Year 7 English

Reading Chapters 1 -9

SPAG:

• Verb/subject agreement

• Commas – use of three comma types.

• Use of the semi-colon and speech.

• Main clause and subordinate clause

• Sentence types

SKILLS and CONCEPTS:

• Inform/explain/ describe

• TAP: Text type; Audience and Purpose.

• Explore/imagine/ entertain

• Facts/opinions

Reading chapters 10-17

SPAG:

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Ellipses

SKILLS and CONCEPTS:

• Inferring/deducing and interpret.

• Comprehension

• Finding evidence

• Summarising and comparing (AO2 and AO3)

• Narrative voice

• Foreshadowing

• Symbolism

• Characterisation

• Lexical/semantic field

• WWHW paragraphs

• Evaluating ideas (AO4)

Autumn 1:

Assessed for writing

Mid-term assessment: week 3

w/c: 26/9/22

draft and write autobiographical piece. 

Class feedback

Final assessment:

Week 5:  

w/c 10/10/22

redraft and amend autobiographical piece, using skills taught in interim

Autumn 2: 

Assessed for reading

Mid term: analysis of a setting (extract – Diagon Alley).

Week 4

w/c: 21/11/22

Final: analysis of a setting (extract: The Restricted Section )

Week 6

w/c: 5/12/22

AR Reading:

Points target for each term should be met. Homelearn

Assessed for Writing

SPAG:

• word classes

• homophones

• Direct speech

• apostrophes

• Semi-colon

SKILLS and CONCEPTS

• Describe/ imagine & entertain

• Writing an action sequence

• Characterisation

• Freytag’s pyramid

• plot-line

• Building tension

Assessed for reading

SPAG:

Knowledge bank of key words

SPaG starters will look at synonyms – e.g language of love: ardour, passion, ….

SKILLS and CONCEPTS:

• Deduce/infer/ interpret

• Language change – Shakespearian

• Context: Tudors

• Genres: tragedy and comedy

• WWHW paragraphs

• Language devices:

• Structural devices: sonnet, prose…

• Iambic pentameter

Spring Term 1:

Write own myth/legend. 

Assessed for writing

Mid term

Week 4

W/C: 24/01/22

assessment Creative writing -  class marked

Final

Week 7

W/C: 14/02/22

marked for AO5 and AO6

Spring Term 2:

Shakespeare: extract and WWHW analysis.

Assessed for reading

Mid term:

Week 2/3

W/C 06/03/22 (2)

class mark

Final:

Week 4/5

W/C: 20/03/22

AR Reading

Non-fiction writing – writing for a specific audience:

SPAG:

• Subject/verb

• Main clauses: simple sentence

• Run-on sentences.

• Revising comma use ABC

• Subordinate clauses.

• Semi-colon

SKILLS and CONCEPTS:

• Inform/persuade/advise

• Facts and opinions

• Passive/active voice

• Bias

• Denotation and connotation

• Persuasive devices: GRIPPERS and AFOREST

• Emotive language

• TAP revise

Assessment: Analysis skills based

SPAG:

• Spellings of key terms.

SKILLS and CONCEPTS

• Poem

• Rhyme & Rhythm

• Free-verse

• Figurative language: Metaphor

• Simile, Imagery, personification, zoomorphism, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration.

• Syllables

• Dramatic monologue & persona

• Structure and Form:

• Stanza

• Caesura and enjambment.

Summer 1:

Write a review – this can be an AR book, a place, film or thing.

Assessment:

Writing AO5 & AO6

Mid term

w/c: 9/5/22

Week 3

Writing for TAP – AO5/AO6

Final:

w/c: 23/5/22

Week 5

Summer 2

Assessment: Skills based

w/c: 11/07/22

AR Reading:  Points targets for each term.

STAR testing – see growth report to complete progress for year.