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.

This adaptation of the National Geographic article explores the history of Guy Fawkes. Questions encourage students to identify and analyse language techniques and summarise chunks of the article. Ideal for use when teaching RUAE skills or for a homework/ extension task.

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 ‘The Price of Bacon’. It can be projected onto the board to allow for self/ peer assessment of the passage.

This resource was designed to be used with a Higher class and will result in a Critical Essay that tackles the importance of SETTING in the play. The resource includes a Higher level exam question, a summary of when SETTING played a vital role in the text and a ‘skeleton plan’ for structuring a critical essay that deals with setting. Ideal for use with: Higher/ National 6 GCSE AS Level A Level This resource will offer scaffolding for Critical Essay writing.

This resource includes a broadsheet newspaper article with certain techniques underlined. It requires pupils to identify the techniques and explain their effect. Perfect for use with National 5 or Higher. The article is titled ‘A touch of the macabre’. Includes a marking scheme with possible answers. I used this for RUAE/ Close Reading practise with a Higher class- ideal homework activity that can be self/ peer assessed using the marking scheme.

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 included an annotates ‘A’ example of a critical essay on this piece of prose non-fiction by George Orwell. Ideal to be used as an exemplar with a Higher or string National 5 class in order to teach detailed analysis.

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.