This bundle of worksheets supports a blended learning approach to teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman at GCSE.
Included in this bundle are worksheets for chapters 1-22.
The worksheets cover skills for both GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature.
Also included, is my scheme of work for all 34 lessons of this unit. All accompanying resources are available on my TES shop: Wordy Witterings.
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 of worksheets supports a blended learning approach to teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman at GCSE.
Included in this bundle are worksheets for chapters 23 - 50.
The worksheets cover skills for both GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature.
Also included, is my scheme of work for all 34 lessons of this unit. All accompanying resources are available on my TES shop: Wordy Witterings.
This is a script and powerpoint for a secondary school assembly for Pride Month.
It was written to be student-led, with six speaking sections and some optional student dramatisations.
It’s main content is:
The history of Pride
The Pride flag
Celebrating diversity
The importance of tolerance
Ways to encourage an atmosphere of tolerance
Suitable for KS3 or KS4, this colour by number sheet asks pupils to read the definition and select the correct poetry term. Great end-of-term or revision exercise.
Answer sheet provided.
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.
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 huge bundle of resources to accompany the teaching and revision of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ at GCSE.
In this bundle, you get:
6 practice papers, with suggested content for answers and planning tables
Vocabulary powerpoint for all 50 chapters, to accompany the reading of the novel
No prep lesson on the theme of Gender
Colour by numbers revision activity
Stand-alone lesson on how to write an IEEL paragraph
Quotation card sort activity
Author’s tecnniques self-marking activity
Exploring the title task
Complete scheme of work
This bundle accompanies the complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ at GCSE.
Other resources for the teaching of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ are available on my TES shop.
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.
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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 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.
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.
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).
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 worksheet requires no teacher input at all. It is suitable to be used for cover lessons, revision, homework, isolation or catch-up work etc.
All the pupil needs is a copy of ‘An Inspector Calls’.
What you get:
two versions of the worksheet (including a version with plenty of scaffolding)
varied self-guided tasks to assist revision of plot, character, and quotations
enough independent tasks to last even the quickest pupils a full hour
answer sheet (suitable for self-assessment or peer-assessment)
both Word and PDF formats
You may like to save some money by buying this worksheet in a bundle with similar worksheets for Acts two and three of ‘An Inspector Calls’. This bundle is available in the Wordy Witterings TES shop.
These worksheet require no teacher input at all. They are suitable to be used for cover lessons, revision, homework, isolation or catch-up work etc.
All the pupil needs is a copy of ‘An Inspector Calls’.
What you get:
worksheets for three separate lessons: Act One, Act Two and Act Three
two versions of each worksheet (including a version with plenty of scaffolding)
varied self-guided tasks to assist revision of plot, character, and quotations
enough independent tasks in each worksheet to last even the quickest pupils a full hour
answer sheets (suitable for self-assessment or peer-assessment)
both Word and PDF formats
You may prefer to buy these worksheets separately. All are available in the Wordy Witterings TES shop.
Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 37.
Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning.
Content of these worksheets includes:
homophobia
short tasks about chapter 37 testing: locating information; inference; language and structure; writing an IEEL paragraph
teacher feedback sheet
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.
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 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.