Literacy Toolkit Second Level/KS2 Anchor Charts

Support learners across reading, comprehension and writing with this colourful set of 8 Second Level Literacy Toolkit anchor charts, designed with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) in mind.

These child-friendly posters give learners practical strategies they can refer to independently, helping them organise ideas, improve written work, answer comprehension questions and explain their thinking clearly.

Included in this pack:
VCOP Toolkit – Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation to strengthen writing
PEEL Paragraphs – Point, Evidence, Explain and Link for clear, well-structured responses
Reading Comprehension Toolkit – strategies including main idea, evidence, inference, prediction, clarification, summarising and questioning
Inference Toolkit – using clues from the text and prior knowledge to read between the lines
Using Evidence from the Text – finding, referring to and explaining evidence to support an answer
Editing Checklist – checking capitals, spelling, punctuation, meaning, word choice, sentence variety, paragraphs and presentation
Show, Don’t Tell – using actions, body language, dialogue, senses and strong verbs to make writing more vivid
Up-Level Your Writing – improving vocabulary, sentence openers, detail, conjunctions, punctuation and sentence variety

Key skills developed:
reading comprehension • inference • textual evidence • paragraph structure • VCOP • editing • proofreading • vocabulary • sentence variety • descriptive writing • independent learning

Perfect for:
Second Level / P5–P7
Scottish Curriculum for Excellence
Literacy displays
Reading and writing working walls
Whole-class teaching
Guided reading
Independent writing
Comprehension activities
Writing conferences
Small-group support
ASN and additional support
Revision and visual reminders

Each toolkit is supplied on its own full page, making the resource easy to print, laminate and display individually around your classroom.

A practical and colourful collection designed to give learners a go-to literacy toolkit for reading, responding, editing and improving their writing with greater independence and confidence.