Year 8 English Skills () « All Years

Australian & NZ curriculum aligned. Master each skill by earning 10 stars across 3 difficulty levels.

  1. Nouns

    1. Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
    2. Form and use irregular plural nouns
    3. Form and use plurals of compound nouns
    4. Abstract and concrete nouns
    5. Collective nouns

  2. Verbs

    1. Identify active and passive voice
    2. Complete the sentence in active voice
    3. Identify participles and what they modify
    4. Identify gerunds and their functions
    5. Select an infinitive or infinitive phrase

  3. Modality

    1. Identify modal verbs
    2. Degrees of certainty with modals
    3. Modals for obligation and permission
    4. Choose the right modal for context
    5. How modality affects meaning and tone

  4. Nominalisation

    1. Convert verbs to nouns
    2. Convert adjectives to nouns
    3. Identify nominalisation in texts
    4. Rewrite sentences using nominalisation

  5. Cohesion and Text Flow

    1. Identify cohesive devices
    2. Use transitional expressions
    3. Reference chains and pronoun clarity
    4. Fix unclear pronoun references
    5. Choose the right connective

  6. Sentence Combining

    1. Combine sentences using coordination
    2. Combine sentences using subordination
    3. Combine sentences using appositives
    4. Combine sentences using participle phrases
    5. Rewrite choppy sentences

  7. Register & Formality

    1. Identify formal vs informal language
    2. Rewrite informal text to formal
    3. Rewrite formal text to informal
    4. Choose appropriate register for audience
    5. Identify inappropriate register in context

  8. Proofreading & Editing

    1. Find the spelling error
    2. Find the punctuation error
    3. Find the grammar error
    4. Find the sentence structure error
    5. Edit a paragraph for multiple errors

  9. Embedded Clauses

    1. Identify embedded clauses
    2. Add embedded clauses
    3. Reduce clauses to phrases

  10. Bias & Persuasive Language

    1. Identify loaded and emotive language
    2. Identify weasel words and hedging
    3. Compare neutral vs biased reporting
    4. Identify persuasive techniques

  11. Paraphrasing & Summarising

    1. Choose the best paraphrase
    2. Identify poor paraphrasing
    3. Summarise a paragraph

  12. Sentence Structure

    1. Identify sentence types
    2. Identify complete subject and predicate
    3. Identify simple and compound subjects
    4. Identify simple and compound predicates
    5. Identify dependent and independent clauses
    6. Is it a phrase or a clause?
    7. Identify appositives and appositive phrases
    8. Simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
    9. Combine sentences using relative clauses

  13. Pronouns

    1. Identify pronoun antecedents
    2. Use subject and object pronouns
    3. Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
    4. Use reflexive and intensive pronouns
    5. Correct vague pronoun references
    6. Compound subjects with "I" and "me"
    7. Relative pronouns

  14. Verbs (Additional)

    1. Subject-verb agreement
    2. Indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
    3. Inappropriate shifts in verb tense
    4. Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
    5. Identify verb moods
    6. Perfect verb tenses
    7. Progressive verb tenses

  15. Adjectives and Adverbs

    1. Comparative and superlative adjectives
    2. Good, better, best; bad, worse, worst
    3. Comparative and superlative adverbs
    4. Well, better, best; badly, worse, worst
    5. Order of adjectives

  16. Punctuation

    1. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
    2. Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
    3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives
    4. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
    5. Commas with coordinate adjectives
    6. Using dashes
    7. Using colons
    8. Using brackets (parentheses)
    9. Commas with introductory elements
    10. Commas in compound sentences
    11. Capitalisation rules
    12. Apostrophes for possession and contraction

  17. Prefixes and Suffixes

    1. Words with prefix pre-
    2. Words with prefix re-
    3. Words with prefix sub-
    4. Words with prefix mis-
    5. Words with negative prefixes
    6. Words with suffix -ful
    7. Words with suffix -less
    8. Words with suffix -able and -ible

  18. Greek and Latin Roots

    1. Use words as clues to root meanings
    2. Greek and Latin root meanings
    3. Determine word meanings from roots
    4. Apply Greek and Latin roots in context

  19. Vocabulary and Word Relationships

    1. Synonyms in context
    2. Antonyms in context
    3. Analogies challenge
    4. Positive and negative connotation
    5. Form compound words
    6. Domain-specific vocabulary
    7. Commonly confused words
    8. Context clues for word meaning

  20. Writing Skills

    1. Using parallel structure
    2. Remove redundant words or phrases
    3. Misplaced modifiers
    4. Identify misplaced or dangling modifier
    5. Are the modifiers used correctly?

  21. Literary Devices

    1. Use personification
    2. Interpret figures of speech
    3. Classify figures of speech
    4. Allusions and their sources
    5. Identify author's purpose
    6. Distinguish facts from opinions
    7. Comparing tone across passages
    8. Identifying bias in texts

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