English homework activities for year 7

English homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your homework activities for year 7 English in one place.

Including differentiated tasks for reading, writing and SPaG, there’s a task for every week of the school year.

Whether you use it as a homework workbook or dip in and out, it’s perfect for teachers, home tutors and teaching assistants of year 7 students.

The pack is identical to the Home Learning for year 6 – English pack on Teachit Primary: it has been specially adapted for year 7 students to consolidate KS2 prior learning.

What’s included

• 39 photocopiable tasks, differentiated where appropriate
• mapped to the NC objectives for year 5/6
• answers where relevant
• teacher’s tick list to keep track of work set.

What’s inside
Teaching notes (page 4)
Section 1 – student section
Reading resources (pages 5-36)

• Comprehension resources
• Book review resources
• Poetry performance resources
• Different genres resources
• Figurative language resources

Writing resources (pages 37-67)

• Resource – proofreading
• Resource – assessing a piece of writing
• Resource – describing characters
• Resource – describing settings
• Resource – the plot
• Resource – the big write
• Resource – a newspaper report
• Resource – persuasive writing
• Resource – formal or informal?
• Resource – a précis
• Resource – advice for year 6
• Resource – your school report

Spelling, punctuation and grammar resources (pages 68-100)

• Resource – prefixes and suffixes
• Resource – homophones
• Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus
• Resource – a conversation
• Resource – parenthesis
• Spelling resources
• Resource – passive verbs
• Resource – relative clauses
• Resource – lists
• Resource – modal verbs
• Resource – avoiding ambiguity
• Resource – the perfect tense
• Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses
• Section 2 – teacher section

Teacher’s tick list (pages 101-103)
Answers
Reading (pages 104-110)

• Comprehension resources
• Figurative language resources

Writing (pages 11-112)

• Proofreading resources

Spelling, punctuation and grammar (pages 113-129)

• Resource – prefixes and suffixes
• Resource – homophones
• Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus
• Resource – parenthesis
• Spelling resources
• Resource – passive verbs
• Resource – relative clauses
• Resource – lists
• Resource – modal verbs
• Resource – avoiding ambiguity
• Resource – the perfect tense
• Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses