A worksheet designed to be used for revising the analysis of similes and metaphors.

A PowerPoint designed to help pupils prepare for their SNSA - includes work on punctuation (commas, apostrophes etc.), clauses and various small tasks which test understanding. Can also be used as starter tasks.

Worksheets for teaching lists and rhetorical questions as part of RUAE/close reading. I used them with S1 and S2 classes, but they could be adapted for use with other levels.

A PowerPoint with quotes arranged by subject designed to support Nation 5 pupils this year. Each category has a quotation from Glasgow 5th March 1971 (since that's this year's poem) and two quotations from another poem.

Some resources designed to help support teaching The Polar Express. Includes a short PowerPoint and some worksheets.

Designed for teaching the 2001 film Shrek as a critical essay text. Includes a PowerPoint designed to take pupils through the essay as well as worksheets for use beforehand. Also includes a short group talking task which can be used as an extension task. Designed for use with a fairly low ability class, but could be adapted to be used with less support.

Creative writing resources designed to help pupils who are working from home or working with less support (these were made during the first lockdown). Includes a variety of worksheets which cover different aspects of creative writing (character, dialogue etc.) culminating in writing their own story.

A variety of resources designed to support the teaching of Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. Includes a PowerPoint, essay plans, example essays and th story itself. I used it to teach National 5 but it could be adapted for other levels.

A series of worksheets with fake blank Facebook pages for main characters in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice including Shylock and Portia. Great for an extension activity.

Resources designed to support the teaching of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful. Includes a PowerPoint, a write-on essay and WW1 propaganda posters.

Short class test, worth 20 marks, designed to test own words and word choice skills using short passages and simple questions.

A unit of work designed to teach the poem Camping Out by Vernon Scannell, working towards a critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint, the poem itself and a differentiated write-on version of the essay.

A short unit of work designed to teach the poem Nettles by Vernon Scannell, culminating in a short class test. Includes work on analysing metaphors.

Includes a PowerPoint designed to teach own words, word choice, imagery and sentence structure questions as well as two practice papers and some short tasks which can be used in a carousel.

A PowerPoint designed to support the teaching of the 2009 film Coraline.

Various resources designed to support the teaching of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Includes a PowerPoint and various worksheets and tasks.

Associated resources surrounding Guy Fawkes night. Includes historical sources and scripts for the class to hold a trial as to whether Guy Fawkes was set up or whether he was guilty. Great for a wee bit of fun in the run up to December. I used it with S1 but could easily be adapted for other levels.

Short guides on how to answer own words, word choice, sentence structure and imagery questions in RUAE. Designed for use with National 5 classes but can be adapted for use with other levels.

A PP and essay plan designed to teach the novel ‘MacB’ by Neil Arksey.

Resources designed to support the teaching of the 2001 film The Others and a related critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint (also included as a PDF file), worksheets, a talking task and a critical essay plan.