Literacy

Second Level (P5-P7)

EM Teacher Tools and Year End Targets v1 June 2020.docx
GME Teacher Tools and Year End Targets v1 June 2020.docx
Rationale Literacy and Numeracy frameworks v1 June 2020.docx

"Talk for Writing"

Highland Literacy Development Team's Challenge!

2020 Literacy Challenge (2nd Level)-These challenges come from Highland's Literacy Development Team!

Highland Literacy-Teaching Together-Apart

Mindset Crossword

Picture Puzzles

Maze

Design Your Own Superhero

Creative Writing

Create your own Poster

Wordsearch (Activities)

Wordsearch (Confidence)

Posters to Colour In

New: Sudoku (with Words!)

When any of these are completed, we would love for you to take a picture of them and tweet @livenlearnuk. The last sudoku style one is a personal creation of mine, any feedback would be welcome.

For more, visit our Home Learning section or click here for your portal and enter code support.

Fun Learning Ideas from V&A in Dundee!

Contact the team at: Schools@vandadundee.org

Videogame Review Sheet.pdf
Video Game Character Design.pdf
Comic Book Creator.pdf
Design a Car of the Future.pdf
Design a House of the Future.pdf

Check out these Activities!

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World Book Reader

A fantastic site with access to free electronic books!

Newsround

Keep your child up to date with what is happeneing in the world. Newsround is updated daily with current afairs written for children. There is a mixture of articles to read and ones to listen to. There are quizzes and games that hav an educational value to them too.

Scholastic online learning

Scholastic is an educational publisher who has organised a series of lessons and activities for children to do at home.

Getepic (Epic Books)

Epic Books is an online (library of around 35,000 quality books. There are fiction books as well as non-fiction, comic strips and videos. There are also quizzes to accompany the stories. It is also available as an app from the Chromebook Playstore!

BBC Bitesized Spelling and Grammar

This contains entertaining video clips, word lists and teaching to help children understand when to use different spellings. It is useful, to ask you child to also write down the words as they are more likely to be remembered and spelled correctly if they are handwritten. There aren’t any tasks for them to do, but they will help to reinforce spelling paterns, grammar and punctuation.

Spellzone

Spellzine has a large bank of spelling games that encourage children to think about how words are written and to remember their spellings. It is useful, to ask you child to also write down the words as they are more likely to be remembered and spelled correctly if they are handwritten.

Newslea

Access to reliable news content with 10 new texts published every day

CommonLit

A free reading programme for students of all ages

Duolingo

Learn huge range of languages for free! Web-based or app can be downloaded via Chromebook Playstore

British Council Language Resources

Resources for English language learning

Pupil Access to Highlife Highland Digital Resources

Instructions on how to access Highlife Highland's vast bank of electronic resource