Summer Shop
Active teacher of English within a Scottish school. Experience in primary, secondary and SEN schools. Current GCSE and SQA marker. I always aim to create thorough, creative and engaging resources to support teaching and learning.
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Active teacher of English within a Scottish school. Experience in primary, secondary and SEN schools. Current GCSE and SQA marker. I always aim to create thorough, creative and engaging resources to support teaching and learning.
National 5 RUAE Word Choice Questions
Worksheet and answers for National 5 RUAE Word Choice questions. The worksheet consists of 8 questions worth 26 marks in total. Answer sheet includes a wide selection of possible answers.
National Five RUAE Word Choice PowerPoint
This PowerPoint takes students through the use of word choice in National 5 RUAE. Formulas and example questions are provided to assist students in making connections between words and their associations. The PowerPoint starts with basic connotations of words and moves onto phrases within paragraph. Extension task provided at the end and best paired with the Word Choice worksheet.
N5/Higher In Your Own Words Practice
Suitable for both Higher and National 5, this resource takes pupils through how to answer ‘in your own words’ questions. The four page worksheets have four separate tasks ascending in difficulty.
N5 / Higher Link PowerPoint and Questions
This resource includes a PowerPoint taking students through the steps necessary to answer link questions in National 5 and Higher English RUAE papers. It includes formulas, a worked exemplar and then a question students can answer independently.
Also included is a document with 10 individual link questions for students to independently practice their linking skills.
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Nat 5/Higher MacCaig Revision - Retrieval Practice
Using retrieval practice techniques, this bundle provides revision for recalling quotations and analysis for all 6 of Norman MacCaig’s exam poems in National 5 and Higher English.
Creating a Character - Show, Don't Tell
PowerPoint included is used for a single lesson aimed at getting students to use the ‘Show - Don’t Tell’ technique when creating and describing characters. This focuses on the use of verbs, adverbs, similes, and metaphors.
The worksheet included has a character template that will allow students to create a character. This focuses on physical descriptions, personality traits and strengths/weaknesses.
Nat 5 English Context Questions - Vocab from 2022 exam.
Taking some of the more challenging vocab from the 2022 National 5 English RUAE, I have created context questions for pupils to answer to help them expand their vocabulary and practice their understanding skills.
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National 5 RUAE Understanding Questions
This bundle contains RUAE understanding questions. The first resource contains Context questions based on the vocab from the 2022 exam, next is a series of Own Word questions and tasks. It then contains Link questions to practice the skills needed for understanding questions. Lastly, it has a resource on summarising questions. Therefore, this covers all question types for Understanding questions within the RUAE exam.
RUAE - Context PowerPoint - National 5/Higher
This PowerPoint introduces pupils to context questions in RUAE papers. It discusses what a context question is, the formula for answering one, worked examples to assist in answering and finally some examples for pupils to work through on their own.
Best paired with the context vocab sheet.
N5 Summarising Question
This resource contains a passage that students have to summarise in their own words.
Halloween Workbook Pack
This 8 page resource includes:
Acrostic Poem Making
Designing Your Own Pumpkin
I Spy and Count
Potion Colouring Pack
Spooky Wordsearch
Everything required for fun and interactive halloween activities that include literacy and numeracy worksheets.
Creative Writing Prompt / Starters
This powerpoint includes 20 different creative writing prompts for classes. 10 are part of short 200 word challenges with smaller tasks that encourage students to use ambitious vocabulary and imagery and 10 are open ended prompts to allow for creative freedom.
These are perfect for BGE classes and creative folio prompts for national 5 and higher classes. Also, suitable for year 7 to year 9 or grades 6 - 9 USA.
Norman MacCaig Poetry N5/H Give Me Three
Using the retrieval practice technique ‘Give Me Three’, this resource aims to help learners recall both quotations and analysis from all 6 MacCaig poems used in the National 5 and Higher Exams.
Homophones Practice Worksheets
The first worksheet focuses on the differences between there, their and they’re in sentences. The second worksheet then provides questions using various other homophones. There is a total of 37 different fill in the blank questions over the two worksheets.
Homophones PowerPoint - There, Their & They're
This PowerPoint takes pupils through the use of homophones using there, their and they’re. Practice questions are provided at the end.
9 Letter Grid Starters - Literacy Game
PowerPoint with 20 starter lessons for 10 - 18 year olds. These are 9 letter word grids that prompt students to find the one 9 letter words and as many other words as they can before the timer runs out. Words beome more challenging as the PowerPoint goes on.
Webquest for Horror Novel
This is a single sheet resource that encourages students to use digital literacy skills to research their favourite horror novel and recreate the front cover.
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Homophones
This bundle includes a PowerPoint that explores what homophones are and gives examples of when to use the correct ones.
The worksheet then explores a multitude of different homophones and prompts students to fill in the correct ones on the worksheet.
Finally, there is a homophone crossword complete with answers.
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RUAE Context Bundle National 5/Higher
This bundle includes a powerpoint exploring context questions with formulas on how to answer these questions. Exemplars are given to support.
The context worksheet includes various examples of context questions based upon vocabulary from the 2022 National 5 RUAE exam.
