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: Writing Stories from Real Life (Book)
- Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets (Book)
- The Young Writer’s Companion (Book)
- Book Review Writing (Website)
- PMI: Plus, Minus, Interesting Strategy (Website)
- Mind Maps & Lotus Charts (Website)
- Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer Handout (Website)
- Story Map: Organizing and Summarzing (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: Making Comics, Manga, Graphic Novels and Beyond (Book)
- Extraordinary Short Story Writing (Book)
- Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words (Book)
- Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly (Book)
- Writing Stories: Fantastic Fiction from Start to Finish (Book)
- Haiku Activities: Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids (Book)
- Runny’s Hind Heart (YouTube)
- How to Make Your Writing Suspenseful (YouTube)
- Exercises at Grammar Bytes (Website)
- Grammar Rules (Website)
- Relative Pronouns Exercise (Website)
- 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 with Style (Book)
- In Print!: 40 Cool Publishing Products for Kids (Book)
- Revision and Editing (YouTube)
- The Proofreading Professor (YouTube)
- Four Ways to Identify a Theme (YouTube)
- Short Story Elements (YouTube)
- Word Hippo (Website)
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: Grade 7 (Book)
- How Writer’s Work: Finding a Process that Works for You (Book)
- What’s Copyright? (YouTube)
- Copyright Basics with Jim the Librarian (YouTube)
- Introduction to the Writing Process (YouTube)