{"id":304,"date":"2011-09-13T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T10:57:29","slug":"literacy-and-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/curriculum\/literacy-and-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy and English"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our\u00a0Literacy and English\u00a0programmes and courses cover:<\/em><\/p>\n

Listening and Talking
\nReading
\nWriting<\/p>\n

At St\u00a0Thomas’ we use a wide range of resources to teach reading.\u00a0 In the infant department our core resource is Storyworld,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 in the middle and upper school Literacy World<\/em> is our core resource.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These books will be sent home as part of your childs\u2019 homework programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We use a wide range of resources to compliment our language programme including: New Nelson Spelling<\/em>, Nelson Grammar<\/em>, New Nelson Handwriting<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0Big Books<\/em>, Literacy Directions<\/em>, Jolly Phonics <\/em>and Focus on Comprehension. <\/em><\/p>\n

Throughout their time at St\u00a0Thomas’ your child will develop a range of writing skills, these skills are taught weekly with pupils writing imaginative stories, poetry, reports, recounts, letter and more.\u00a0 These writing skills are then developed in a variety of real life situations e.g. writing a letter to invite a visitor into school.<\/p>\n

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Our\u00a0Literacy and English\u00a0programmes and courses cover: Listening and Talking Reading Writing At St\u00a0Thomas’ we use a wide range of resources to teach reading.\u00a0 In the infant department our core resource is Storyworld,\u00a0\u00a0 in the middle and upper school Literacy World is our core resource.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These books will be sent home as part of your childs\u2019 homework … Continue reading Literacy and English<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18274,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions\/2070"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StThomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}