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Back to School - Year 7 English first week lessons
This a fully-planned and fully-resourced first week of lessons for your new Year 7 English group.
It is designed to allow for very informal baseline assessments in speaking and listening, reading and writing. By the end of this first week, you’ll have got to know your class and had the chance to see what they can do in the three main areas of English.
Lesson one: Speaking and Listening
Simple design and presentation activity to allow pupils to introduce themselves.
Lesson two: Writing
The pack provides printable writing prompts to generate ideas for an first piece of narrative writing.
Lesson three: Reading
Four classroom reading ‘stations’ on the theme of travel. Each station uses an interesting activity based on a different reading skill: locating information, inference, summary and vocabulary. Tasks are multiple choice, true/false, wordsearch and summary.
This section has been updated - Sept 2023
What you get in the pack:
3 detailed lesson plans
Printable pack of 48 narrative writing prompts
Printable pack of 4 reading activites
Printable answer sheets for the reading activity
Skills tick lists for speaking and listening, reading and writing
KS2 to KS3 Drama Transition Lesson
This is a lesson plan for a no-prep KS2 to KS3 transition lesson.
Great for taster days or the first drama lesson in Year 7.
No need for any materials or printed resources.
The lesson should take approximately 50-60 minutes.
Year 7 Myths and Legends Unit of Work
Complete Year 7 Myths and Legends Unit of Work
Bring the magic of myths and legends to life with this comprehensive, fully-editable scheme of work tailored for Year 7 students.
This extensive bundle includes everything you need to deliver an engaging and dynamic unit, over 18 lessons.
What’s included in this huge bundle:
PowerPoint Presentation: Nearly 200 attractively presented slides that guide you through each lesson, complete with vibrant visuals and structured content.
Medium-Term Planning: Detailed plans to help you navigate through the unit, ensuring all learning objectives are met.
Knowledge Organiser: A handy resource summarizing key concepts, characters, and vocabulary related to myths and legends.
Differentiated Resources: A variety of materials that cater to different learning levels, ensuring that every student can access and engage with the content.
Interactive Activities: Start your lessons with varied and interesting recall activities, including quizes, games, videos, and even a fun Blooket to reinforce learning in an interactive way.
Assessments: This scheme includes assessments in reading, writing, and speaking - retelling a classical myth in a modern setting, inferring a character’s feelings, and presenting their stories to the class.
Texts Covered:
Modern adaptations of myths and legends
Excerpts from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (chapter not included)
A poem by Carol Ann Duffy
Non-fiction texts from websites
Translations from The Odyssey
Each lesson is designed not only to teach students about the fascinating world of myths and legends but also to develop their analytical, creative, and presentation skills.
Boys Don't Cry - Complete Unit of Work and all resources for Eduqas GCSE English Literature
This pack contains everything you need to teach ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature.
You will get a 34-lesson scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, and all of the resources you need to deliver it.
This scheme of work uses a ‘blended learning’ approach, covering skills for both GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature. It incorporates the whole-class reading of the novel, activities on each chapter, non-fiction writing, narrative writing, literary and linguistic devices, punctuation and grammar. It also incorporates interactive and kinaesthetic revision activities.
In this HUGE bundle, you will get ALL of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ resources:
Scheme of work (medium-term plan)
Vocabulary slides to support reading in class or at home
Worksheets for each chapter
6 practice exam papers with support grids and suggestions for content of responses
WAGOLL examples
Prompts for quick-writes and discussions
Lesson plan and resources: Writing IEEL paragraphs
Lesson plan and resources: Gender
2 colour-by-numbers revision sheets
Who said that? card sort
Chapter 10 and 11 maze
Author’s techniques self-marking activity
Cover lesson about Malorie Blackman
Exploring the title
Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare's Techniques Self-marking Activity
This is an interactive, self-marking activity for engaging pupils with ten of the main** author techniques ** in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
Students are given a riddle and must match each definition to a choice of techniques in order to solve it. A word bank is provided on the activity. This activity will help to engage your students with the names, definitions and spellings of key subject terminology for GCSE English Literature.
Self-marking - if the student’s screen spells out the whole word, they’ve chosen all of the terms correctly! Great to use as a starter, plenary, revision or homework activity. Can be used at any point of teaching the play, or at the pre-reading stage, as no characters or events from the novel are featured in this activity.
Suitable for Year 7-11. This activity will take students between 5 and 10 minutes to complete.
Please note: This is a Microsoft Excel activity. Students will need access to Excel to be able to use this.
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Macbeth Quotation Card Sort
Card sort game:
Match the quotation from Macbeth to the character who said it
Revision activity
Features 44 quotations
Includes answers
Attractively presented using a dyslexia-friendly font
Editable resource (you get both PDF and editable PowerPoint versions of the cards)
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'Lord of the Flies' Eduqas GCSE Practice Papers - Bundle 1
6 x ‘Lord of the Flies’ practice papers for Eduqas GCSE English Literature component 2.
Bundle 1. Question topics are: Ralph, Piggy, Evil, Fear, Responsibility and Leadership.
'A Christmas Carol' GCSE Eduqas practice papers
4 x Eduqas GCSE English Literature practice papers for ‘A Christmas Carol’.
Lord of the Flies Vocabulary
All the tricky vocabulary from Lord of the Flies in one PowerPoint.
Support all levels of reader with these clear vocabulary slides featuring photographs and flat icons to aid understanding. These can be displayed on a board or on pupil devices as your read together in lessons, or used for pupils reading the novel at home. Can be used for pupils to annotate unfamiliar words in their copy of the novel as a pre-reading activity.
An absolute game-changer if you find yourself stopping to explain words as you read aloud to the class.
I’ve used a dyslexia-friendly font and background on these slides.
70 slides in total.
Malorie Blackman Cover Lesson Worksheet
Three sheets of work all about Malorie Blackman. Designed to be used as a stand-alone cover lesson, but could also be used as homework or to provide context when studying one of Blackman’s novels.
Designed to be suitable for KS3 or KS4 English. Enough work here to last even the quickest pupils a whole lesson. Application task is differentiated.
Answers are included.
Range of tasks:
Information retrieval (read the information about Malorie Blackman and find the answers).
Books and Quotes: Match the summary of four Blackman novels to a quotation from each one.
Reflection: Write about the appeal of Blackman’s books. Write questions for an interview with the author.
Application: Create a story plan based on Blackman’s themes. Differentiated as bronze, silver and gold tasks.
Boys Don't Cry ch 5 and 6 worksheets
Worksheets to accompany reading chapters 5 and 6 of Boys Don’t Cry.
Chapter 5 covers the seven types of plot and a ‘role on the wall’ for Dante’s character.
Chapter 6 covers similes, character attitudes, annotation of a question, annotation of an extract, how to structure a literature response IEEL paragraph.
Roald Dahl Reading Comprehension Maze
Engage your pupils in a Roald Dahl reading comprehension with this fun maze. Pupils read a brief biography of Roald Dahl and his work, then track their way through a maze by choosing the correct answer to each question. Perfect for Roald Dahl Day!
This resource is designed for KS2 pupils and has a reading age of approximately 9. The reading material is approximately 300 words in length.
If you enjoy using this resource, please leave me a review.
I have lots of English teaching resources on my TES shop, including more fun mazes: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/WordyWitterings
Lively Writing Bundle
If you’re looking for a sure-fire way to raise your students’ GCSE English Language grades, teach them how to write in a lively style.
This bundle features a knowledge organiser for explicitly teaching how to write in a lively style, as well as three model responses to past paper tasks and lists of their features.
The knowledge organiser features:
features of lively writing with definitions
relevant parts from EDUQAS GCSE English Language, component 2, section B success criteria for bands 5, 3 and 1 to help students focus on the skills being taught
past paper questions
I am an EDUQAS examiner for GCSE English Language component 2 and an English teacher with over 20 years experience.
Halloween Quiz
This is a fun Halloween-themed quiz which is suitable to be used in the classroom.
The categories are:
Round 1 - Pop music
Round 2 - Guess the celebrity (picutre round - they are all dressed up in Halloween costumes)
Round 3 - Films
Round 4 - Trick or Treat (Halloween food and games)
Round 5 - Anagrams
Round 6 - Origins
6 rounds of 10 questions each
5 rounds are multiple choice
Tie-breaker question
Range of question difficulty
All answers included at the end of the powerpoint
Absolutely nothing for you to do - all you need is paper and pens.
This quiz has been written for KS3 and KS4 and will take an hour including marking.
Boys Don't Cry Chapter 19 worksheets
Worksheets for Boys Don’t Cry, chapter 19.
Suitable for a teacher-led lesson, cover lesson, homework or independent learning.
Part of a series of blended learning worksheets for this GCSE novel.
Boys Don't Cry Chapter 19
Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ chapter 19.
This resource may be used for a teacher-led lesson, cover lessons, homework or independent learning.
'Boys Don't Cry' chapter 22 worksheets
Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 22.
Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning.
Content includes: inference, annotating an extract from chapter 22, IEEL paragraphs,
Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.
Romeo and Juliet Quotations Card Sort
Card sort game:
Match the quotation from Romeo and Juliet to the character who said it
Revision activity
Features 44 quotations
Includes answers
Attractively presented using a dyslexia-friendly font
Editable resource (you get both PDF and editable PowerPoint versions of the cards)
Please check out my TES shop for more English teaching resources.
'Boys Don't Cry' GCSE Scheme of Work
A 34-lesson scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman at GCSE.
This scheme of work uses a ‘blended learning’ approach, covering skills for both GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature.
It incorporates whole-class reading of the novel, activities on each chapter, non-fiction writing, narrative writing, literary and linguistic devices, punctuation and grammar. It also incorporates interactive and kinaesthetic revision activities.
All accompanying resources are available in my TES shop: Wordy Witterings.
Boys Don't Cry Chapters 2, 3 & 4 Worksheet
Worksheet to accompany chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman.
Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning.
Covers: metaphors, literal meanings, minor sentences, simple sentences
Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.