Simple lesson starters based on language work - each PPT has a short task that can be completed and then the answers on the following slide for pupils to self or peer mark. These lesson starters include: - Reading for Understanding - Speech Marks - Adverbs - Pronouns - Types of Words and fifteen other lesson starters

Simple lesson starters based on language work - each PPT has a short task that can be completed and then the answers on the following slide for pupils to self or peer mark. These lesson starters include: - Using Apostrophes - Full Stops and Capitals - Meanings of Words - Abbreviations - Question Marks and fifteen other lesson starters

Six PowerPoints that will take pupils through annotation of the Scottish Text Duffy poems - suitable for National 5 or Higher.

Scaffolded unit that explores four poems with the theme of loss: - My Busconductor - Roger McGough - The Identification - Roger McGough - Sorting Through - Liz Lochhead - Mid Term Break - Seamus Heaney The lessons go from class work-group work-paired work and individual work for each poem. There is also workbooklets to extend the work for two of the poems.

Bank of resources and Powerpoints for Clare Bevan's poem "He and She" Can be used for an S1/2 class Resources include: - Copy of poem - Annotation guide - Critical Essay - Textual Analysis/Close Reading Questions - Diary Writing Task

A unit to help pupil develop personal writing skills based on The Scottish Book Trust Days Like This project - encouraging people to write about a significant day in their life. Includes the poem Days by Brian Moses, the prose text The Day the World Failed to End by Mark Palmer and advice from Irvine Welsh.

Advent calender style lesson starters. Pupils choose a number at random and class complete a creative language based task. Most can be done with no preparation but worksheets are attached for the tasks in which they are needed.