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. If you have found this resource useful, please leave me a positive review and take a look at my other English teaching resources in my TES shop.

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) Please check out my TES shop for more English teaching resources. wordywitterings.com

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.

This pack contains: a lesson plan with a range of activities to choose from an extract from a modern novel guided worksheets to help students to understand how to approach this type of question The extract is from ‘The Universe versus Alex Woods’ by Gavin Extence, and the 10-mark question is ‘How does the writer capture the reader’s interest?’ The worksheets guide students through how to: identify the key words in a question annotate an extract for implicit information discuss the use of descriptive techniques structure their full response The guided worksheets are extremely detailed and may be used for cover lessons, homework and remote learning.

4 x Eduqas GCSE English Literature practice papers for ‘A Christmas Carol’.

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.

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.

Three worksheets based on chapters 10 and 11 of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman. You get 3 PDF worksheets. Activities include: True or False maze based on chapters 10 and 11 (answers included) Explanations about the differences between writing to advise and writing to instruct Close reading exercise Writing exercise Challenge task for the most able students I’ve designed these activities as part of a blended learning approach to a first reading of this GCSE text with a mixed ability Year 9 group. These worksheets would also suit independent learning or homework tasks.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Blended learning worksheets to support the study of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ at GCSE. These worksheets are for chapters 20 and 21. Suitbable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: antonyms, allusion, character of Josh. Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete scheme of work and resource bundle, which may be found on my TES shop.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 25. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: vocabulary building: emotions identifying character emotions in an extract from chapter 25 Dante and Emma’s relationship structuring an exam response summarising Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 23 and 24. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: parenthesis parenthetic commas brackets dashes an author’s style writing about Malorie Blackman’s style of writing Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

Two blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, Chapters 27 and 28. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Structural features Malorie Blackman video Writing interview responses as Malorie Blackman 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.

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.