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.

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’ 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.

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 teaching worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman. Can be used as a taught lesson, as homework, as a cover lesson, or for independent learning. Content: Boys Don’t Cry chapters 12 and 13, dialogue, speech punctuation, speech marks, speech tags, direct speech, inverted commas, summarising

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.