Year 7

English(As per the Australian Curriculum)

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating. Learning in English builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years, and teachers will revisit and strengthen these as needed.

In Years 7 and 8, students communicate with peers, teachers, individuals, groups and community members in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments. They experience learning in familiar and unfamiliar contexts that relate to the school curriculum, local community, regional and global contexts.

Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view, interpret, evaluate and perform a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is aesthetic, as well as texts designed to inform and persuade. These include various types of media texts including newspapers, magazines and digital texts, early adolescent novels, non-fiction, poetry and dramatic performances. Students develop their understanding of how texts, including media texts, are influenced by context, purpose and audience.

The range of literary texts for Pre-primary to Year 10 comprises Australian literature, including the oral narrative traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, as well as the contemporary literature of these two cultural groups, and classic and contemporary world literature, including texts from and about Asia.

Literary texts that support and extend students in Years 7 and 8 as independent readers are drawn from a range of realistic, fantasy, speculative fiction and historical genres and involve some challenging and unpredictable plot sequences and a range of non-stereotypical characters. These texts explore themes of interpersonal relationships and ethical dilemmas within real-world and fictional settings and represent a variety of perspectives. Informative texts present technical and content information from various sources about specialised topics. Text structures are more complex including chapters, headings and subheadings, tables of contents, indexes and glossaries. Language features include successive complex sentences with embedded clauses, unfamiliar technical vocabulary, figurative and rhetorical language, and information supported by various types of graphics.

Students create a range of imaginative, informative and persuasive types of texts, for example narratives, procedures, performances, reports and discussions, and are beginning to create literary analyses and transformations of texts.

Typically, students will:

• Analyse and explain how authors organise their texts.
• Introducing & Discussing the Advance concepts of English grammar.
• Select vocabulary to represent ideas, characters and events.
• Compare and analyse information in different texts.
• Use evidence from a text to explain their response to it.
• Using electronic devices, create detailed texts about a range of topics, including topics they have been studying.
• Demonstrate understanding of grammar, including the ability to write complex sentences.
• Develop an expanding vocabulary.
• Use accurate spelling and punctuation.
• Use speaking strategies including questioning, clarifying and rephrasing to contribute to class discussions.
• Literacy skills (Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, Spelling, Reading, Writing, Punctuation, phonics one writing topic per week which includes one Speaking Assessment Rubric).
• Advanced Comprehension skills (Two comprehensions per week)
• Writing skills across varying text types of viz. informative text, creative text, argumentative text, poetry, plays(One page of writing & One writing exercise per week)
• Reading skills: Reading one page everyday as per the guidance & the instruction of the English Tutor Our courses provide the ideal combination of challenges for us to gain an understanding of each student’s capacity, so we can refine our focus and ideally, help build that student’s foundation to perform well in Year 1 and beyond.
• They also get to learn new stories and poems and basic uses of tenses in sentences in the English language. At Coaching Guruour English worksheets are designed in a simple manner that helps kids to learn English language easily.
• Writing – Creating advertisements, advanced descriptive writing.