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Everything your child learns in Year 8 English.

This is the real curriculum data behind the Learn tab — not a marketing summary. 11 of 11 topics below are live online: click any of them to open the lesson.

📖 Reading

Sharper analytical reading, evaluation and rhetoric.

  • Analytical reading
    Skills: Analysing language, Analysing structure, Making an inference, Evaluating a text's effectiveness
  • Context and viewpoint
    Skills: Using context to inform reading, Identifying a writer's viewpoint, Identifying perspective
  • Comparison and rhetoric
    Skills: Comparing texts, Identifying rhetorical techniques

📚 Literature

A wider range of literary forms studied with more developed analysis.

  • Literary forms
    Skills: Analysing poetry, Studying Shakespeare, Analysing prose, Analysing drama
  • Literary analysis
    Skills: Analysing character, Analysing theme, Analysing symbolism, Using context in analysis, Recognising a literary movement

✍️ Writing

Creative writing alongside a wider range of transactional forms.

🔤 Grammar & Language

Sentence-level craft and consistent register.

  • Sentence craft
    Skills: Manipulating syntax, Varying sentence structure, Using clauses accurately, Punctuating accurately
  • Register and cohesion
    Skills: Maintaining register, Using cohesive devices, Using Standard English

📚 Vocabulary

Meaning, origin and figurative/rhetorical vocabulary.

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