Year 9

Year 9 English

Browse checked English videos, lessons, worksheets and practice for Year 9, organised by topic with clear source and content notes.

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• Extend And Apply Grammatical Knowledgegrammar rules relative clauses apostrophes and sentence types
• Explore vocabulary and grammarbuilding ambitious vocabulary and word connotations
• Check Understandingidentifying purpose and audience in a text
• Make Critical Text Comparisonscomparing two poems on a similar theme
• Support Comprehension Through Knowledgeunderstanding context in literature and non-fiction
• Understand Meaninganalysing meaning in poems and fiction extracts
• Use Inference And Evidenceusing inference and evidence in reading
• Explore spelling patterns and rulesspelling rules ie and ei words and dictionary skills
• Consider Purpose Of Own Writingwriting to inform advise and persuade
• Explore purpose and audiencewriting for a specific audience and purpose
• Use accurate grammar, punctuation and spellingcorrecting common grammar and punctuation errors
• Use Growing Knowledge To Support Writingusing retrieval skills and vocabulary in writing
• Read A Wide Range Of Textsreading a range of historical and literary texts
• Explore poetic conventionsidentifying poetic techniques alliteration and onomatopoeia
• Explore Plot, Setting And Characters In Of Mice And Menanalyse plot setting and characters in Of Mice and Men
• Explore vocabularyexploring language choices in non-fiction texts
• Summarise and organise materials, ideas and argumentsorganising arguments and using connectives
• Explore literary and rhetorical devicessimiles metaphors and rhetorical devices
• Amend Writing To Improve Effectivenessimproving vocabulary choices in writing