Year 8 skills in english

• Reading between the lines for implied meaning
• Analysing the effect of language devices and how they may create different meanings
• Explaining how attitudes and values are revealed in texts
• Understanding of how structure contributes to text organisation
• Varying writing to interest the reader
• Using a range of devices to create different effects
• Linking paragraphs to enhance coherency
• Using a more complex range of punctuation, spelling, sentence structure and paragraphing accurately
• Using rhetorical devices
• Being confident in a wide range of speaking situations
• Making significant contributions to class/group discussion
• Responding to others people's opinions
• Listening sensitively to others