This is a guided writing task. It prompts creative writing by using scary images and work banks and examples of effective creative writing. The presentation then goes onto plan for a scary story and includes a review sheet at the end. This resource is best suited to Y7-9 or S1-S3 students. It could be used around Halloween time for a bit of fun in English!

This resource includes: evidence to suggest that the sale of fireworks should be banned in the uk Paragraph plan for a persuasive essay Model essay with task This resource is ideal for Ks3 or Level 3 students who are learning the skill of persuasive writing. It can also be used with weaker National 5 students who may be at risk of defaulting their folio.

Encourage your class to use similes, metaphors and interesting word choices with this colouful and very visual resource. There are opportunities to create similes, metaphors, a word bank and to respond to a visual stimulus around the theme of bonfire night/ Guy Fawke’s night. Includes model paragraph.

A National 5/ GCSE resource aimed at supporting Critical Essay writing. This pack includes a selection of key quotations, a well-structured example essay and some possible National 5/ GCSE exam questions. This should be used after teaching the play in order to support essay writing.

This pack includes a comprehensive plan to encourage personal writing by thinking about appearance, best qualities, worst qualities and plans and ambitions. It also includes a model essay to illustrate good practice (which has been annotated to show effective word choices, imagery and punctuation). This resource could be used for younger secondary school students or could assist with National 5 folio- particularly in students who have missed class time (folio recovery).

This resource can be used with secondary school students to promote personal writing. It includes: Learning Intentions; Success Criteria; Examples; sentence by sentence approach aimed at promoting more stylish writing. The aim of this lesson is for students to select five objects that are significant to them and explain why whilst offering personal reflection. This power point encourages quality personal writing.

This power point will take pupils through the structure of a Critical Essay on ‘A Hanging’ by George Orwell. The essay follows a PEER structure and offers examples. It tackles the following question: Choose a non-fiction text which made you think about a social issue. Explain briefly what that issue is and at greater length show how the writer’s treatment of the issue conveyed her or his point of view. In your answer you must refer closely to the text and to at least two of: setting, theme, style, descriptive detail, or any other relevant feature. This resource is ideal for use with a National 5, GCSE, AS Level, or Higher English class.

This resource offers a detailed essay plan for a question that asks about an effective ending. PEEr paragraphs are used and scaffolding is given initially and then taken away in order to promote independent writing.

This resource includes guidance on completing a research project into a Geek god or gorgon. It also includes a talk assessment sheet.

This resource includes identification of the key scene/ turning point of the play and a skeleton plan for answering an exam question on ‘KEY SCENE/ TURNING POINT’

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

This resource includes reviews of the play taken from review sites and newspaper articles. It also includes a structured plan that will allow pupils to complete an Added Value Unit that can be used as part of their National 4 English qualification.

This resource can be used by teachers to record the performance of an individual/ group in their Talk assessment. This is a handy resource to keep in a pupils evidence folder in order to prove that they attained their Talk assessment.

This resource includes a broadsheet newspaper article about the rise of food delivery service ‘Just Eat’ and RUAE questions based on the language techniques used in the passage. Ideal for use with a National 5 or Higher class. Could be used as a homework activity.

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 encourages pupils to consider the theme of racism in this novel and analyse real life examples of racism in society.

This resource helps students to plan a presentation based on their work experience week.

This resource could be used in a class Critical Reading assessment.