Literacy Workshop 7.3.18

Plan for today Welcome & Tea and Coffee Presentation Questions Resources Ideas for future Parents’ time

Curriculum for Excellence Literacy – Experiences and Outcomes There are 3 components/ organisers for Literacy Listening and Talking, Reading and Writing The curriculum spans from Early Level to Fourth level (3- 18years) Experiences are planned for children and young people in 4 contexts including ethos and life of the school, interdisciplinary studies and learning within curriculum areas and discrete subjects Wider achievement

Examples of texts Texts are published in a variety of formats, including novels, short stories, plays, poems and reference texts the spoken word, charts, maps, graphs and timetables advertisements, promotional leaflets comics, newspapers and magazines CVs, letters and emails films, games and TV programmes labels, signs and posters recipes, manuals and instructions reports and reviews text messages, blogs and social networking sites web pages, catalogues and directories. In Saint Mark’s Primary we make use of a mixture of the above.

Examples of spelling and reading sources used in St Mark’s School Spelling Sources P1 –P3 – Edinburgh Literacy Rich Programme (Phonics based) P3-P7 – Prim Ed Spelling (Books A-F) Reading Sources P1 - P4 –Oxford Reading Tree, Tree Tops P4 - P7 – Literacy World, Novels, Non Fiction Books Support for Learning - Read Write Inc (P3 & P4) Fresh Start (P5 – P7) Sound Start (Everyone) Wolf Hill, Wellington Square Project X – Middle to Upper School Useful Reading websites: scottishbooktrust.com/ https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=9 http://mrnussbaum.com/readingcomp/woodpecker

Overview of the Literacy Rich Edinburgh Primary 1 Phonics Programme This programme recognises the four literacy organisers (Reading, Writing, Listening and Talking) as outlined in Curriculum for Excellence. It links to the Early Level, and begins to develop First Level, literacy experiences and outcomes. Each literacy experience and outcome recognises the nature of the learning to be achieved. The following table gives an overview of the four teaching blocks. The expectation is that the majority of the content will be taught in Primary 1. The programme works at three levels – word level, sentence level and text level. Overview of the Literacy Rich Edinburgh Primary 1 Phonics Programme

Primary 1 Phonics Programme: Blocks 1 and 2

Primary 1 Phonics Programme: Blocks 3 and 4

Skills progression: Block 1 This table outlines the skills and interactive learning opportunities necessary to develop early literacy.

Skills progression: Block 2 This table outlines the skills and interactive learning opportunities necessary to develop early literacy.

Skills progression: Block 3 This table outlines the skills and interactive learning opportunities necessary to develop early literacy.

Skills progression: Block 4 This table outlines the skills and interactive learning opportunities necessary to develop early literacy.

Primary 2 Phonics Programme: Blocks 5 & 6 This programme recognises the four literacy organisers (Reading, Writing, Listening and Talking) as outlined in Curriculum for Excellence. It links with Early Level and begins to develop First Level literacy experiences and outcomes. Each literacy experience and outcome recognises the nature of the learning to be achieved. Block 5 Introduce words of one syllable with soft c and soft g Teach segmenting and blending, eg ace grace ice chance fence chance budge Block 5 common words Connective and Block 6 Segmenting and word-building two-syllable compound words, eg rainbow banknote speedboat Other two-syllable words, eg adult camel dentist never Block 6 common words

Primary 2 Phonics Programme: Blocks 7 & 8 Segmenting and word-building two-syllable words ending in ing: short vowel – eg • camping gasping burning long vowel – eg • failing raining long vowel – eg • flying drawing short vowel – eg • hopping skipping Block 7 common words Connectives but because Block 8 Two-syllable words dropping the e and adding ing, eg baking rising sloping Segmenting and word-building words ending in ed: ending sounds like • ed – eg belted heated ending sounds like • d – eg killed saved ending sounds like • t – eg wished reached • changing to i before ed – eg cried married Block 8 common words Connectives and but because

Spelling P3 – P7 We use Prim Ed as a spelling progression (Books A – F) Spelling patterns and common words are learned Active spelling approaches are used to encourage the learning of spelling words and to give a variety of different ways to practise spelling Spelling activities will be handed out to Parents alongside homework walls as tasks within the homework tasks. Pupils are encouraged to complete spelling tasks in this way. Useful websites: Doorway speller online http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

Literacy Events in St Mark’s 2017/2018 Paired reading with buddies (P6 & P7) Scottish Book week (Book Bug and Read, Write, Count) in November Book Treasure Hunt Book swap ERIC Time Library visits World Book Day First Minister’s Reading Challenge Parent Helpers supporting reading in P1 Word Boost