The development of literacy skills plays an important role in all teaching and learning.

Pupils develop and expand their literacy skills and knowledge when they have opportunities to:

• effectively communicate, collaborate and build relationships with others.
• reflect on and explain  literacy and thinking skills, using constructive feedback to support them improve and provide useful feedback for others.
• engage with and create a wide range of texts in different media, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by ICT.
• develop an understanding of what is special, vibrant and valuable about their own and other cultures and their languages.
• explore the richness and diversity of language, how it can affect them, and the wide range of ways in which they can be creative.
• extend and enrich  vocabulary through listening, talking, watching and reading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In developing my English language skills pupils:

•  engage with a wide range of texts and develop an appreciation of the richness and breadth of Scotland’s literary and linguistic heritage.
• enjoy exploring and discussing word patterns and text structures.

Through play we further embed the development of teaching and learning of literacy skills.

• We introduce children to words through storytelling, nursery rhymes, singing and books
• Developing the meaning of words through book
• We prepare and support children’s ability to physically write and develop their imagination to write.