<p>An assembly to mark world music day, with copyright free images and audio clips, focusing on the positive effects of music on children’s wellbeing and mental health.</p>

<p>An assembly for upper primary and secondary to educate about the importance of recycling, using a focus on plastic bottles to illustrate the ideas.</p>

<p>An assembly for Insect Week (24th to 30th June), featuring an explanation of the initiative, guidance on what to do at home, and two short interactive quizzes.</p>

<p>A worksheet testing understanding of complex and compound sentences, and an exercise in finding conjunctions within them.</p>

<p>A resource comprising:</p> <ul> <li>a text about Chinese New Year</li> <li>vocabulary classification activity</li> <li>hints about decoding new vocabulary</li> <li>word / definition matching</li> <li>a true or false reading comprehension (with differentiation opportunities)</li> <li>creative activity based around the Chinese Zodiac</li> </ul>

<p>A comprehension passage, with questions, about China, designed for learners to practise their skills at reading for details. CEFR Level 1.</p>

<p>A handout explaining co-relative conjunctions and how to use them, followed by a worksheet to put understanding into practice.</p>

<p>A handout naming, picturing and describing the English punctuation marks, and explaining their uses in simple terms. Also, a simple guide to upper case and lower case letters, and when to use capital letters.</p>

<p>Assembly on adapting a growth mindset for whole school delivery. Features three real-life stories of overcoming closed mindsets (Adele, Thomas Edison and Malala), as well as practical tips for thinking more positively.</p>

<p>A3 poster outlining, using a flow chart visualisation, the strutcure of a strong discursive essay for folio work at Nat5 and Higher English.</p>

<p>A poster outlining, on a timeline, the main and most significant literary periods and movements.</p>

<p>A selection of 20 exercises in developing close reading skills, each one based on a short extract from a piece of fiction (exercises 1-10) or non-fiction (exercises 11-20), with questions for each extract. Also included are:</p> <ul> <li> <p>a summary of the diferent types of close reading / RUAE questions and what they require the reader to do (directly linked to the National 5 question types)</p> </li> <li> <p>a summary of common punctuation and what it is used for in a text.</p> </li> <li> <p>a summary of figures of speech, with definitions and examples.</p> </li> </ul> <p>Ideal for use as a classroom resource, or as a homework booklet or revision resource.</p>

<p>A Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation (RUAE), or close reading, exercise on an extract from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations”, with questions modelled around the National 5 RUAE questions and a full marking scheme.</p>

<p>A Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation (RUAE), or close reading, exercise on an extract from Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”, with a glossary, questions modelled around the National 5 RUAE questionsand a full marking scheme.</p>

<p>A Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation (RUAE), or close reading, exercise on an extract from Bill Bryson’s “Notes from a Small Island”, with questions modelled around the National 5 RUAE questions and a full marking scheme.</p>

<p>A Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation (RUAE), or close reading, exercise on an extract from Laurie Lee’s “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning”, with a glossary and questions modelled around the National 5 RUAE questions. Contains two resources: one pupil copy (text + glossary + questions) and one teacher copy (text + glossary + questions + full marking scheme).</p>

<p>A Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation (RUAE), or close reading, exercise on a longer non-fiction article “Green Travel by Cargo Ship”, by Will Vibert, with questions modelled around the National 5 RUAE questions and a full marking scheme.</p>

<p>A3 poster or writing mat (two sheets) with specific explainers and guidance for each of the different RUAE questions in a Nat5 or Higher English RUAE assessment. Each explainer includes exact guidance on how to answer the question types to maximise marks. A very valuabel resource for an English classroom.</p>

<p>A3 poster designed to walk pupils, step by step, through the process of writing a main body paragraph for a discursive essay. Particularly useful for Nat5 and Higher English folio work.</p>