The Literacy Times Edition 1: April 24 th 2018 WHAT IS LITERACY? An effective literacy skill set includes reading, writing, speaking and listening. These skills are fundamental in helping you communicate successfully in all subjects and are also used every day in order to communicate with, and make sense of, the world around you. Effective Writing-SPaG Writing skills are vital to exam success in all subject. The priorities are: Word Groups - noun (common, proper and abstract), pronoun, adjective, verb and adverb. Punctuation- capital letter, full stop, comma, apostrophe, inverted commas, question and exclamation mark, hyphens and dash, brackets, colon, semi colon and ellipsis. Fiction Celebrating Literacy Young Writers ‘Stranger Sagas’ competition for Y8. 92 stories have been chosen for publication in the Stranger Sagas-Birmingham Adventures. Fiction- SPaG Focus In your lessons, you will peer-assess and self-assess with a focus on the accuracy of spelling, punctuation and grammar. This will help you to ensure that your Non- World Book Day 2018 Fayre for all year groups- 58 books sold in 2017 and 142 this year! Internationa l Thriller Beat Freeks Poetry Workshop The workshop was delivered to 10 target groups from Y7, Y8 and Y9. Students chose topics from