In the English Department at Irvine Royal Academy, your child will experience a wide range of opportunities to enhance and develop their reading, writing, talking, and listening skills.
Education Scotland describes the first three years of secondary school as the BGE (Broad General Education).
Follow the links below to find out more about:
Reading for Gold Homework – Bronze, Silver and Gold Booklets
Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation
Get to grips with WISSO techniques:
Labyrinth – Textual analysis
The Distant Hours – Textual analysis
Why You Don’t See Baby Pigeons – RUAE
Michael Morpurgo Reading Passage with questions
S1 Comparison Project
S2 Comparison Project
S3 Mini AVU Comparison Project
Reading for Enjoyment
Access Books and Audiobooks Online for free via
The North Ayrshire Council library app
Open Library Website
Young Adult Fiction Audio books
Ideas
Go for some classics like ‘Treasure Island’, ‘Little Women’ and the works of HP Lovecraft at: https://www.gutenberg.org/
Make a top five list of classics that you aim to read and go for it. Keep a record of your reading and try to identify how the author created the characters and the narrative.
Write this up and share with your teacher.
Or…
If you are a fan of superheroes and comics then head to https://www.dckids.com/ to read free editions of some of DC’s top superhero comics. There are even cartoon episodes to watch.
Once you have read some, why not make your own comic? How about superhero kid coping with 12 weeks off school by helping others – at https://edu.pixton.com/solo. You can then share your link with your teacher to get feedback. Also, you can enter your comic for the Pixton comic of the week.
Writing Ideas
Test your creativity and imagination by challenging yourself to complete a writing task every day: Short Creative writing tasks
If you like spooky and scary things, your sure to enjoy having a go at this Supernatural writing unit
Have a go at writing your own RPG computer game with an aim to write dialogue to develop your characters and narrative: https://rpgplayground.com/
Share with your friends to test one anothers games. Then, give one another feedback on where there are issues and what you liked about one another’s work. Use Hangouts or email to do so.
Write a blog about a topic of your choice. Each day, find out some information on your chosen topic and then write it up at: https://www.blogger.com/about/?r=1-null_user
Grammar and Knowledge and Langauge
Still don’t know your verbs from your adjectives? Create an account at http://www.englicious.org/lesson/register-englicious-website and start working through the lessons and tests.
Set yourself a target to know:
- How to use a full stop
- How to use a comma
- How to use a paragraph
- How to identify clauses in a sentence
- How to identify a verb, adverb, noun and adjective
- When to use a colon or a semi-colon in your writing.
Here are some materials to get you started:
Spelling word search
Semi Colons Activity Sheet
Homophones activity sheets
Proof-Reading-Activities
Active-and-Passive-Voice-Activity-Sheet
Listening and Talking
Keep learning about a range of topics from the minds that brought us Ted talks: https://ed.ted.com/ or was short videos about on English Language and English Literature or on Bitesize.
Summarise what you have heard and then think about making your own videos. Use Google Slides and Loom to create presentations that contain music and a narrator.
Love ‘Stranger Things’? Have a listen to ‘Mars Patel’, a mystery podcast set in a school: https://www.marspatel.com/
Get into Radio Podcasts from the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/Podcasts
And if you must watch something…at least make sure it’s something interesting: INTO FILM
