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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.

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

A PowerPoint designed to teach own words, word choice, imagery and sentence structure skills. Includes short passages and questions that can be worked on as a class or individually. Also includes worksheets to allow pupils further practice and hallway tasks for a bit of fun.

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

A PowerPoint designed to teach Theresa Breslin’s Divided City. I used it for a lower set S3 but it could be adapted for other levels.

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.

A variety of starter tasks in a PowerPoint - includes riddles, grammar work, short writing stimuli and more.

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 unit of work designed to support BGE classes with writing a scary story about a haunted house. Includes a PowerPoint and some differentiated paragraph writing worksheets.

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.

A PowerPoint and basic essay plan to help guide pupils through writing a basic discursive essay. Also includes some other worksheets for extra help if necessary. Designed for use with a National 5 class, but can be adapted for use with other levels.

Some RUAE/close reading resources based around Roald Dahl extracts. Covers word choice, imagery and own words with some resources on sentence structure. Includes a PowerPoint and worksheets for both practising and testing.

A unit of work designed to teach Alfred Noyes’s The Highwayman, culminating in a critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint, the poem itself, a short task on similes and metaphors, a wanted poster and storyboard for extension activities, a critical essay plan and a write-on critical 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.

A unit of work designed to teach Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est and Simon Armitage’s Remains. Includes a PowerPoint teaching both poems, a PowerPoint with an annotated version of Remains and an AVU-type comparative essay write-on sheet. Also contains Critical Reading/TA-type assessments.

A short unit of work designed to teach Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney, culminating in a textual analysis test (differentiated for different levels). Also contains one practice assessment.

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 unit of work designed to teach Scots poetry. The poems included are Shug the Claw by Gerry Cambridge, 6 O’clock News by Tom Leonard, A Dug, A Dug by Billy Keys and Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket by Margaret Hamilton. The unit works up to writing a newspaper article in Scots. Also includes a short Scots word quiz.