A series of close reading activities which can be used to develop these important skills. Can be given as one off lessons, consolidating exercises or homework.

A series of fun exercises exploring love in Twelfth Night. Pupils examine relationships and create a personal ad for Orsino.

Questions and activities to facilitate knowledge and understanding of Act One of Twelfth Night.

A unit of work to help students write their own modern fairy tale.

A series of tasks and an essay plan for the play Kindertransport by Diane Samuels.

A series of resources for group work on Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.

A guided approach to writing a diary entry from the perspective of a Glasgow tenement child.

A very broken down, step by step approach to essay writing for those who struggle with structuring. I have included several examples here, including essay plans for Letter to Daniel and Animal Farm, which can be easily adapted.

Some worksheets for writing an essay on what students would put into Room 101.

A group task which teaches how to judge bias when finding sources for discursive writing.

A scheme of work to help with analysis and understanding of Assisi by Norman MacCaig.

A unit of work comprising tasks on chapters plus on character, theme etc. for S4/5 relating to Animal Farm. I used this in a National 5 class.

Various tasks relating to study of the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

A series of tasks looking at Tom Leonard's poetry, which is written in phonetic urban dialect.

A powerpoint that works with pupils to deal with homophobic language in schools.

Two PowerPoint presentations which guide pupils through how to answer Word Choice and Imagery questions for RUAE.

How to break down question types at National 5 RUAE.

A series of resources which aid the complete study of Letter to Daniel. These are supplemented by a booklet I didn’t create, but which can be found at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-letter-to-daniel-6330889.

Bits and pieces to supplement the teaching of the novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Not a full unit