This resource includes 11 detailed understanding questions that help pupils to generate notes on ‘A Hanging’ by George Orwell.

This resource includes a step-by-step guide to writing a Critical Essay on the Dracula play. It encourages pupils to use PEER paragraphs for the first time. Ideal for use with Primary 7, S1 or S2 classes or Year 6-9.

A Guardian article and RUAE questions. Suitable for National 5 or Higher revision. Good as classwork or homework.

This is a comprehensive Literacy unit that will provide evidence for pupils ability in Reading, Writing, Talking and Listening. I use it with all S1/ Y7 students in order to profile their Literacy abilities. This unit offers engaging tasks and worksheets that will challenge and support all learners.

This resource includes a Reading, Writing and Listening assessment and Research Project all linked to the theme of LEGO! Pupils will watch the 75th Anniversary film (15mins) about LEGO’s history and will complete a listening task. The will use LEGO stimulus pictures to inspire Creative Writing. Also included are two interpretation passages (differentiated & with marking schemes). Finally, pupils will have the opportunity to complete a research project into the history of LEGO. Suitable for: Primary 6, Primary 7, S1 Y5, Y6, Y7

This resource is a model essay on the poem ‘Havisham’ by Carol Ann Duffy. The resource can be used to model good practice and highlight ‘A’- level analysis. The essay has also been annotated and coded to show where high level evaluation takes place, where literary techniques are identified and where the candidate links back to the essay question

The power point takes pupils through tasks that develop understanding of the difference between direct and reported speech. The worksheet includes pictures of famous Scots from popular culture and requires pupils to change reported speech to direct speech, in Scots Language. Ideal for use with Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7, S1, S2

This resource includes key quotations and analysis for the characters of: Blanche, Stella and Stanley. This resource can be used to support Critical Essay Writing for Higher, AS Level or A Level.

These notes include all the information pupils will require about the Higher RUAE paper. This includes: information on how to answer each question, types of sentence structures, language techniques and information on how to answer the 5-mark question.

This resource includes: How to guide to answering In Your Own Words exam questions. Seven In Your Own Words example questions. Seven worked answers. Ideal for National 5 or Higher students. This resource can be used in class or is ideal as a homework activity. The answer scheme can be used to do peer/ self assessment. This worksheet has had a significant impact on the performance of my students in ‘In Your Own Words’ questions.

This resource includes a high quality essay that tackles a question on a flawed character who nonetheless gains our admiration. The resource also includes an activity that encourages young people to identify techniques mentioned in the essay, find important quotations and annotate the quality analysis. This is a very worthwhile resource to illustrate how to write an effective critical essay. It would be ideal for use with Higher/ National 6/ As level and A level classes.

This resource can be used in conjunction with the SQA endorsed ‘Hodder & Gibson’ National 5 textbook. It includes a marking scheme for the Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluating passege titled ‘Scotland’s Greatest Cartoonist’. It can be projected onto the board to allow for self/ peer assessment of the passage.

This resource could be used with either National 5 or Higher and has been prior verified. It includes a link to a clip about Hamisham- the character from Great Expectations- and Listening questions. Also included in this pack is an answer scheme for this assessment.

This resource is ideal for use with BGE or Year 6-9 classes. It uses six Active Literacy strategies to help pupils to understand the poem ‘Mid Term Break’ by Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Skills the pupils will develop are: Prior knowledge, metalinguistics, visualisation, inference, main ideas and summarising.

This resource includes a non-fiction newspaper article- ‘The Urban Fox’ and a Sow in power point form. The SoW uses the six Active Literacy strategies to help pupils understand and access the passage. This recource is ideal for use with S1& S2 or Year 6 and Year 7 students as an introduction to Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluating (RUAE).

This resource can be used in conjunction with the SQA endorsed ‘Hodder & Gibson’ National 5 textbook. It includes a marking scheme for the Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluating passege titled ‘The Price of Bacon’. It can be projected onto the board to allow for self/ peer assessment of the passage.

This resource was designed to be used with a Higher class and will result in a Critical Essay that tackles the importance of SETTING in the play. The resource includes a Higher level exam question, a summary of when SETTING played a vital role in the text and a ‘skeleton plan’ for structuring a critical essay that deals with setting. Ideal for use with: Higher/ National 6 GCSE AS Level A Level This resource will offer scaffolding for Critical Essay writing.

This resource includes a broadsheet newspaper article with certain techniques underlined. It requires pupils to identify the techniques and explain their effect. Perfect for use with National 5 or Higher. The article is titled ‘A touch of the macabre’. Includes a marking scheme with possible answers. I used this for RUAE/ Close Reading practise with a Higher class- ideal homework activity that can be self/ peer assessed using the marking scheme.

The resource includes an essay question, plan and a model essay.

This resource looks at a section of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - Scrooge’s Old Love- and uses six effective reading strategies (Prior knowledge, Metalinguistics, Visualisation, Main Ideas, Summarising, Inference) to help pupils to understand the language and style of Dickens work. The resource can also be used to draw comparisons between the book and the Disney Film. This resource has been created in conjunction with the North Lanarkshire Active Literacy steps.