Education Scotland colleagues have made a number of resources available to support learning and teaching of literacy across learning in secondary settings (click here to link to National Improvement Hub source).

These resources offer practical advice for practitioners in all curricular areas on how to plan learning and teaching experiences to develop and extend young people’s literacy skills, and has sections for ‘Reading’, ‘Listening and Talking’ and ‘Writing’.

Each section of the resource includes reflective questions for practitioners or groups of practitioners to use for self-evaluation purposes and/or to inform planning.  There is an  informative introductory PowerPoint and clear references to the key CfE documentation which supports literacy across learning are made (including Building the Curriculum 1 and 3-18 Literacy and English Review). As well as highlighting the core skills required to improve literacy across all subjects, the resource outlines approaches to support teaching and learning of literacy and can be downloaded as PDF documents.

The power point image above is hyperlinked to a professional learning presentation about writing which can be used by faculty heads or practitioners as part of collegiate professional learning – simply click to open. It offers useful guidance on planning, delivering and assessing writing for different purposes from first level onwards.

Similarly, click on the resources below to access the Education Scotland support materials for writing. These national support materials complement the planning guidance available in our Falkirk Literacy and English Progression Pathways (click here to view – Glow log in required) :

Information about skills and progression of writing

See the sample image below for Explaining, analysing, evaluating

Creating rich writing tasks across the curriculum

How listening and taking help with writing

Interim writing – how to edit and review writing

A peer review pro forma which helps pupils structure and provide feedback on writing