English
English Language learning and teaching aims to develop skills and knowledge, to support pupils' personal development, through a range of literature and language. The department aims to promote a positive attitude in pupils to their and others' benefit
Staff
Mrs L McCann(Head of Faculty) Mrs K Smith Mrs H Bannen Ms C Riggs Mr C McNeil
Main source of materials: Teams
Pupils can access ‘Teams via their GLOW account.
All S1-3 Classes will have the following:
· General Close Reading resources
· Punctuation and grammar website links
· Developing Reading Activities
· Developing Writing Activities
· Ideas to improve your English Study
· Reading comprehension activities
Note: all work is in the class materials folder in the FILES section of your Team. If you are having trouble accessing the files – this may happen if you are not using a laptop or desktop app – then please follow the link you will be given for your class below. You can then go to the folder for your year group to access the files and lessons.
At the end of this there is also a fantastic list of general resources that are definitely worth having a look at.
Click on the relevant Year Group below to jump straight to that section.
Other sources…
BBC Languages and BBC Bitesize have helpful materials and interesting videos.
LINK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zc7xpv4
Work through some SQA Past Papers – papers from the past five years with marking schemes are available for free. There are also numerous revision resources on the SQA site.
LINK: https://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/findpastpaper.htm
Scholar has materials for N5 & Higher. You can log in to Scholar using your GLOW account.
LINK: https://scholar.hw.ac.uk
https://englishmaven.org/index.html
This has a range of activities on a variety of English topics from reading comprehension to spelling activities. The tasks are interactive and completed on-line. You can choose low, medium or high grade work, depending on your confidence level. It is an American site so some spelling will be different but all the grammar is correct.
https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/free-reading-worksheets/reading-comprehension-worksheets
· Really useful for reading comprehension.
· Grade 2-6 is easy, Grade 4-8 are more difficult.
· You can complete the activities on-line or look at the PDF and write your answers.
· The answers to the multiple choice questions can be viewed on line by clicking ‘view answers’.
https://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Punctuation.html
Lots of worksheets on grammar and punctuation.
YOUTUBE – surprising, we know, but there are lots of tutorials on grammar and punctuation by teachers. Don’t rely on the student led ones as there may be some errors.
World book online have just made over 3,000 ebooks and audiobooks free to access at home
https://worldbook.kitaboo.com/reader/worldbook/#!/
Guardian online https://www.theguardian.com/uk
BBC Newsround https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
Listening and understanding
Ted Ed an education nod to youtube
https://www.ted.com/watch/ted-ed
Practise your English grammar and punctuation with this useful website:
Choose your yr group (S1 is yr 7, S2 is yr 8, S3 is yr 9 etc), then click on the skill you wish to explore. Before you complete the exercises, click on the 'Learn with an example' tab on the top right as this will talk you through the skill.
This is a fantastic website from Bristol University. Choose the grammar or punctuation section you wish to explore and read the information pages in section B. It would be really useful to make your own notes at this point or download/print the pages so you can annotate the sheets and keep for revision. You then go to the 'exercises' tab and complete the exercises on that punctuation mark, or element of grammar. Use the 'check your answer' tab to get immediate feedback. Record your score. After a few days, do the exercise again - if you score well, you have retained the information; if not, go back and revise your notes then try the exercise again. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_01.htm