Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
- Start a Blog (Book)
- Adverbs (Book)
- Writing Winning Reports and Essays (Book)
- Putting it in Writing (Book)
- Been There, Done That (Book)
- Seeing the Blue Between (Book)
- The Young Writer’s Companion (Book)
- Book review writing (Website)
- Imagine that! (Website)
- Graphic Organizer (PMI) (Website)
- Mind map (Website)
- Cause and effect (Website)
- Story Map and Lessons (Website)
- The Story Starter (Website)
- The Story Kitchen (Website)
Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
- Drawing Words and Writing Pictures (Book)
- Extraordinary Short Story Writing (Book)
- Live Writing (Book)
- Writing Stories (Book)
- Haiku Activities (Book)
- Grammar Bytes Exercises (Website)
- Basic Grammar Rules (Website)
- Relative pronoun (Website)
- Runny’s Hind Heart (YouTube)
- How to make your writing suspenseful (YouTube)
- Mad libs (App)
Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;
- Writing Magic (Book)
- Writing with Style (Book)
- In Print! (Book)
- Word Hippo (Website)
- Revision and Editing (YouTube)
- The Proofreading Professor (YouTube)
- Four Ways to Identify a Theme (YouTube)
- Short Story Elements (YouTube)
Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
- Complete EnglishSmart (Book)
- How Writer’s Work (Book)
- What’s Copyright? (YouTube)
- The Writing Process (Youtube)