1. Literacy Workshop

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

3. 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

4. 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 s 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.

5. 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/

6. 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

7. Primary 1 Phonics Programme: Blocks 1 and 2

8. Primary 1 Phonics Programme: Blocks 3 and 4

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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