Comprehensive Guide to Completing Homework Grids for Year 8 Students
This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to complete homework grids for Year 8 students for English studies. It includes tasks focusing on spelling, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, reading comprehension, language techniques, challenges, and making connections. The guide emphasizes the importance of attention to detail, critical thinking, and communication with teachers when needed.
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Weekly Homework Grids YEAR 8 BOOKLET 1 AUTUMN Name: _____________________________ Teacher: ____________________________ Room: ______________________________
How to complete the homework grids (Tasks 1-3) 1. Spelling 2. Grammar and punctuation 3. Vocabulary Pupils will see two words: one spelled correctly, the other is a common way of misspelling it. They should circle or highlight the correct spelling. This task will check pupils general knowledge of how to proof-read and correctly structure sentences. They might need to add missing capital letters and punctuation, or create sentences using key words. Pupils will be asked to find out the definition of a word. This word will be linked to the topic being studied in English. They can copy a definition from the dictionary or write it in their own words. Example: Key terms: Example: A complex sentence has a major and minor clause or part. The minor clause won't make sense without the major clause. As you can see from the example below, pupils must state the word type as well as the defintion: School Although it was raining, Laura didn't put her hood up. Education noun Skool A compound sentence is when two clauses are joined by a connective. These do make sense on their own. This means the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university, in order to learn. Laura brought her umbrella so she didn't need to wear her hood.
How to complete the homework grids (Tasks 4-6) 4. Reading Comprehension 5. Technique Pupils will be given a brief sentence or quote from a familiar text studied in class. The will need to work out what language technique has been used in the sentence/quote and write this in the space provided. 6. Challenge This final homework task will require pupils to complete a random task aimed at stretching and challenging them. The tasks will be a selection of the following: Transformation turn a piece of text into a simple image/turn an image into a description. Pupils will be required to read a passage from a text related to their English studies. They should read the passage then answer the question underneath it. The challenge task will require them to think about what is suggested by the technique and explain what it helps them to imagine or feel. (Please note: challenge tasks are NOT compulsory). Connections Map make links between the given words and explain how they link. Key terms: Example: Triangle rank order the given subject from best to worst, first to last, etc. Infer this means to read between the lines and make sensible guesses based on the evidence in the text. The cat fell heavily onto the mat. What is this technique? adverb Link to learning identify the task that links to a previous English lesson and explain the link. Analyse this means your child will need to work out the effect or impact of the writers' language choices. Challenge: what is the effect? The word heavily makes me imagine a very tired cat, who cannot walk any further. The fact that the cat fell, rather than sat or lay, suggests that it had no control over lowering its body, and the word heavily reinforces this lack of control. Listing Pupils will need to select four key details from the text based on the question focus.
Homework Grids Expectations - Firstly, complete the homework grid assigned. - Secondly, use your Knowledge Book of the 'how to' pages the front to help you. - Thirdly, email your teacher BEFORE the day it's due of you are struggling.
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.1 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add the apostrophe: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Capitalism A lot The mothers bags were very heavy. The childs face glowered when she asked him to carry some. Type of word _______ Alot Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension What can you infer about the place and people from this extract? 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? The sun was as bright as a burning torch. It contained several large streets all very like each other, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom everyday was the same as yesterday and tomorrow _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What is this technique? ____________ Answer: Task _____ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.2 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Identify the incorrect apostrophes: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Prometheus Precense Ben s leg s were tired after the race. His brother s werent very sympathetic toward s him. Type of word _______ Presence Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension 5. Technique 5. Challenge: Transform this sentence into an image: His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and The flowers wept under the heat of the sun. arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and They were in an opening in front of a large factory, from which men and women were streaming for their mid day meal. flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these What is this technique? ____________ luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. List four things that you learn about the Monster: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.3 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Circle the complex sentence: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? During her morning break, Carolina ate her bagel. Inequality Similie Type of word _______ Laura buttered her bagel then she added cream cheese. Simile Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension The rainstorm had ended and the grey mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind. The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland. Never, never had Mary dreamed of a sky so blue. In India skies were hot and blazing; this was of a deep cool blue which almost seemed to sparkle like the waters of some lovely bottomless lake, and here and there, high, high in the arched blueness floated small clouds of snow-white fleece. What can you infer about the place and people from this extract? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge: Frankenstein was described as a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution . While I nodded, nearly napping What is this technique? ____________ What does this sentence suggest to you about Mary Shelley s views on the Industrial Revolution? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.4 1. Spelling Identify the incorrect spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Turn the following sentences into a compound sentences: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Revolution Desision Jake forgot his umbrella. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Dan walked his dog. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Type of word _______ Decision Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension Next to the frying pan was a very old shrivelled man, whose villanous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair. He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and a clothes- horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? Wouldn t you have done the same? What is this technique? ____________ Answer: Task _____ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about the man: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.5 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Explain the effect of the dash. 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? She crept through the door silently. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Would ve Suffrage Type of word _______ Would of Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. What can you infer about the place from this extract? 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this image into a short description: The man seemed lonely, confused and upset. Oliver, groping his way with one hand, ascended with much difficulty the dark and broken stairs. He threw open the door of a back-room; of which the walls and ceiling were perfectly black with age and dirt. There was a deal table before the fire: upon which were a candle, stuck in a ginger-beer bottle, two or three pewter pots, a loaf and butter, and a plate. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.6 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Write a description of yourself using two simple, one compound and one complex sentence: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Poverty Weird Type of word _______ Wierd Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. How has the writer used language to present the woman? 5. Technique 5. Challenge Rank order these three characters in order of who you feel most sorry for: Frankenstein s monster, The Watercress Girl, Tom from the Water Babies. Explain your top choice. She has a heart of gold. She was dressed in rich materials - satins, and lace, and silks - all of white. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Homework Grid Autumn 1.7 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add in all of the missing punctuation: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Morality Tradition is doing things because theyve always been done it is excluding because others will think less of you if you dont follow them it is dead because people have stopped asking why they honour those traditions TONGE Type of word _______ TONGUE Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this sentence into an image: 4. Reading Comprehension. Cheese is the single greatest thing in the history of humanity! You couldn't be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn't be a Surplus if you were loved. I ask you, what would you do if you had two tongues in your mouth, and lost the first one, the mother tongue, and could not really know the other, the foreign tongue. What is this technique? ____________ What can you infer about the word Surplus from this quote? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Homework Grid Autumn 1.8 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Circle the compound sentence: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Whilst reading a poem to her class, Miss Peden burst into tears. Identity Bilingual Type of word _______ Orla went to the gym then she treated herself to a cake. Identitie Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? Crash went the lightening. Boom went the thunder. Conor blinked groggily at his room, then he frowned. Answer: Task _____ What is this technique? ____________ What does the adverb suggest about Conor? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Homework Grid Autumn 1.9 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Correct/replace the incorrect commas: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Stereotype All right it wasn't the wind, it was definitely a voice but not one he recognized, it wasn't his mother's that was for sure, it wasn't a woman's voice at all and he wondered for a crazy moment if his dad had somehow made a surprise trip from America Went Type of word _______ Whent Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. What can you infer about the place from this extract? In the pale half-light of the moon, he could clearly see the church tower up on the small hill behind his house, the one with the train tracks curving beside it, two hard steel lines glowing dully in the night. The moon shone, too, on the graveyard attached to the church, filled with tombstones you could hardly read anymore. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this image into a short description: Stop it now! Stop it now! What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Homework Grid Autumn 1.10 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Create a compound sentence: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? House + but + fire Friend Nationality _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Type of word _______ Freind Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. I remembered years ago when Sephy had snuck me my first taste of orange juice. It was icy-cold and oh, so sweet and I held each sip in my mouth until it became warm because I was so loath to swallow. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Can you think of better synonyms for the word happy ? The innocent girl was brutally murdered. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What can you infer about the speaker from the description? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Homework Grid Autumn 1.11 1. Spelling Circle the incorrect spelling, then correct it. 2. Grammar and punctuation Create two complex sentences, suing the following words: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Dialect Frodo began to except his fate. Homework + Holiday _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Share + Enemy _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Type of word _______ _____________________________________ Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. I looked across the open grassland towards the house which dominated the view for kilometres around. My parents' country house. Seven bedrooms and five reception rooms for four people. What a waste. Four people in such a vast house - four lonely peas rolling about in a can. We were still some distance from it but it rose like an all-seeing giant above us. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Prioritise: What is the single most important sentence here? Explain your thinking. The rose smelled sweet and fragrant. If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here s what I think: the only reason I m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What can you infer about the house from the description? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Homework Grid Autumn 1.12 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add the capital letters in the correct places: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Definately Expectation erika and alex went to park farm for a dominoes pizza. Type of word _______ Definitely Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. My name is August, by the way. I won t describe what I look like. Whatever you re thinking, it s probably worse. Next week I start fifth grade. Since I ve never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely petrified. People think I haven t gone to school because of the way I look, but it s not that. It s because of all the surgeries I ve had. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Rank order the poems in order of which has had the greatest impact on you: Search for my tongue, Unrelated incidents, Futility. Explain your top choice. Slowly, cautiously, she leaned forward. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about August: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________
