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

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).

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 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.

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

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 resource has been produced to support the teaching of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman at GCSE. Designed for whole-class teaching, so that the tier 2 and 3 vocabulary and metaphors can be explained to students without you having to keep stopping to explain what it all means. Pictures and diagrams are also included where relevant. This resource is suitable to support whole-class teaching, homework, revision, pre-teaching and independent reading of the book. This has been put together to boost the vocabulary of all students at all levels. It is particularly useful as an adaptive resource for students with EAL, ASD and hearing impairments. It is attractively, and simply presented, using a dyslexia-friendly font and background. This is an editable, 180-slide PowerPoint and a PDF version. Chapter headings and section dividers help you to find the relevant vocabulary quickly. If you are teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ at GCSE, please check out my other resources in my TES shop: worksheets, complete lessons and practice papers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

6 x ‘Lord of the Flies’ practice papers for Eduqas GCSE English Literature component 2. Bundle 1. Question topics are: Ralph, Piggy, Evil, Fear, Responsibility and Leadership.

4 x Eduqas GCSE English Literature practice papers for ‘A Christmas Carol’.

All the tricky vocabulary from Lord of the Flies in one PowerPoint. Support all levels of reader with these clear vocabulary slides featuring photographs and flat icons to aid understanding. These can be displayed on a board or on pupil devices as your read together in lessons, or used for pupils reading the novel at home. Can be used for pupils to annotate unfamiliar words in their copy of the novel as a pre-reading activity. An absolute game-changer if you find yourself stopping to explain words as you read aloud to the class. I’ve used a dyslexia-friendly font and background on these slides. 70 slides in total.

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

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.

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.