These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the National Five Scottish Text. These resources focus on the poem Basking Shark. It includes a copy of the poem Resources included: PPT to take them through annotation Annotated poem Revision Tasks Scottish Text Practice including PPT MS for peer/self-assessment

These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the National Five Scottish Text. These resources focus on the poem Glasgow Sonnet #1 by Edwin Morgan. It includes a copy of the poem Resources included: PPT to take them through annotation Annotated poem Revision Tasks Scottish Text Practice including PPT MS for peer/self-assessment

Resources to help pupils study and develop their analysis skills of the play "Tally's Blood" This is aimed for National 5 pupils but could be adapted to suit other curriculum. Resources include: - Quote analysis and essay skills - Exploring relationships - Key scene

Unit of work for the novel Tribes by Catherine MacPhail. The unit uses class, pair and individual reading to explore the novel and has a range of activities to explore character and theme. There are revision resources as well and listening and Reading for UAE practices. There are also resources to help pupils write a critical essay.

Four passages based on the adventures of four of the doctors (Ninth to Twelfth) Each passage has a set of questions and get progessively more difficult with the Ninth Doctor being the easiest and Twelfth being the hardest.

These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the Higher Scottish Text. These resources focus on the poem Mrs Midas. It includes a copy of the poem Resources included: PPT to take them through annotation Annotated poem Revision Tasks Scottish Text Practice including PPT MS for peer/self-assessment (this includes questions on stanzas 1-6 and stanzas 7-11)

These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the National Five Scottish Text. These resources focus on the short story Dear Santa. It includes a copy of the short story The PPT and booklet has the following tasks; Summary of the text Study of two characters Exploring Theme Looking At Setting Inference Skills Practice Textual Analysis Finding Links PPT also includes answers for peer/self assessment Unit is designed for who may struggle with elements of the National 5 course and so takes them through the skills step by step.

Passage and questions based on a Guardian article on the refugee crisis facing migrants into Europe Pupils can practice IYOW, Link, Analysis and Evaluation questions. The marks are out of 25, based on the first passage and questions in the Higher paper. Resources include: • Passage and questions • Marking Scheme • Marking Scheme on PPT for peer/self assessment

Worksheets include: - Draw and label characters - Draw and label settings - Quote Bingo for Theme - Storyboarding Key Scene

Unit of work looking at the play As You Like It. It leads to the pupils working on a group project looking at making a film proposal about the film. There is questions on key scenes and analysis skills on each scene.

These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the National Five Scottish Text. These resources focus on the short story All That Glisters. It includes a copy of the short story The PPT and booklet has the following tasks; Summary of the text Study of two characters Exploring Theme Symbolism Inference Skills Practice Textual Analysis Finding Links PPT also includes answers for peer/self assessment Unit is designed for who may struggle with elements of the National 5 course and so takes them through the skills step by step.

These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the Higher Scottish Text. These resources focus on the poem Valentine. It includes a copy of the poem Resources included: PPT to take them through annotation Annotated poem Revision Tasks Scottish Text Practice including PPT MS for peer/self-assessment

These lessons are designed to help pupils to study the poetry of Norman MacCaig. (for the National 5 Scottish Text element of the course) These lessons look at: Intro Lesson looking at techniques used by Norman MacCaig How To Answer Scottish Text Questions Looking at Commonality Revision Booklet - create your own Copy of all poems

These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the National Five Scottish Text. These resources focus on the poem Trio by Edwin Morgan. It includes a copy of the poem Resources included: PPT to take them through annotation Annotated poem Revision Tasks Scottish Text Practice including PPT MS for peer/self-assessment

These resources are designed to help pupils study and prepare for the National Five Scottish Text. These resources focus on the poem Glasgow 5th March by Edwin Morgan. It includes a copy of the poem Resources included: PPT to take them through annotation Annotated poem Revision Tasks Scottish Text Practice including PPT MS for peer/self-assessment

Each PPT slide had a short paragraph or passage taken from a range of sources (fiction and non-fiction) Underneath each paragraph is a close reading style question. These are understanding or analysis based tasks looking at things such as word choice and sentence structure. Would be useful for a class working on Close Reading/Reading for UAE. Have been used as lesson starters of an extenstion activity for pupils.

Looking at a key Reading for UAE skills/Close Reading skill - word choice Resources include: - Looking at Nail Varnish names to analyse word choice - Looking at car names to analyse word choice - Connotations and shades of meaning - Analysing words used in passages

These are the resources needed to adapt a Play Your Cards Right Game so that when pupils play it they can talk about their books and reading habits. This resources includes: Play Your Cards Right Instructions Play Your Cards Right Questions - these are glued onto the cards You will need a physical copy of a Play Your Cards Right or large playing cards to make this game up.

These are the resources needed to adapt a Connect 4 Game so that when pupils play it they can talk about their books and reading habits. This resources includes: Connect 4 instructions Connect 4 Number Cards A-Z cards (two sets of numbers for each set of counters) - the front of the question cards Connect 4 Question Cards - these are the back of the question cards Counter Numbers - these should be stuck on the Connect 4 Counters You will need a physical copy of a Connect 4 game to make this game up.

These are the resources needed to adapt a Race To Base or Ludo Game so that when pupils play it they can talk about their books and reading habits. This resources includes: Race To Base Instructions Race To Base Question Cards - Front Race To Base Question Cards - Back You write the alphabet on the board for the cards to make sense You will need a physical copy of Race To Base or Ludo Game to use these resources