English · Key Stage 3 · £4.99
Year 7 English
Scheme of Work
Six half-termly units across one academic year, covering all four strands of the programme of study. Reading opens the year because writing improves fastest in students who have just read closely, and spoken English closes it because it draws on everything the other five units build.
£4.99The Year 7 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 35 pages
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The whole key stage: KS3 English scheme of work
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- 1aReading a Novel: Character and Inference
- 1bWriting to Describe and Narrate
- 2aPoetry: Voice, Image and Sound
- 2bIntroducing Shakespeare
- 3aMyths and Legends: Where Stories Come From
- 3bNon-fiction, Argument and Spoken English
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Lessons are one row each rather than a page each. That is enough to teach from, and not so much that it cannot be maintained across a whole department.
One principle applies to every unit and is stated once at the front: every claim about a text is followed by evidence from it, in writing and in discussion, from the first week of Year 7.
Every duration, text, task and assessment word is a strong default rather than a fixed rule. Year 7 means ages 11–12, or P7–S1 in Scotland.
- Written to
- The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013)
- Intended for
- heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent
- 35 pages · 10 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 7 English Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Reading a Novel: Character and Inference
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
How do writers make us care about someone who does not exist?
1b
Writing to Describe and Narrate
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
Why does one piece of writing put a picture in your head and another does not?
2a
Poetry: Voice, Image and Sound
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Why say it in fourteen lines when you could say it in a paragraph?
2b
Introducing Shakespeare
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
Why is a four-hundred-year-old play still worth three hours of your life?
3a
Myths and Legends: Where Stories Come From
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
Why do people on opposite sides of the world tell the same stories?
3b
Non-fiction, Argument and Spoken English
Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
What makes someone change their mind?
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