 2016 the award ceremony was held in partnership with the National Theatre and a children's poetry shadowing competition was introduced. Roger McGough, who chaired the judging panel in 2014 and 2015, invented the 'CLiPPA' acronym which stands for Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award. Any published book of poetry for children can be submitted for the award in February. The shortlist for the CLPE Poetry Award is announced in May and the prize is awarded in July of each year.

The Power of Pictures
CLPE have been funded by the Arts Council to undertake a research project where authors and illustrators work with teachers to make the process of creating and producing picture books explicit and encouraging the use of picture books throughout the primary classroom as a way of improving children's writing. Eight author/illustrators (Ed Vere, Benji Davies, Chris Haughton, Viv Schwarz, Mini Grey, Alexis Deacon, Tom McLaughlin and David Lucas) have worked on the project, each working with twenty teachers and providing information about drawing and their creative process. The work is all collected together on one web resource and is available free to all teachers.