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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.
How does the writer...? Guided question response
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.
Transport Word Search
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.
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Boys Don't Cry - chapters 10 and 11 worksheets
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.
Boys Don't Cry - Worksheets for chapters 7, 8 and 9
These worksheets support the teaching of Boys Don’t Cry, chapters 7, 8 and 9, as a GCSE text.
These sheets cover:
difficult vocabulary from these chapters
identifying features of the novel’s structure
comparative and contrasting connectives
Comparing and Contrasting the characters of Dante and Adam
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.
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Word Class Maze - Disney Version
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.
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Word Class Maze - Marvel Version
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.
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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
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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Boys Don't Cry: Author's Techniques Self-marking Activity
This is an interactive, self-marking activity for engaging pupils with ten of the main** author techniques **in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman.
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 novel, or at the pre-reading stage, as no characters or events from the novel are featured in this activity. I found that this activity took my Year 9s about 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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*Answer: LITERATURE
protagonist 2. simile 3. exclamation 4. foreshadowing
linear structure 6. dramatic irony 7. parallels 8. internal monologue
stock phrases 10. dual narrative*
Boys Don't Cry GCSE practice papers (Set 2)
SET 2
Three GCSE ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ practice papers for EDUQAS, each with a table to support response writing and an indicative content list for marking.
Questions in this set explore Dante’s change, Tyler, and Adam.
For marking, use the EDUQAS GCSE English Literature post-1914 literature mark scheme (page 4): https://pastpapers.download.wjec.co.uk/S22/s22-C722U10-B-ms.pdf
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Back to School: Information Sheet Template
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. **
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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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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)
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Boys Don't Cry - GENDER - No prep lesson
This is a ready-to-go lesson on the theme of gender in Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman. No preparation needed - you don’t even need print anything out!
This lesson features lots of discussion, including opportunities to explicitly teach the skills required to organise a group productively and listen effectively to others’ ideas. Differentiated to include support for less able students, extension tasks for early finishers, and challenge tasks for more able students. Includes suggested homework tasks. Fully editable. Suitable for GCSE English Literature (EDUQAS or EDEXCEL).
You will receive:
a full lesson plan, including teacher’s notes and answers (both Word and PDF)
accompanying PowerPoint (both PPT and PDF)
Learning objectives:
• To understand the terms ‘gender stereotype’ and ‘masculinity’.
• To apply these terms to characters in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’.
National Curriculum Links:
Understand and critically evaluate texts through
• identifying and interpreting themes, ideas and information.
Speak confidently, audibly and effectively including through
• working effectively in groups of different sizes and taking on required roles, including leading and managing discussions, involving others productively, reviewing and summarising, and contributing to meeting goals/deadlines
• listening to and building on the contributions of others, asking questions to clarify and inform, and challenging courteously when necessary
Resources needed:
• Essential: copies of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman
• Recommended: the PowerPoint accompanying this lesson plan
• If available: ipads/tablets/laptops, whiteboards, large sheets of paper, felt pens
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Boys Don't Cry Quotation Card Sort
Card sort game:
Match the quotation from Boys Don’t Cry to the character who said it
Revision activity
Features 40 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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Boys Don't Cry lesson - IEEL paragraphs
In this complete Year 9 or 10 lesson, pupils will learn how to write an IEEL paragraph which is the building-block of GCSE English Literature essays.
This stand-alone lesson fits into my series of lessons and resources on ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman, focusing on chapters 8 and 9.
This is a complete lesson with all the resources:
powerpoint
differentiated worksheets
example EDUQAS GCSE English Literature exam question
example paragraphs
detailed lesson plan
both word/PowerPoint and PDF formats are provided
Curriculum Objective:
Know how to write an IEEL (Identify, Explain, Example, Link) paragraph.
Outcome:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to construct an IEEL paragraph using appropriate subject-specific vocabulary.
This is a ready-to-go ‘Ofsted-proof’ four-part lesson with 4 sections: starter (inc. extension task), input, activity (with extra support for those who need it) and plenary. No planning or previous knowledge needed (from either teacher or students).
The lesson has been designed for a Year 9/10 class who have just begun reading the novel, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ as a GCSE text. It is suitable as a pre-reading lesson, to use as revision, or when moving on to exam questions. You could even use it as an introduction to writing IEEL paragraphs without reading the novel.
I have over 20 years in teaching English at GCSE. I am an experienced GCSE examiner with EDUQAS.
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.
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.