This is a no-prep KS2 to KS3 transition lesson, Year 5/6 taster lesson or Year 7 cover lesson. It features an original short story for pupils to read and a short piece of creative writing. There is just one page to photocopy for pupils. The lesson should last 50-60 minutes.

6 x ‘Lord of the Flies’ practice papers for Eduqas GCSE English Literature. Bundle 2 contains questions about: Nature, Civilisation, Loss of Innocence, Violence, Order and Discipline, and Jack.

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

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.

This resource can be used as prompts for ‘quick writes’ or discussion. Ideal to use as starters or plenaries for classes studying ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ at GCSE. You will get both a PDF version and editable PowerPoint version. This resource is part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ collection. The full scheme of work, and all the accompanying resources are on my TES shop: Wordy Witterings.

This pack contains everything you need to teach ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature. You will get a 34-lesson scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, and all of the resources you need to deliver it. This scheme of work uses a ‘blended learning’ approach, covering skills for both GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature. It incorporates the 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. In this HUGE bundle, you will get ALL of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ resources: Scheme of work (medium-term plan) Vocabulary slides to support reading in class or at home Worksheets for each chapter 6 practice exam papers with support grids and suggestions for content of responses WAGOLL examples Prompts for quick-writes and discussions Lesson plan and resources: Writing IEEL paragraphs Lesson plan and resources: Gender 2 colour-by-numbers revision sheets Who said that? card sort Chapter 10 and 11 maze Author’s techniques self-marking activity Cover lesson about Malorie Blackman Exploring the title

9 printable, editable posters of black authors for Black History Month 2024 (8 authors and one title). Authors featured are: Malorie Blackman, Maya Angelou, Benjamin Zephaniah, Toni Morrison, Grace Nichols, John Agard, Zadie Smith, Alice Walker. Designed for a secondary school library.

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. 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. *Answer: LITERATURE protagonist 2. simile 3. exclamation 4. foreshadowing linear structure 6. dramatic irony 7. parallels 8. internal monologue stock phrases 10. dual narrative*

A fun way to revise Boy’s Don’t Cry for GCSE English Literature. There are two colour by numbers sheets. Sheet 1 asks students to match the quotation to the speaker. Sheet 2 asks students to match the definition to the t echnical device. Answer sheets are provided. Suitable for both EDUQAS and Edexcel GCSE revision.

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.

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 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.

Through completing the scavenger hunt, pupils will learn about the features of non-fiction texts. It is suitable for pupils to work on their own, in pairs or in groups, and may be used as either a pre-teaching or revision activity. Put together with KS3 in mind, it would also be great for an injection of fun at KS4. The lesson in designed to be a high-engagement, independent and challenging activity for pupils, but low-prep and no-marking for teachers. The premise: Detective Amanda Lord, a seasoned investigator with a love of stylish accessories, finds herself the victim of a theft… her beloved fedora hat has been stolen. When she finds a ransom note, your class must work hard to solve a series of clues to crack the code and find her missing hat. What you get with this complete lesson pack: Engaging narrative premise Accompanying PowerPoint Printable resources Answer sheets Non-fiction text types covered: Instructions Tabloid newspaper articles Broadsheet newspaper articles Advice Reports Formal letters Informal letters Reviews Speeches Social Media Posts

This bundle consists of three new examples of EDUQAS GCSE English Language Component 2, Section B question papers (6 writing tasks in total). For each of the 6 tasks, a model answer is provided. You will get 6 questions and 6 model answers in total, split into 3 practice exam papers. The mark shemes for these tasks may be found on the Eduqas website (EDUQAS, past papers, Summer 2022, GCSE English Language, component 2, section B). I am both an examiner for this paper and a teacher of GCSE English Language with over twenty years of experience.

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.

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.

Four blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 31 Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: research task: careers working with children apostrophes for possession features of a report writing a report answer sheet for all tasks 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.

Boys Don’t Cry - worksheet for chapter 1. Covers: idioms, facts, adjectives, register

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 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.