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.

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.

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.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 32, 33, 34 and 35. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: addresses form filling (registering Emma at a GP’s surgery) vocbulary-building (childcare) 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.

Two blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 36 Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: literary theory diversity depiction of the LGBTQ+ community in literature applying LGBTQ+ theory (queer theory) to a reading of chapter 36 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 script and powerpoint for a secondary school assembly for Pride Month. It was written to be student-led, with six speaking sections and some optional student dramatisations. It’s main content is: The history of Pride The Pride flag Celebrating diversity The importance of tolerance Ways to encourage an atmosphere of tolerance

This is a fun quiz of the school year, 2022-3 which is suitable for Years 7-11. A visually appealling end-of-year final lesson quiz that you can use with each of your classes. Can also be split into rounds to fill a whole week for form times. There are 60 questions in total (plus a tie-breaker), a printable answer sheet, and of course all the answers. You will get both a PDF version and adaptable PowerPoint version of this quiz. Tried and tested on my own classes, this quiz takes 50-55 minutes for teams to complete the quiz and mark each others’ answers. Round 1: In the News (multiple choice; current affairs events from each month of the last school year) Round 2: Song Lyrics (identify the song and artist; all 2022-3 UK chart toppers) Round 3: Films and Television (identify the film from its poster; identify the television show from its cast) Round 4: Social Media (multiple choice; trends, platforms and celebrities) Round 5: Sport (multiple choice; full range of sports from the last year) Round 6: Brands (guess the brand from the ‘zoomed in’ image) I’m trying to build up my tes shop so, if you enjoy this resourcce, I’d be really grateful for your reviews. You can follow my blog at wordywitterings.com

This worksheet requires no teacher input at all. It is suitable to be used for cover lessons, revision, homework, isolation or catch-up work etc. All the pupil needs is a copy of ‘An Inspector Calls’. What you get: two versions of the worksheet (including a version with plenty of scaffolding) varied self-guided tasks to assist revision of plot, character, and quotations enough independent tasks to last even the quickest pupils a full hour answer sheet (suitable for self-assessment or peer-assessment) both Word and PDF formats You may like to save some money by buying this worksheet in a bundle with similar worksheets for Acts one and three of ‘An Inspector Calls’. This bundle is available in the Wordy Witterings TES shop.

This worksheet requires no teacher input at all. It is suitable to be used for cover lessons, revision, homework, isolation or catch-up work etc. All the pupil needs is a copy of ‘An Inspector Calls’. What you get: two versions of the worksheet (including a version with plenty of scaffolding) varied self-guided tasks to assist revision of plot, character, and quotations enough independent tasks to last even the quickest pupils a full hour answer sheet (suitable for self-assessment or peer-assessment) both Word and PDF formats You may like to save some money by buying this worksheet in a bundle with similar worksheets for Acts two and three of ‘An Inspector Calls’. This bundle is available in the Wordy Witterings TES shop.

This worksheet requires no teacher input at all. It is suitable to be used for cover lessons, revision, homework, isolation or catch-up work etc. All the pupil needs is a copy of ‘An Inspector Calls’. What you get: two versions of the worksheet (including a version with plenty of scaffolding) varied self-guided tasks to assist revision of plot, character, and quotations enough independent tasks to last even the quickest pupils a full hour answer sheet (suitable for self-assessment or peer-assessment) both Word and PDF formats You may like to save some money by buying this worksheet in a bundle with similar worksheets for Acts One and Two of ‘An Inspector Calls’. This bundle is available in the Wordy Witterings TES shop.

This stand-alone, no-prep lesson is designed to encourage pupils to ‘aim higher’ at GCSE, moving pupils of all levels up towards the highest grades. You get: detailed lesson plan powerpoint (also as a PDF version) pupil resources: examples of grade 8/9 narrative, example of grade 4/5 narrative, exit ticket The lesson includes: individual, paired and group work tasks annotation optional: use of technology instead of paper copies (individual tablets) optional: use of drama to develop empathy (teacher in role)