Four blended learning worksheets, plus a teacher feedback sheet, for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 39 and 40. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Malorie Blackman’s Style Characters’ thoughts Characters’ feelings Planning to write a chapter from Josh’s point of view Self-assessment task Teacher feedback sheet 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a template for an information sheet, allowing you to provide key information about your class/department at the start of the school year. This is a fully-editable Publisher template in a range of six colour schemes. You will need to download the font I’ve used in order to use this resource. This is very simple to do and 100% free. I’ve included links and instructions about how to do this on the final page of the resource. Just type the information that you want your own class to know into the template. I’ve included one completed sheet as an example. **This is a free resource. If you find it useful, I’d really appreciate your review. ** Please check out my TES shop for other teaching resources.