About a Boy Gifted and Talented Pack
Challenging activity pack that stretches your gifted and more able students during their exploration of About a Boy at GCSE. The activities demonstrate how to achieve the highest grades possible using aspects of Bloom’s Taxonomy and give students control over their own learning.
An excellent resource; well written and intelligent. It is pitched exactly right for the G&T audience
The resource covers the key areas of the text: important events, characters, context, language, structure, form, themes, ideas and interpretations. Within each key area, engaging and thought-provoking activities aim to:
- Prompt the recall of important points, aid comprehension and reinforce clear, advanced understanding
- Support literal and abstract analyses
- Enable students to apply their knowledge of the play to a new situation or an unseen extract, encourage individual interpretations and stimulate new, creative and individual ideas
Teacher’s notes and answers have been included for the more challenging tasks.
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An excellent resource; well written and intelligent. It is pitched exactly right for the G&T audience. It encourages students to think and to arrive at independent conclusions... I like the 'dip in and out' design if the resource. The sheets are well designed for isolated use, as well as working through the whole pack... The nature of the activities is such that you could use a few concurrently, according to the learning types in your teaching group. This would ensure, with ease, that all students were getting the full advantage of the resource... Presentation is excellent; easily photocopiable, straightforward and logical. J Churchill, English Teacher
The ‘Going Further’, ‘Essay Tips’ and ‘Calling All A* Students’ encouraged independent learning and differentiation for those working a ‘B’ grade or above.
The exemplar responses throughout the resource are of good quality and the pieces with supportive annotations provide clear guidance and criteria for success; some lower grade exemplars may have been useful for comparison and AFL opportunities.
Very detailed resource. Good that it delves into 'areas' not 'chapters'. All aspects are helping to cover the Assessment Objectives... Knowledge of the text is good and motivation/behaviour of the characters from a literal and abstract aspect would help students to have an understanding of why characters behave in certain ways. It would extend knowledge and help students to look beyond the text. Plus it does help students to use supportive evidence with very good examples.