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5 Ways To Easily Support Your Child’s English and Literacy Skills

Listen to them read a chapter of a book or to their solo talk/presentation – give feedback
Read a news article or watch the news together and talk about the ideas and language in it
Ask them to write a page about something they have done that week and read it afterwards
Tell them about what you have been recently reading and watching
Create a story together

Here is a PowerPoint to help further, which is from the 2018 Parent Workshop about literacy.

Have a look here for more ideas:

https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/learning-at-home/Supporting%20literacy%20at%20home

https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/Documents/ReadingTips_SecondaryEN.pdf

http://www.getreadytoread.org/early-learning-childhood-basics/early-literacy/promoting-family-literacy-raising-ready-readers

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

Book Lists

S cottish Book Trust Teen Lists

BHS LRC Booklists - S1-S3

AH English Themes

Course Information

BGE

All S1-S3 pupils are expected, as homework, to read for at least twenty minutes a day. This informs all aspects of the subject of English. Other additional homework will be set by individual teachers.

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S1

S2

S3

Senior Phase

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National 3/4

National 5

Higher

Advanced Higher

Media

We also offer Media as a subject in our department - National 4 level to Higher level.

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Materials

Norman McCaig

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