East Ayrshire Literacy and English

Local and national resources to support home or remote learning

Literacy Resources to support learning from home.

Over the initial lockdown a vast amount of teaching resources was created to support teachers, learners and families with on-line remote learning in literacy. The aim of this post is to highlight and signpost, in one place, a range of high-quality resources to support you as you deliver literacy learning to pupils learning at home.

Guidance on approaches to Blended Learning is provided on the East Ayrshire Glow tile: East Ayrshire Blended Learning Key Documents and Guidance

Support for Planning, Learning Teaching and Assessment in Literacy

In this section are some of the best resources, approaches and sources of inspiration in relation to Literacy. The SAC Literacy Team will continue to add resources to our Literacy Teams site and Glow.

To access the Literacy Teams site you need to send your Glow email address to Gail Elder (gail.elder@eastayrshire.org.uk or one of the SAC Literacy Team: alison.wood@eastayrshire.org.uk, craig.mcallister@eastayrshire.org.uk, sara.green@eastayrshire.org.uk or nicola.macey@eastayrshire.org.uk)

The SAC Literacy Team – EA Literacy Resources

A wide range of resources to support comprehension and writing work. A range of text types is included – books and films available online. The resources are also available on the Home Learning Hub resources are arranged across Early to Third/Fourth Level.

We also have a huge range of Storybook and novel resources available on our Glow pages.

Have you thought about using DARTs activities (on our Literacy Teams site) as part of your home learning? If this is new to you (DARTs = Directed Activities Related to Texts) there is a CLPL teacher session available for you to learn more. There is also a suite of films, texts and activities available here: DARTs on Glow

Home learning support for phonics – printable phonemes and Elkonin boxes available here: Printable graphemes to replace magnetic letters

SAC Speech and Language Team’s Resources

The SAC SaLT team has created some super resources for you to share with families. Find them on our Literacy Teams page here: Speech and Language Channel

Parent Information Keyring Packs

These can be ordered from the Printing Service or shared online with parents. The ALP pack gives parents information about East Ayrshire’s Active Literacy Programme. There is also a pack, created in collaboration with our SaLT team to help parents support the development of phonological awareness skills for Early into First Level children.

GIGLETS

EAC has purchased access for all our schools to Giglets (for 3 years). You may have attended the training session in June, but more can be organised. If you do not already have login details for your pupils, please email seona@giglets.com and copy in gail.elder@eastayrshire.org.uk

The Modelling Guide that shows how Giglets and ALP align is available.

East Ayrshire Learning Outdoors Support Team (LOST)

East Ayrshire LOST have developed a range of activities to take learning in Literacy into outdoor spaces. A great source of inspiration when planning learning.

East Ayrshire Home Learning Hub More ideas for family learning activities.

Pobble can provide stimuli for all sorts of literacy activities.

Professional Learning

Access to Professional Learning and Resources information on professional learning and links to resources and the online training hosted is on our Teams site. (Request access to the Literacy Teams Site) You will need a Glow account to access Teams.

Any staff wishing to refresh their knowledge or start their East Ayrshire Active Literacy journey, please follow the links to the recorded ALP sessions, or look in the Recorded Training Sessions channel to the left of this post. They are organised as follows:

Stages 1-3 Session One- An Introduction to the Active Literacy Programme (ALP)
Stages 4-7 Session One (and secondary staff)- An Introduction to the ALP
Stages 1-3 Session Two – Phonics and Spelling
Stages 4-7 Session Two- Phonics and Spelling
Stages 1-3 Session Three A and B – Reading
Stages 4-7 Session Three A and B – Reading

We have a Literacy Teams Site where there are also links to all the resources and recorded sessions. Teams will most likely continue to be the platform for any Literacy Training and CLPL sessions for the foreseeable future.

Speech & Language Resources on Glow this includes information and guidance for engaging parents with the importance of Listening and Phonological Awareness
Literacy – Listening & Talking Resources on Glow for staff

SAC DUG Delivering Understandable Grammar

Writing

We have developed our writing resources for EA schools to ensure there is guidance and starter lessons for each CFE text type.

SAC COW is now available to support you in the delivery of writing across all text types. There is a whole suite of professional learning sessions which outline the EA approach to teaching writing in our schools.

NATIONAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT BLENDED LEARNING

e-Sgoil

Education Scotland, e-Sgoil, the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland (ADES), the Scottish Government and Regional Improvement Collaboratives (RICs) are working in partnership to increase the support available nationally for e-learning and you will be able to access that range of support here.

The National e-Learning offer complements the online learning being provided by schools, local authorities and RICs across Scotland.

National e-Learning Offer

e-sgoil Study Support Schedule

e-sgoil BGE Offer (From P2 – S3)

e-sgoil Senior Phase Offer

e-sgoil Resources to support teaching remotely

Education Scotland Literacy and English PLC provides a range of resources to support planning, learning, teaching and assessment in Literacy across all levels.

Scotland Learns – Literacy and English

Useful Literacy Website Links – in Literacy Organiser format Compiled by Literacy Leads across Scotland, this document has a wealth of links to support professional learning and resources to support remote learning.

Robert Burns- work recorded by the BBC

SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST CLPL for learning professionals

Scottish Book Trust offers funded online and in-person training courses for teachers and learning professionals.

The Two O’Shanters – Robert Burns Workshop

If you’d like to add a twist to your Burns this year for Upper Primary and Secondary, take a look at this talented Performance Poet, Simon Lamb as recommended by SWEIC colleagues.

Simon is offering a workshop of @ 90 mins (start until break/break until lunch or afternoon slot) for £150 in person or a 45-50 mins £75 online/Covid friendly workshop (special prices for our SWEIC Group – he lives in Prestwick!).

Here’s a wee taster of his work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svj5KxEiwxI

DARTs – Teaching Reading Comprehension Wed 21.10.20 at 4pm

DARTs are activities that are designed to challenge pupils to engage with texts. They ask them to read closely and to interpret the information carefully. The aim is to improve pupils’ reading comprehension and to develop them as critical readers. DARTs can often go beyond the comprehension question, which can sometimes only ask pupils to move information, rather than to understand it. Join us on the Active Literacy Teams site.

Further Giglets Training Webinars for EA staff

The fantastic Giglets team is offering further Giglets training webinars for staff who have yet to attend this training. The Giglets resource has been bought for all EA schools for 3 years and most of our schools have already signed up.

The Giglets resource is an online library of books from a range of genres. The SAC Literacy team is developing a resource to support using Giglets text to model reading into writing for the main text types of writing we teach.

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Teaching Children to Listen- Professional Learning Session with the SAC Speech and Language Team

The Scottish Attainment Speech and Language therapy team is hosting an online session ‘Teaching Children To Listen’ on MS Teams. You can join the session which starts at 3.45pm tomorrow, Wednesday 30th September here.

The session is suitable for any practitioner or manager in Primary or Secondary who would like to learn more about speech, language & communication to support the children & young people they work with.

Aim :	To raise awareness of attention and listening skills and the significant link to literacy development and attainment. How to support children and young people’s attention and listening.
Content:	What are attention and listening skills? How attention and listening skills develop. How to support development of attention and listening skills e.g. resources available. The link between attention and listening skills and literacy. The link between attention and listening skills and attainment. When and how to seek support from Speech and Language Therapy.

Unpacking SAC DUG

SAC DUG hopes you all enjoyed the long weekend and also the good weather.

The SAC Literacy Team hopes you can join us on MS Teams on Tuesday 22nd September at 15.45 – 17.00 to learn more about SAC DUG

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Tap on the link or paste it in a browser to join. Hope to see you then.

SAC DUG unleashed

The SAC literacy team is running a session on how to get the most from our SAC DUG resource. (Scottie the Attainment Canine, Delivering Understandable Grammar.) We are hosting this on MSTeams on Tuesday 22nd September at 15.45 – 17.00. Join the meeting using this link: You’re invited to a Teams meeting!
SAC DUG CLPL
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Tap on the link or paste it in a browser to join. Hope to see you then.

Developing a Reading Culture Planning and Evaluation Toolkit

If you plan to develop a reading culture in your school, this helpful document can help you plan and measure the steps you take. You can access through this link: https://www.readingchallenge.scot/resources/how-good-our-school-4-planning-and-evaluation-toolkit. You may need to register for FMRC to do it but that’s obviously free.

Scottish Book Trust Read, Write, Count webinars

The Scottish Book Trust wanted to get in touch to let you know about the upcoming online webinars on Read, Write, Count. These sessions will support Primary 1-3 teachers to gift the bags to pupils effectively and safely during the current circumstances, give them practical advice and ideas for utilising the bags, and showcase online resources available to staff to engage with families and encourage home-learning. Learning professionals can sign up for the free webinars via the website and they recommend P1-3 teachers and support staff register to attend.

Best wishes,
Rachael

Rachael Laburn School Communities Manager

07827336867 | @rach_laburn | @ScottishBkTrust

Scottish Book Trust

Browse our Home Activities Hub to find engaging resources for children and teens.

Reading for Pleasure – Recorded Webinar

A recording of the recent Reading for Pleasure webinar with Dr Sarah McGeown of Edinburgh University and Rachael Laburn of the Scottish Book Trust can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/hhkRoGuj5ZM It has research based ideas and advice on creating a school reading culture!