3 free informative writing resources for Year 8: 3 worksheets. Answers included.
Reports, explanations and procedures. Year 8 extends algebra to expanding brackets and two-step equations, adds percentages increase and decrease, ratio and rates, index laws and congruence.
Students will practise: ranking modal verbs and adverbs as high, medium or low modality; matching the certainty of a claim to the strength of the evidence; distinguishing objective statements from subjective opinions; rewriting informal, personal sentences in an objective, formal register; editing a report for formal, impersonal language; identifying the main idea of each paragraph in a source; distinguishing key points from supporting detail; paraphrasing without changing the meaning.
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Students learn to control how certain they sound in formal writing by choosing high, medium or low modality, and to match their certainty…
Students learn to use information from a source without copying it. Working with an original article about bees, they identify the main…
Students learn how informative writers support each point with evidence and explain it rather than dropping it in. They classify evidence…
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Reports, explanations and procedures. At Year 8, our resources focus on: ranking modal verbs and adverbs as high, medium or low modality; matching the certainty of a claim to the strength of the evidence; distinguishing objective statements from subjective opinions; rewriting informal, personal sentences in an objective, formal register.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.
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