Includes a PP designed to teach different questions (own words, word choice, sentence structure, tone and the final question) as well as supplementary materials to test pupils’ understanding of what they’ve been taught. Includes practice materials for the final question as well as full practice papers.

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.

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

A short unit of work designed to support the teaching of Home Alone 2 and a related critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint and three differentiated essay plans.

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 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 short unit of work designed to support the teaching of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and a related critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint and three differentiated essay plans.

Some resources designed to help support teaching The Polar Express. Includes a short PowerPoint and some worksheets.

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.

A PowerPoint designed to support the teaching of the 2009 film Coraline.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.