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Understand meaning in Year 7 English

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Focus on understanding meaning in poetry and prose. Start with “Analyse How Dickens Presents Poverty in A Christmas Carol”, then explain the idea in your own words.

Year 7 learners practise understanding meaning in poetry and prose.

The activities include Analyse How Dickens Presents Poverty in A Christmas Carol, Explore Poetry: 'The Eagle', Explore the Book 'Holes' by Louis Sachar Chapters 29-35, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching-practice, teaching, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

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  • Analyse How Dickens Presents Poverty in A Christmas Carol
  • Explore Poetry: 'The Eagle'
  • Explore the Book 'Holes' by Louis Sachar Chapters 29-35
  • Explore the Use of Language in the Poem Summer Images
  • Explore the Use of Personification
  • Find Information From a Text About the Cratchit Family From 'A Christmas Carol'
  • Understand Dickens' Intentions in His description of Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol'
  • Understand the Difference Between a Simile and a Metaphor

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'The Eagle' Tennyson Poem Analysis

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Recognising Similes and Metaphors

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LearnBBC Bitesize

Analysing poems

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LearnPoetry Foundation

The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Holes Chapter Chatter Pack

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Summer Images by John Clare

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LearnBBC Bitesize

What is personification?

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What is inference?

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