Year 8 English
Working out a word from its sentence, building words with a prefix or suffix, turning speech into a report, a full year of grammar, reading for the main idea, and writing a paragraph or an informal letter.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Reading: comprehension
- Vocabulary in contextLesson
Work out what an unfamiliar word means from the sentence around it.
- 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.
Vocabulary, grammar 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.
- Transforming sentencesLesson
Rewrite a sentence in another form — statement, question, exclamation or negative — without changing what it means.
- Question tagsLesson
Add the right question tag to a statement — negative after a positive, positive after a negative, using the statement's own helping verb.
- Adverbs and their kindsLesson
Spot an adverb, name its kind — manner, place, time, frequency or degree — and tell it apart from the adjective it was built from.
- 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.
- Prepositions in idiomatic useLesson
Choose the preposition that a particular verb, adjective or noun always keeps beside it.
- Phrasal verbsLesson
Work out what a verb plus a small word means together, and put the object in the right place.
- 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.
- Prefixes and suffixesLesson
Build a new word by adding a prefix or a suffix, and say what the new word means.
- Direct and indirect speechLesson
Turn a spoken statement into reported speech, shifting the tense, the pronoun and the time words.