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Information Skills — Grade 7

Goal 5, Objective 5.01

Goal 5

The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.

Objective 5.01

Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (e.g., print, multimedia).

Resources aligned to this objective

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Asian, African, or Australian Inventors & Inventions
The lesson integrates both Social Studies and Language Arts in a research and a creative writing component. The student will further understand inventors or inventions from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the focused continents in the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum, as well as have the opportunity to develop his/her writing, reading, and oral communication skills. The project also incorporates mathematics with an emphasis on percentages and graphing.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Mathematics)
By Jeff Rachlin and Melissa Reid.
Birds of a feather, an interdisciplinary unit: Language Arts wing
This lesson, which features Mark Twain's “Jim Baker's Blue-jay Yarn,” is part of an interdisciplinary unit on birds that contains math/science and language arts components. In the language arts wing, students will explore dialects and personification through this very entertaining tall tale full of the antics of talking blue-jays.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and English Language Development)
By Janet Fore.
I, the basket: Writing a first-person story as an inanimate object
In this interdisciplinary lesson for grade seven, students explore the first-person point of view through children's literature and images of Nepal. Students exhibit their understanding of first-person narrative by writing a children's story from the perspective of an inanimate object.
Format: (grade 7 Information Skills, Social Studies, and English Language Arts)
By Edie McDowell.

Lesson plans on the web

A picture's worth a thousand words: From image to detailed narrative
Students will view a picture that tells a story and then brainstorm words and ideas about the image. They will then write a story that gives the background of the image or extends details on what has happened. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Information Skills and English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE