National 5 Scottish Set Text poem by Jackie Kay.
These resources include pre-reading activities, annotations, understanding questions, exam style questions with a past paper and marking scheme made by myself that follows the SQA style of questioning.
Vast PowerPoint unit of a six week unit covering persuasive writing, speaking and researching and finally debating. This unit includes a range of innovative resources and AifL strategies. Included in this bundle:
PowerPoint (143 slides)
Persuasive writing examples for students
Checklist for peer and self assessment
Media text for National 5 class, could be used for Higher students too.
This pack includes:
two PowerPoints - one should be printed as a booklet for students,
the second PowerPoint introduces students to media techniques and incorporates this into the viewing of the text.
Worksheets and grids for analysing scenes.
Exemplar introduction and conclusion.
This is a fun Media Unit that teaches students about media techniques and camera angles and shots, culminating in students creating their own Superhero.
Media Unit including 100 Slide PowerPoint with quizzes, tasks and terminology. Also included is another powerPoint with only a media quiz, character pictures to print, response prompts during the movie, media terms and task worksheet, storyboard, superhero worksheet and model worksheet to show students as an exemplar.
This unit of works introduces learners to figurative language, through definition, and song lyrics, the resources are innovative, creative, engaging, and effective.
Included is:
a detailed PP (introducing figurative language, implicit and explicit language, poem with annotations, close reading questions pertaining to poem.
a copy of the poem and the song chosen to be studied.
This detailed PowerPoint includes ‘own words’ questions and ‘word choice’ questions, introducing students to connotations and denotations.
This PowerPoint includes around five or six lessons of work, including differentiated slides that can be printed off for some students who struggle with the work.
This unit covers skills required in personal and reflective writing, including figurative language, implicit language, use of senses and a task worksheet for final essay.
PowerPoint for the short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
This covers the context of the story: Victorian Era, quiz, essay planning and model paragraphs. This is a fully comprehensive unit of work for senior pupils.
PowerPoint teaching formula and revision RUAE/Close Reading questions for Understanding:
-Own Words Questions
Context Questions
Link Questions
The PowerPoint also contains a breakdown of how to answer and a model answer, and includes answers for this.
There are also two worksheets, to follow on from this, one on own words questions and the other for context and link questions.
This is around a weeks worth of Close Reading work.
PowerPoint for the story ‘All That Glisters’ by Anne Donovan. This includes:
Key quotations
Themes
Symbolism
Characterisation
Narrative Style
There is also a second PowerPoint that looks at answering the 8 Mark Question for the Scottish Text part of the Scottish Exam. This includes a model answer, structure and exemplar questions.
PowerPoint, homelearning booklet/homework booklet. 2 x essay plans for different themes, theme tracker and 2 x reading comprehension/RUAE activities for chapters. This is a fully comprehensive unit of work for the novel ‘The Woman in Black’.
A powerpoint teaching camera angles and camera shots, followed by quizzes for each. There is also a few other worksheets, and a booklet for students to record their notes on.
*Resource bundle includes PowerPoint and Textual Analysis questions for National 5 examination prep, and culminating in essay writing practice. The textual analysis can be used as practice for curriculums other than Scottish - I used this resource with a hard working - mixed ability S3 as preparation for S4. I have also included an essay planning sheet *
Unit of work for the novel Clap When You Land by Elizabath Acevedo. Novel looks at themes of grief and sisterhood. Unit includes 6 weeks worth of work and essay support.
I’ve created a 53 page revision booklet for the 4 Donovan stories:
‘All that Glisters’
‘Dear Santa’
‘Away in a Manger’
‘Hieroglyphics’
Some key content to help students revise are:
Stem Sentencing and Quizzing for each story
Recall and Retrieval (Mild/Medium/Hot)
Assessment practice with model answers and question unpacking
Extra 8-mark question practice.