Homeschool → New Zealand → Year 7 → English
Year 7 english
In Year 6, students make deliberate grammatical choices, such as using active or passive voice to shape how information is presented. They analyse how persuasive texts are built to influence an audience and use Greek and Latin roots to understand and spell more sophisticated vocabulary. Students also explore a range of poetic forms, link ideas cohesively across paragraphs and edit their own writing with increasing independence, preparing them for the demands of secondary school.
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Language
- Active and passive voiceFull lesson · 40 minRecognising active and passive sentences, changing one into the other and choosing the voice that suits the writer's purpose.
- Cohesion and connectivesTopic outlineLinking ideas within and between paragraphs using text connectives such as 'however', 'as a result' and 'meanwhile', and consistent pronoun reference.
Literature
Literacy
- Analysing persuasive textsFull lesson · 45 minIdentifying the audience, purpose and persuasive devices in a text, and evaluating how convincing the argument is.
- Greek and Latin rootsFull lesson · 35 minUsing common roots such as 'tele', 'graph', 'port' and 'aud' to work out the meaning and spelling of unfamiliar words.
- Editing and proofreadingTopic outlineReviewing writing for clarity, structure, word choice, spelling and punctuation using a simple checklist.