Homework activities for year 7 – English
Homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your homework activities for year 7 English in one place.
Including differentiated tasks for reading, writing and SPaG, there’s a task for every week of the school year.
Whether you use it as a homework workbook or dip in and out, it's perfect for teachers, home tutors and teaching assistants of year 7 students.
The pack is identical to the Home Learning for year 6 – English pack on Teachit Primary: it has been specially adapted for year 7 students to consolidate KS2 prior learning.
What's included
- 39 photocopiable tasks, differentiated where appropriate
- mapped to the NC objectives for year 5/6
- answers where relevant
- teacher’s tick list to keep track of work set.
What's inside
Teaching notes (page 4)
Section 1 – student section
Reading resources (pages 5-36)
- Comprehension resources
- Book review resources
- Poetry performance resources
- Different genres resources
- Figurative language resources
Writing resources (pages 37-67)
- Resource – proofreading
- Resource – assessing a piece of writing
- Resource – describing characters
- Resource – describing settings
- Resource – the plot
- Resource – the big write
- Resource – a newspaper report
- Resource – persuasive writing
- Resource – formal or informal?
- Resource – a précis
- Resource – advice for year 6
- Resource – your school report
Spelling, punctuation and grammar resources (pages 68-100)
- Resource – prefixes and suffixes
- Resource – homophones
- Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus
- Resource – a conversation
- Resource – parenthesis
- Spelling resources
- Resource – passive verbs
- Resource – relative clauses
- Resource – lists
- Resource – modal verbs
- Resource – avoiding ambiguity
- Resource – the perfect tense
- Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses
Section 2 – teacher section
Teacher’s tick list (pages 101-103)
Answers
Reading (pages 104-110)
- Comprehension resources
- Figurative language resources
Writing (pages 11-112)
- Proofreading resources
Spelling, punctuation and grammar (pages 113-129)
- Resource – prefixes and suffixes
- Resource – homophones
- Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus
- Resource – parenthesis
- Spelling resources
- Resource – passive verbs
- Resource – relative clauses
- Resource – lists
- Resource – modal verbs
- Resource – avoiding ambiguity
- Resource – the perfect tense
- Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses
This sample shows a writing homework resource from the Homework activities for year 7 pack:
Resource 6 - the big write
In this task, you will:
• write a narrative, selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary to enhance meaning
• use a wide range of words and phrases to connect your paragraphs
• use dialogue to convey your character and advance the action.
You’ve worked hard to develop ideas for a character, setting and plot for your story. Now you’re going to write it!
Things to include to really interest your reader:
• varied vocabulary (no ‘said’ or ‘nice’)
• a range of connectives and conjunctions
• dialogue (speech)
• a mixture of simple, compound and complex sentences
• a really catchy title!
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