Marlborough Gardens,
Upminster, Essex,
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Curriculum Yearbook

 


English

Aims for the Year
  • develop reading and understanding
  • develop speaking and listening skills
  • develop writing skills, making drafting an essential part of the process
  • continue the progress on literary skills from Year 6
What we will do
  • prose-post and pre 1914
  • one play
  • various non-literary texts
  • one media text
  • narrative and personal writing
  • revision of key skills
  • knowledge about language
  • ICT
Assessment
  • continuous classroom assessment
  • regular marking of homework
  • self-assessment – termly
  • examination in summer term
Ways you can help
  • ensure that the pupil has a dictionary and thesaurus
  • revise spellings with pupils and play word games (eg Scrabble, crosswords)
  • encourage daily reading for pleasure; any kinds of text are useful eg newspapers, non-fiction; the internet
  • read and discuss the literature the pupil is studying
  • take the pupil to the library, theatre, cinema
Keywords
advise/advice bought/brought quiet/quite
chose/choose
a lot of conscience/conscious
thank you
allowed/aloud practice/practice to/too/two