Primary 1 - Early Level Literacy

Online Literacy Lessons for Primary 1 Students in Scotland

Primary One Literacy lessons begin by introducing each letter of the alphabet, teaching children to recognise each of the letters, to know the sound made by the letter and to be able to say it and write it down.

Pupils are introduced to the five vowels, (a, e, i, o, u) and taught to read simple words with short vowels in them. We move on to long vowel words (ai, ee, ie, oa, ue), teaching pupils to say the sounds of the digraphs when they see them.

We then introduce the digraphs th, sh and ch, teaching pupils to read simple words with those digraphs in them and to say the sounds aloud. Pupils are then introduced to tricky words that do not follow the letter sound rules and learn to recognise them and be able to read them. These include the words I, The, the, He, he, She, she, My, my, We, we.

We move on to simple sentences, beginning to use letter sounds and tricky word knowledge to read sentences with picture clues and then to use letter sounds and tricky word knowledge to read sentences without picture clues. Our writing skills lessons teach our pupils to find the letter sounds needed to write three-letter words and to be able to say the words to hear the sounds in them and write them in in the correct order.

We then teach them to find the letter sounds needed to write four-letter words, to write those words, to hear the sounds in words and to write a simple sentence