A complete 34 lesson scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman at GCSE. This sheme of work uses a ‘blended learning’ approach, covering skills for both GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature. It incorporates whole-class reading of the novel, activities on each chapter, non-fiction writing, narrative writing, literary and linguistic devices, puncutation and grammar. It also incorporates interactive and kinaesthetic revision activities. All accompanying resources are available in my TES shop: Wordy Witterings.

Worksheet to accompany chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Covers: metaphors, literal meanings, minor sentences, simple sentences 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 a list of all the EDUQAS GCSE English Language exam papers from June 2017 to November 2023. It’s presented as a table on which you can track which papers you’ve used with each year group. I keep a print out in my planner and update it throughout the year. It’s also useful for helping you to quickly find the correct paper (or the mark scheme to go with the correct paper). Fully editable Word document.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 25. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: vocabulary building: emotions identifying character emotions in an extract from chapter 25 Dante and Emma’s relationship structuring an exam response summarising Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 23 and 24. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: parenthesis parenthetic commas brackets dashes an author’s style writing about Malorie Blackman’s style of writing Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

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.

Worksheets for Boys Don’t Cry, chapter 19. Suitable for a teacher-led lesson, cover lesson, homework or independent learning. Part of a series of blended learning worksheets for this GCSE novel.

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 19. This resource may be used for a teacher-led lesson, cover lessons, homework or independent learning.

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.