Teaching Units – Association for Scottish Literature

Each Unit works through a large-scale text and provides assignments which can be given directly to students in the classroom. Experiences and Outcomes covered in the units are specified, as are continuous and final assessment opportunities. These Units are FREE to download – see the links below.

Bampots and Heroes

Prose Fiction Teaching Unit for BGE Levels 2 and 3 (314 KB)

The Hill of the Red Fox

Prose Fiction Teaching Unit for S1-S2 (240KB)

(Click here to watch Andrew Young’s talk on The Hill of the Red Fox plus other videos from the 2021 ASLS Schools Conference.)

‘The Mannie’ and ‘The Deil’

Prose Fiction Teaching Unit for Level 3
(End of BGE) (63 KB)

(Click here for the ASL free download of The Mannie & Ither Stories and here to watch James Robertson’s talk on Stories in Scots for S1–S3, plus other videos from the 2019 ASLS Schools Conference.)

Precious and the Mischief at Meerkat Brae

Prose Fiction Teaching Unit for Level 2
(Top Primary and Early Secondary) (463 KB)

(Click here to watch Matthew Fitt’s talk on Itchy Coo and Scots Hoose publications plus other videos from the 2021 ASLS Schools Conference.)

Precious and the Puggies

Prose Fiction Teaching Unit of Work for Level 2
(Upper Primary / Lower Secondary) (70 KB)

(Click here to watch Matthew Fitt’s talk on Itchy Coo and Scots Hoose publications plus other videos from the 2021 ASLS Schools Conference.)

Robert Burns’s ‘Tam o Shanter’

Teaching Unit for Upper Primary and BGE
(356 KB)

(Click here to watch Robert Crawford’s talk on The Poetry of Robert Burns plus other videos from the 2014 ASLS Schools Conference, and here to watch Matthew Fitt’s talk on Itchy Coo and Scots Hoose publications plus other videos from the 2021 ASLS Schools Conference.)

Scott in Schools

Poetry Teaching Unit for Level 2

The Walter Scott toolkit for teachers and their pupils in upper primary and lower secondary schools – produced by the Walter Scott Research Centre, University of Aberdeen