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 includes a worked example of an 8 mark Scottish Text question. There are opportunities for students to copy examples/ structural plans and to complete independent tasks.

This resource is an activity that includes point statements and quotations about the changing character of Lady Macbeth for students to analyse.

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

This power point will provide a structure and example method for answering the Scottish Text ten mark question in the Scottish Higher Critical reading exam paper.

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.

This resource includes a very detailed plan that tackles a question on KEY SCENE. It was developed in order to support pupils sitting Higher/ National 6 English. This plan will help students to produce an answer in the DRAMA section of the CRITICAL READING paper in the exam. It includes- key quotations, techniques used by Williams and support notes. This resource successfully improved the standard of Critical Essay marks in my class.

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 lots of examples of analysis questions that can be used with National 5 or Higher English classes when working on Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluating (RUAE). The questions have been adapted from prior Intermediate 2 examinations and prelim exams. This booklet is an excellent homework/ revision tool.

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 worksheet includes: *How to structure an answer on Tone *ATone bank Tone questions Ideal for practising this difficult exam question with National 5 or Higher students.

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.

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