Project based on A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. Pupils research and create a brochure/booklet on a particular moment on history. The booklet is for time travel tourists who want to blend in into a historic moment. Resources include: - Research sheet - Specifications - Letter and background information on key area

Close Reading/Reading for UAE resources including - Passage and Questions (Looking at Britain's inability to deal with snow) Questions look at variety of skills but there is a focus on tone. - Marking Scheme - PPT introducing passage and hints on how to answer tone - PPT with Marking Scheme Passage is taken from The Times and questions could be used for a National 5 or Higher class

Six PowerPoints that will take pupils through annotation of the Scottish Text Duffy poems - suitable for National 5 or Higher.

Scaffolded unit that explores four poems with the theme of loss: - My Busconductor - Roger McGough - The Identification - Roger McGough - Sorting Through - Liz Lochhead - Mid Term Break - Seamus Heaney The lessons go from class work-group work-paired work and individual work for each poem. There is also workbooklets to extend the work for two of the poems.

Resources to help pupils develop their Reading for UAE/Close Reading Skills. The article focuses on the positives (or not!) of supporting a football team - which appeals to a lot of boys. The resources include; - Copy of the article - Article with techniques identified and accompaying worksheet that lets pupils analyse technqiues - PPT to help pupils create their own CR/RUAE questions - PPT with help to answer specific RUAE style questions (focus on National 5) - Resources to help pupils break down and read the passage in more detail

Resources include - Critical Essay Skills PPT - Handouts on improving vocabulary - Checklist for essay skills

Class Quiz used to revise Reading for UAE skills including: - Vocabulary - Imagery - In Your Own Words - Link - Sentence Structure - Connotations

Powerpoint that encourages pupils to develop their analysis so that they write their answers in more depth. There is examples, an explaination of the difference between explain and analyse and several practice passages. Each practice has a MUST/SHOULD/COULD success criteria to allow pupils to work on different skills

Resources include: - Introduction to poetry - Study pack - Copy of poem - Analysis of poem - Essay Skills

Themed Unit looking at the City. Tasks/Work includes: - Listening Task on Roman Cities - Poetry Study - Hotel Rm 12th Floor - Fiction Study - On The Sidewalk Bleeding (leading to an critical essay) - Group Discussion - Design a Refugee Camp

Resource includes: - Copy of poem - Writing task - Pair Activity with questions on poem

Looking at skills in these FOUR areas Distinguishing Fact vs Opinion Summarising a writer’s arguments Analysis Skills Writing my Opinion

This resource was used for a class that needed structured work and was designed to let pupils work at their own pace throughout the novel and allowed the teacher to support those who needed it. For each chapter there are activities for pupils to work on, including questions on what happens. The teacher copy gives answers for each task pupils are set.

Unit of work designed to help pupils explore the novel Carrie's War by Nina Bawden. Activities include: - Group discussion on character - Personal writing - Going On A Journey - Essay Writing - Character Study

Collection of resources that allow pupils to develop their understanding skills: In Your Own Words and Summarising. There are mini passages with questions and PPTs that take pupils through the skills and with examples and practices for the pupils.

Resources to help support pupils developing close reading/ Reading for UAE skills Resources include: - How to Read A Passage and identify techniques - Strategies to answer questions with examples - Revision PPT These resources help pupils to develop their understanding and analysis skills and could be adapted for other curriculums.

Lesson(s) to help pupils to develop their Reading for UAE skills. The PPT and Bingo card allows pupils to study and analyse the text before answering National 5 RUAE style answers Passage is adpated from an old Intermediate One paper This passage help pupils to develop their understanding and analysis skills and could be adapted for other curriculums.

Selection of quotes about the joy and value of reading and books. Each poster is A4 with a coloured quote and a picture of a teenager reading.

Each PPT slide had a short paragraph or passage taken from a range of sources (fiction and non-fiction) Underneath each paragraph is three tasks. A Must, A Should and A Could - this allows for pupils to work through each lesson starter at a pace suitable for them. These are analysis based tasks looking at things such as word choice and sentence structure. Would be useful for a class working on Close Reading/Reading for UAE. Have been used as lesson starters of an extenstion activity for pupils.

Each sheet is a poem with illustration. Was used in a library display to encourage pupils to read more poetry. Poem was changed each week.