Year 8 English

Vocabulary; spelling strategies; punctuation range; sentence construction; fronted adverbials; complex nouns; prepositional phrases; sentence construction; speaking/listening skills of discussion and effective sharing of ideas; personal targets.

Exploration of the presentational, organisational, linguistic and literary features of leaflets, reports, reviews, magazine articles and summaries, across reading and writing.

Exploration of a wide range of texts; development of a writer’s ideas, viewpoint and themes, and relating to other texts read; comparison of texts from different cultures and times; exploration of how different audiences respond to texts; role-play and drama; collaboration and discussion.

More complex inference; using textual evidence of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features; narrative tension, setting; role-play and drama; speaking and listening skills of discussion and collaboration.

Structural, presentational, linguistic and rhetorical features of a range of non-fiction texts.

Planning; narrative structure; function of character and type; physical description and dialogue to convey character; textual interpretation and evidence; collaboration and discussion.

Organisation of effective explanations and presentations; working collaboratively in a group to formulate plans of action; ways to ask and answer questions; rules of formal debate.

Effect of literary, structural and linguistic features; development of poets’ ideas; comparison of poems from different cultures; discussion and collaboration, role-play and drama.

Issues of fact and opinion; bias and viewpoint; note-taking; structure of news reports; issues of audience and purpose; collaboration, discussion; working in groups to formulate ideas and plans of action; role-play and drama; interviews and variations in spoken language.