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

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

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.

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 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.

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*

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 Please have a look at my TES shop for other Boy’s Don’t Cry and English teaching resources.

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

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.

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 If you found this resource useful, please leave me a review.

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) Please check out my TES shop for more Boys Don’t Cry teaching resources.

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.

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.

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 KS3 Gothic Literature worksheet is designed to keep KS3 pupils engaged for at least an hour. It contains four activities: Research Vocabulary building Analysis 4.Creative Writing I have provided an answer sheet.

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.

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

Help your students to understand key concepts and exam questions with this classroom display of printable command word. Each poster contains a flat icon and simple definition. The image backs up verb’s meaning and makes it much easier for students to engage with their meaning. I have these up at the front of my room as a permanent display, using them in both KS3 and KS4 lessons. I also have a set laminated and stick one up at the top of my whiteboard when I want to explicitly teach one skill or type of exam question. Features the command words used on all exam boards for GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature. Supports both UK and US spellings of key terms. The pack contains posters explaining the following terms: Advise Analyse (you’ll find it spelled ‘Analyze’ in an additional poster) Argue Comment Compare Describe Evaluate Explain Explore Identify Infer Inform Link List Persuade Predict Quote Review Summarise (spelled ‘Summarize’ in an additional poster) Support If you require words that are featured on this list and would like them adding, please do let me know. wordywitterings.com

Differentiated writing frames for 2022 EDUQAS English Language component 2, questions 21 and 22. 3 levels of differentiated support/planning for each exam question. I am an experienced examiner for this unit and created this resource straight after marking the 2022 exam, based on the type of content and skills that leads students to achieve their best possible grades. These have been successfully tried out on my own classes. Differentiated as follows: Sheet 1 - For students who are working towards grades 3/4/5 or for those wanting more support. Full support including a vocabulary bank, with space to add personal spellings. Sheet 2 - For students who are working towards grades 6+, more ambitious techniques/punctuation. Halfway between a writing frame and planning sheet. Sheet 3 - A guided planning sheet for more confident pupils All sheets are in Arial, size 12 font. Mark schemes are available on the EDUQAS website (English Language, Past papers/mark schemes/2022/Component 2 mark scheme).