{"id":92,"date":"2021-07-26T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/promotingraceequalityandantiracisteducation\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:57:06","slug":"literacy-and-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/promotingraceequalityandantiracisteducation\/home\/scotlands-curriculum\/curriculum-areas\/literacy-and-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy and English"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ALiteracy and English provides opportunities for learners to engage with and create a wide range of texts.\u00a0 Within Curriculum for Excellence, \u2018text\u2019 is defined broadly as the medium through which ideas, experiences, opinions and information can be communicated. Consequently, texts not only include those presented in traditional written or print form, but also orally, pictorially, electronically or on film. Reading and responding to literature and other texts play a central role in the development of learners\u2019 knowledge and understanding of key social issues, including racial equality.<\/p>\n

As children and young people progress in their learning, they encounter texts of increasing complexity in terms of length, structure, vocabulary and, importantly, ideas and concepts.\u00a0 Integral to this process is the development of learners\u2019 understanding of what is valuable about their own and other cultures and languages. An appreciation of diversity in what they read encourages learners to develop respect and appreciation towards those from backgrounds other than their own.\u00a0\u00a0Providing access to texts that accurately reflect the racial and cultural diversity of Scotland and the world should begin with the youngest of learners, allowing them to progress from their earliest years in their appreciation of the links between their own lived experiences and those of others.<\/p>\n

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Experiences and Outcomes<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

(Click here for <\/strong>ideas for learning and teaching which has been mapped to the Literacy and English Experiences and Outcome<\/strong>s<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Critical Literacy<\/h3>\n

\"ThisThe development and application of critical literacy skills are also central to learners\u2019 exploration of a text, for example by considering whose story is being shared, whose voice is being heard, who benefits from the story, who is missing from the story and why this might be the case:<\/p>\n

\u2018Children and young people need not only to be able to read for information; they also need to be able to work out what trust they should place on the information and to identify when and how people are trying to persuade and influence them.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Literacy Across Learning: Principles and Practice<\/a><\/p>\n

Encouraging learners to develop critical literacy skills is important as they access videos and news stories on social media and other places online.<\/p>\n

Resources are available to support children and young people\u2019s critical literacy:<\/strong><\/p>\n