S1 English:
Reporting Window 2

Course content from January – June  

Completion of the Christmas text “A Christmas Carol” where the final outcomes have been critical essay on a key character. 

All S1 classes will study Robert Burns / Scottish literature developed will be poetry analysis with the outcome being a critical essay on poetic techniques and / or creative writing e.g. a love poem / a creative story on the mouse).  

All S1 classes will study the Shakespeare play A Mid-Summer Nights Dream with creative and critical essay outcomes. 

Writing Skills: The technical aspects of discursive (Formal and Informal Language), Biography & Autobiography and prose structure. 

Close Reading skills using Close Reading 11-14 and RUAE level 3-4 textbooks. A second baseline close reading assessment that is considered secure level 2 showing developing close reading skills at early level 3. 

All S1 pupils continue to visit to the Campus Library. S1 begin all English lessons with personal reading. This is to boost vocabulary, understand a variety of texts and writing style and to develop a culture of engagement with reading to support attainment. 

Key Terminology  

audience / tone / pace / informal / formal / vocabulary / dialect / inform / persuade / entertain / gender, class, nationality and interests (in terms of audience) 

context, paragraphing and linking, imagery, sound devices, punctuation. 

English in S1 covers content from across CfE levels 2 – 4. In general, content will focus predominantly on level 2 and developing level 3.

At this point in the year most S1 pupils will be consolidating skills in both English and Literacy from Primary 7 and the majority of S1 pupils should be able to achieve Second B or above. By June most S1 pupils will be fully secure at Second Level and will be confidently beginning Third Level (D). 

Working Level and Working Grade descriptions for S1 English:

 Second A: Making excellent progress at CfE level 2 and performing well against all outcomes covered. Is able to demonstrate secure understanding of critical terminology and its application in the areas of Reading, Writing, Listening and Talk and recall skills needed to achieve the relevant benchmarks in both written classwork and assessment.

Second B: Making good progress at CfE level 2 and performing well against most outcomes covered. Is able to demonstrate sound understanding of critical terminology and its application in the areas Reading, Writing, Listening and Talk and recall skills needed to achieve the relevant benchmarks both written classwork and assessment.

Second C: Making reasonable progress at CfE level 2 and performing well against many of the outcomes covered. Is able to demonstrate a developing understanding of critical terminology and its application in the areas of Reading, Writing, Listening and Talk and recall skills needed to achieve the benchmarks both written classwork and assessment. May find aspects of written classwork and assessment challenging.

Second D: Making some progress at CfE level 2 and performing well against some of the outcomes covered. Is able to demonstrate a basic understanding of critical terminology and its application in the areas of Reading, Writing, Listening and Talk and recall skills needed to achieve the benchmarks both written classwork and assessment. May struggle to apply aspects of the relevant benchmarks to written classwork and assessment.