• The Year 7 English Assessment will take place during the week commencing - 20th May

Year 7 English Assessment 2024

Transformation and Journeys

So far this year you have studied the following units: 

• Coraline and creative writing 

• Poetry - Voices of Others 

• Oliver Twist and transactional writing

Your assessment will cover all three of these areas of study. 

Year 7 Assessment

The assessment itself will be split into the following sections: 

• Vocabulary - this section contains multiple choice questions based on the tier 2 vocabulary that students have covered in all three units. 

• Punctuation - students will be given a short section of text based on one of the areas they have covered, there will be five errors that they need to correct. 

• Reading and Comprehension - students will be asked to read an extract or a poem. They will then be asked to write a thesis statement, construct topic sentences, support their ideas with quotations and begin to analyse the quotations they have selected. 

• Knowledge - Students will be tested on the knowledge that they have accumulated across the three units. (All knowledge can be found on the knowledge organisers provided.) 

• Writing - Students will be asked to write a short piece of either fictional or transactional writing. They will be tested on their ability to use the conventions of the form they have been given, embed the creative sentence types they have learnt and punctuate their work accurately. 

Revision Activities to complete: 

• The knowledge maps contain all the information needed to revise for your assessment

• Open and Download the documents in order for you to complete the revision for your English Assessment