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.

Resources designed to support the teaching of the 2001 film The Others and a related critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint (also included as a PDF file), worksheets, a talking task and a critical essay plan.

Seven passages and questions on N5-level skills such as effective introduction and conclusion, own words, word choice, imagery, sentence structure and writer’s language.

Worksheets designed to help teach pupils to answer ‘in your own words’ questions. I used them with my National 4 class but could be used at any level to teach the skill.

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.

This is a PP unit designed to teach Theresa Breslin’s novel Whispers in the Graveyard. It also includes essay plans. I used this unit with a mixed ability S1 class but it could easily be adapted for other levels.

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 unit of work on the novel Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick. Also includes a simple essay plan. I used this with an S1 Literacy class but it could easily be adapted for other levels.

A unit of work on Catherine MacPhail’s dyslexia-friendly novel The Evil Within. Focuses on literacy strategies. Includes a PP, a workbook and an essay scaffold. I used it with an ASN S2 class but could be adapted for other levels.

Resources designed to support teaching the poem Seagulls by Brian McCabe. Includes a PowerPoint, the poem and some worksheets.

A PowerPoint, essay plan and various other worksheets designed to support the teaching of the film The Nightmare Before Christmas.

This is a PowerPoint and associated worksheets for teaching Ann Marie Di Mambro’s play Tally’s Blood as a Scottish Set Text for National 5 English. The PowerPoint also includes teaching the 8 mark question. Also includes a collection of 6 SST practices, including one without an 8 mark question and one with an extra 8 mark question.

A PowerPoint and critical essay plan designed to support the teaching of The Play of Room 13, dramatised by Joe Standerline, original novel written by Robert Swindells.

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.

Three worksheets with questions and links to various short TED talks. I used these with National 4 in the run up to their listening assessment.

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 worksheet designed to be used for revising the analysis of similes and metaphors.

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.

Worksheets for teaching lists and rhetorical questions as part of RUAE/close reading. I used them with S1 and S2 classes, but they could be adapted for use with other levels.