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

Nouns
1. Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
2. Form and use irregular plural nouns BETA
3. Form and use plurals of compound nouns BETA
4. Abstract and concrete nouns BETA
5. Collective nouns BETA
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
Modality
1. Identify modal verbs BETA
2. Degrees of certainty with modals BETA
3. Modals for obligation and permission BETA
4. Choose the right modal for context BETA
5. How modality affects meaning and tone BETA
Nominalisation
1. Convert verbs to nouns BETA
2. Convert adjectives to nouns BETA
3. Identify nominalisation in texts BETA
4. Rewrite sentences using nominalisation BETA
Cohesion and Text Flow
1. Identify cohesive devices BETA
2. Use transitional expressions BETA
3. Reference chains and pronoun clarity BETA
4. Fix unclear pronoun references BETA
5. Choose the right connective BETA
Sentence Combining
1. Combine sentences using coordination BETA
2. Combine sentences using subordination BETA
3. Combine sentences using appositives BETA
4. Combine sentences using participle phrases BETA
5. Rewrite choppy sentences BETA
Register & Formality
1. Identify formal vs informal language BETA
2. Rewrite informal text to formal BETA
3. Rewrite formal text to informal BETA
4. Choose appropriate register for audience BETA
5. Identify inappropriate register in context BETA
Proofreading & Editing
1. Find the spelling error BETA
2. Find the punctuation error BETA
3. Find the grammar error BETA
4. Find the sentence structure error BETA
5. Edit a paragraph for multiple errors BETA
Embedded Clauses
1. Identify embedded clauses BETA
2. Add embedded clauses BETA
3. Reduce clauses to phrases BETA
Bias & Persuasive Language
1. Identify loaded and emotive language BETA
2. Identify weasel words and hedging BETA
3. Compare neutral vs biased reporting BETA
4. Identify persuasive techniques BETA
Paraphrasing & Summarising
1. Choose the best paraphrase BETA
2. Identify poor paraphrasing BETA
3. Summarise a paragraph BETA
Sentence Structure
1. Identify sentence types BETA
2. Identify complete subject and predicate BETA
3. Identify simple and compound subjects BETA
4. Identify simple and compound predicates BETA
5. Identify dependent and independent clauses BETA
6. Is it a phrase or a clause? BETA
7. Identify appositives and appositive phrases BETA
8. Simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? BETA
9. Combine sentences using relative clauses BETA
Pronouns
1. Identify pronoun antecedents BETA
2. Use subject and object pronouns BETA
3. Compound subjects and objects with pronouns BETA
4. Use reflexive and intensive pronouns BETA
5. Correct vague pronoun references BETA
6. Compound subjects with "I" and "me" BETA
7. Relative pronouns BETA
Verbs (Additional)
1. Subject-verb agreement BETA
2. Indefinite pronoun-verb agreement BETA
3. Inappropriate shifts in verb tense BETA
4. Identify transitive and intransitive verbs BETA
5. Identify verb moods BETA
6. Perfect verb tenses BETA
7. Progressive verb tenses BETA
Adjectives and Adverbs
1. Comparative and superlative adjectives BETA
2. Good, better, best; bad, worse, worst BETA
3. Comparative and superlative adverbs BETA
4. Well, better, best; badly, worse, worst BETA
5. Order of adjectives BETA
Punctuation
1. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses BETA
2. Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists BETA
3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives BETA
4. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately BETA
5. Commas with coordinate adjectives BETA
6. Using dashes BETA
7. Using colons BETA
8. Using brackets (parentheses) BETA
9. Commas with introductory elements BETA
10. Commas in compound sentences BETA
11. Capitalisation rules BETA
12. Apostrophes for possession and contraction BETA
Prefixes and Suffixes
1. Words with prefix pre- BETA
2. Words with prefix re- BETA
3. Words with prefix sub- BETA
4. Words with prefix mis- BETA
5. Words with negative prefixes BETA
6. Words with suffix -ful BETA
7. Words with suffix -less BETA
8. Words with suffix -able and -ible BETA
Greek and Latin Roots
1. Use words as clues to root meanings BETA
2. Greek and Latin root meanings BETA
3. Determine word meanings from roots BETA
4. Apply Greek and Latin roots in context BETA
Vocabulary and Word Relationships
1. Synonyms in context BETA
2. Antonyms in context BETA
3. Analogies challenge BETA
4. Positive and negative connotation BETA
5. Form compound words BETA
6. Domain-specific vocabulary BETA
7. Commonly confused words BETA
8. Context clues for word meaning BETA
Writing Skills
1. Using parallel structure BETA
2. Remove redundant words or phrases BETA
3. Misplaced modifiers BETA
4. Identify misplaced or dangling modifier BETA
5. Are the modifiers used correctly? BETA
Literary Devices
1. Use personification BETA
2. Interpret figures of speech BETA
3. Classify figures of speech BETA
4. Allusions and their sources BETA
5. Identify author's purpose BETA
6. Distinguish facts from opinions BETA
7. Comparing tone across passages BETA
8. Identifying bias in texts BETA

Year 8 English Skills () « All Years

Nouns

Verbs

Modality

Nominalisation

Cohesion and Text Flow

Sentence Combining

Register & Formality

Proofreading & Editing

Embedded Clauses

Bias & Persuasive Language

Paraphrasing & Summarising

Sentence Structure

Pronouns

Verbs (Additional)

Adjectives and Adverbs

Punctuation

Prefixes and Suffixes

Greek and Latin Roots

Vocabulary and Word Relationships

Writing Skills

Literary Devices

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