Year 7 English
Tense held steady across a whole passage, the continuous and perfect tenses, modal verbs, articles and determiners in use, and word formation — plus sentence types, connectors, dictionary and thesaurus skills, and reading for the main idea before writing a paragraph or an informal letter.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Language: phonics and word knowledge
- Prefixes and suffixesLesson
Build a new word by adding a prefix or a suffix, and say what the new word means.
- Using a dictionary and a thesaurusLesson
Find a word by alphabetical order and guide words, read what its entry tells you, and use a thesaurus to find a better word.
- Changing a word's part of speechLesson
Turn a word into a noun, adjective, verb or adverb by changing its ending.
Language: grammar and vocabulary
- Continuous and perfect tensesLesson
Recognise and form the present continuous, past continuous and present perfect.
- Articles and determiners in useLesson
Choose the, a, an or no article at all, and pick between few and a few, little and a little, either and neither.
- Comparison of adjectivesLesson
Form the comparative and superlative of an adjective — with -er and -est, with more and most, or by learning the irregular ones.
- Tense in stories and in reportsLesson
Choose the tense a piece of writing needs — the past for a story or a report, the present for instructions and general facts, and the past perfect for what happened earlier still.
- Keeping the tense consistentLesson
Spot the verb that breaks the tense of a passage, and correct it.
- Tenses across a passageLesson
Choose the tense each gap in a passage needs, using the time signals around it.
- Modal verbsLesson
Choose the modal verb that carries the right meaning — ability, permission, obligation, advice or possibility.
Language: text structure and punctuation
- Agreement in longer sentencesLesson
Find the real subject of a long sentence and make the verb agree with it, even when words come in between or the order is turned round.
- Simple, compound and complex sentencesLesson
Count the clauses in a sentence and name it simple, compound or complex.
- Conjunctions and connectorsLesson
Join clauses with the right conjunction, and link sentences with the right connector.
Literacy: reading and viewing
- Main idea and supporting detailLesson
Find what a passage is mainly about, tell a supporting detail apart from the main idea, and separate what a passage says from what it does not.
- Note-making and summarisingLesson
Turn a passage into short notes under headings, and write a summary that keeps the meaning in far fewer words.