Literacy across Learning

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Literacy across Learning

• St Ninians High School

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Baseline questionnaire results

• 40 pupils were asked to fill in a questionnaire
  which asked them about the following activities
  in English, sciences, geography and history.
• I am expected to explain ideas in my own words.
• I learn how to make notes.
• I learn how to summarise.
• I am expected to write in paragraphs and not just
  sentences.

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Summary of findings

• Pupils were more likely to say that they had to
  explain ideas in their own words in English than
  in other subjects.
• Pupils were also more likely to say that they
  were expected to write paragraphs rather than
  sentences in English than in other subjects.

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Findings continued

• Pupils believed they were more likely to write in
  paragraphs and in their own words in History than
  they were in sciences or geography.

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Findings continued

• Although, the majority of pupils saw themselves
  as taking part in these activities most of the
  time and quite often, there was scope for
  improvement.

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Confidence

• We asked pupils whether they found these
  activities easy, challenging or difficult.
• Most claimed they were easy.

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Learning Style

• We asked pupils whether they agreed or disagreed
  that they learned things best from a text book or
  learned things best by putting them in their own
  words.

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