This is a high quality critical response to the question: Write about a play you have recently read which contains a flawed character who ultimately gains your admiration. There is also a task that encourages students to annotate this model essay and find examples of literary techniques/ analysis and links to the essay question.

This scheme of work includes two pieces of literature- ‘Brooklyn Cop’ and ‘On the Sidewalk Bleeding’. It helps pupils to complete activities on these texts including a Critical Essay and a piece of Creative Writing. This resource is aimed at KS3 pupils but could also be used with National 4.

This resource looks at a section of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - Scrooge’s Old Love- and uses six effective reading strategies (Prior knowledge, Metalinguistics, Visualisation, Main Ideas, Summarising, Inference) to help pupils to understand the language and style of Dickens work. The resource can also be used to draw comparisons between the book and the Disney Film. This resource has been created in conjunction with the North Lanarkshire Active Literacy steps.

This pack includes stimulus pictures that require the learner to consider sensory responses.

This resource aims to help pupils complete personal writing about how they spend their Christmas. It involves detailed success criteria and example paragraphs.

This resource offers a detailed structure/ plan for writing a critical essay on ‘The Test’ by Angelica Gibbs. The Question focuses on CHARACTERISATION.

This resource will help pupils to acces the poem ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poem. It also includes the structure/ plan for a Critical Evaluation of the poem using PEER paragraphs. Ideal for use with BGE classes S1-S3 Year 7-9 classes Could also be used with National 5/ GCSE classes

In this booklet you will find a full set of course notes for National 5 English. This includes: Study of prose text ‘The Necklace’ (Key quotations & model Essay) Study of poem ‘Mid-Term Break’ (Poem & model essay)

This resource includes a full exam made in the style of the Higher Set Scottish Texts Paper. This can be used as a prelim or mock exam and the marking scheme is included. It focuses on the moment in the play where Phil is fired from the slab room.

This resource includes example 8 mark questions and a worked answer. It also includes questions that can be assigned as homework. Ideal for National 5 students who are studying Edwin Morgan poetry.