Year 8 English
- Use skimming, scanning and close reading effectively to allow you to develop an advanced understanding of the text.
- Identify a wide range of language techniques.
- Use accurate terminology to refer to language techniques in almost all cases.
Context & Theme
- Make detailed connections between a text and its context/themes.
- Offer some explanation of how the context or themes behind texts affect overall meanings.
Evaluation & Effect
- Make sustained and mostly detailed analytical comments about the intentions of a writer and the effect their language use has on the reader.
Reference & Style
- Use sustained and relevant textual reference in the form of direct, and often embedded, quotations.
- Demonstrate use of an organised analytical/critical style.
- Make sound and sustained comparisons between texts.
- Spell most words correctly, making only phonetically plausible errors.
- Choose vocabulary for effect with regular evidence of more ambitious vocabulary choices
- Always use all basic punctuation correctly.
- Show some evidence of using a wider range of punctuation including commas and ellipsis to mark pauses.
- Show evidence of using simple, compound and complex sentences grammatically correctly.
- Use varied sentence lengths for effect.
Sequencing & Cohesion
- Logically sequence all work with clear links between paragraphs.
- Show some evidence of using more complex connectives.
- Always use paragraphs to structure main ideas in their writing.
- Develop writing with imaginative detail.
- Show evidence of using basic language techniques in their writing.
Audience & Purpose
- Demonstrate a clear awareness of audience and purpose.
- Demonstrate an understanding of conventions of a range of writing purposes with most techniques being used appropriately.
Headteacher Mike Lambert
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