Homework activities for year 7 – English

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Homework activities for year 7 – English
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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

This sample shows a writing homework resource from the Homework activities for year 7 pack:

Resource 6 - the big write

In this task, you will:
• write a narrative, selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary to enhance meaning
• use a wide range of words and phrases to connect your paragraphs
• use dialogue to convey your character and advance the action.

You’ve worked hard to develop ideas for a character, setting and plot for your story. Now you’re going to write it! 

Things to include to really interest your reader:

• varied vocabulary (no ‘said’ or ‘nice’)
• a range of connectives and conjunctions
• dialogue (speech) 
• a mixture of simple, compound and complex sentences
• a really catchy title!

Homework activities for year 7 – English
£10.00
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All reviews

Have you used this resource?

5

20/06/2021

Engaging short tasks, suitable for all abilities.
Very useful

Havva Oykener

31/05/2021

5

21/04/2021

Thank you all for your comments and feedback – we’re always grateful when teachers take the time to get in touch. This downloadable workbook is one of just 5 downloadable books/collections that don't form part of a Teachit subscription (which gives you unlimited access to nearly 26,000 pages of resources and 34 KS3/4 teaching packs). Although we believe that a Teachit subscription offers excellent value for money, we’ll continue to review our subscription offer in light of your suggestions.

lucy@teachit.co.uk

21/04/2021

5

20/06/2021

Engaging short tasks, suitable for all abilities.
Very useful

Havva Oykener

31/05/2021

5

21/04/2021

Thank you all for your comments and feedback – we’re always grateful when teachers take the time to get in touch. This downloadable workbook is one of just 5 downloadable books/collections that don't form part of a Teachit subscription (which gives you unlimited access to nearly 26,000 pages of resources and 34 KS3/4 teaching packs). Although we believe that a Teachit subscription offers excellent value for money, we’ll continue to review our subscription offer in light of your suggestions.

lucy@teachit.co.uk

21/04/2021

5

20/04/2021

Hi recently just paid for a subscription, i am confused as to why members have to pay an additional for this?

Mahvish Qaisar

19/04/2021

Why do we have to pay for this?

Francesca Bovone

19/04/2021

A shame there is a charge for this. I pay a subscription so why can this not be downloadable like other packs?

Bronach McConville

18/04/2021

I agree with Anthony. This was my "go to site" for a long time.

Jill Jordan

18/04/2021

Why are you yet again charging for material when I pay a subscription. It is getting to the stage now where I will not be renewing my subscription as this cost is becoming prohibitive. There appears to be no incentive to continue paying quite high fees to get little extra.

Anthony Dale

18/04/2021