Year 7 English Notes

Retrieve explicit information, make evidence-based inferences and evaluate how well a text choice works.

Select, integrate and explain the evidence that most directly supports a response.

Explain how structure and language choices suit a text's purpose, audience and context.

Analyse and deliberately use visual, audio, spatial and layout choices to shape perspective and meaning.

Build clear analytical paragraphs by making a precise claim, selecting relevant evidence and explaining how the evidence supports the idea.

Interpret how character, setting and events combine to develop a defensible thematic idea.

Explain how imagery, literary devices, sound and poetic structure create layers of meaning and aesthetic response.

Select authentic sources respectfully and compare how named creators and contexts shape particular perspectives.

Build complex and compound-complex sentences, maintain tense and connect ideas cohesively.

Use punctuation, technical vocabulary, roots and spelling patterns, then edit systematically for clarity and effect.

Plan, draft and revise extended informative, persuasive and analytical texts using purposeful structures and evidence.

Shape imaginative, descriptive and reflective texts through deliberate premise, detail, voice and revision.

Discuss ideas with evidence and plan, rehearse and deliver a purposeful spoken or multimodal presentation.