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.

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.

This is a fun activity for KS2 and KS3 pupils to help them practice identifying differerent word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In this activity, all of the sentences are about Disney films. Pupils read the sentence and decide if the highlighted word is a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. They follow their answers to lead them through the maze. Depending upon ability, this activity should take pupils about 5-10 minutes to complete. It is ideal to be used as a starter, plenary or homework activity. Answers are included. I also have a Marvel version of this resource on my TES shop, along with lots of other teaching resources. If you’ve found this resource useful, please leave a review.

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

This is a fun activity for KS2 and KS3 pupils to help them practice identifying differerent word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In this activity, all of the sentences are about the Marvel superhero world. Pupils read the sentence and decide if the highlighted word is a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. They follow their answers to lead them through the maze. Depending upon ability, this activity should take pupils about 5-10 minutes to complete. It is ideal to be used as a starter, plenary or homework activity. Answers are included. I also have a Disney version of this resource in my TES shop, along with lots of other resources for teaching English. If you’ve found this resource useful, please leave a review.

Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, Chapters 14-17 Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: commas in lists, hyperbole

Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ chapter 18. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, cover lesson, homework or independent learning.

Blended teaching worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman. Can be used as a taught lesson, as homework, as a cover lesson, or for independent learning. Content: Boys Don’t Cry chapters 12 and 13, dialogue, speech punctuation, speech marks, speech tags, direct speech, inverted commas, summarising

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 26. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: metaphors extended metaphors readers’ responses to Aunt Jackie character roles Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Adam, before and after the attack Skimming Scanning 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.

Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 37. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: homophobia short tasks about chapter 37 testing: locating information; inference; language and structure; writing an IEEL paragraph 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.

Five blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 45 to 50 Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Questions Writing multiple-choice questions Types of narrative ending Predictions Features of a book review (inc. an example review) Writing a review of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ 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.

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.

Six GCSE ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ practice papers for EDQUAS, each with a table to scaffold response writing and an indicative content list for marking. Questions in this set explore the themes of parenting, friendship and family, and the characters of Adam, Tyler and Dante. Some extra resources are also included: One practice paper also includes examples of how to annotate the exam paper, and an example IEEL paragraph. Two practice papers also include a teacher feedback sheet. One practice paper also includes an annotated ‘what a good one looks like’ response (WAGOLL) For marking, use the EDUQAS GCSE English Literature post-1914 literature mark scheme. Please have a look at my TES shop for other Boys Don’t Cry and English resources, including a complete unit of work.

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

Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Fully differentiated task for grades 9-1. Students explore the meaning of the novel’s title. Contains links to online articles. 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 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.

Targets for different GCSE writing grades (component 2). Use these as posters or to stick into exercise books.

This transport word search is designed to increase the vocabulary of KS3 students. It features 50 transport-related words, with common ones such as ‘car’ and ‘road’ to much more difficult ones such as ‘biodiesel’ and ‘autonomous vehicle’. Students are encouraged to use a dictionary or the internet to find out what new vocabulary means. This is a free resource. If you’ve found it useful, please do check out my other resources and leave me a review.