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English Language Arts — Grade 7
Goal 6, Objective 6.01
Resources aligned to this objective
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- The ABC's of the Three Little Pigs
- This lesson uses a familiar fairy tale to teach writing. It is designed to emphasize using varied sentence patterns in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Penny Canipe.
- 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.
- Elements of a Fable
- In this lesson students will examine the elements of a fable. Students will use their understanding of fable elements to create an original fable and present it in dramatic form.
This lesson includes modifications and alternative assessments for Advanced Limited English Proficient students. - Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Kate Boyce.
- Grandparent Interview
- Students will interview a grandparent and write a news article based upon their interview. They will also do research on historical events to develop questions to be asked during the interview.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Teachers Connect.
- Issues, we've all got them: Language arts/visual arts integration
- Students will learn how to deal positively with social issues important in their lives through personal investigation of social issues addressed in literature and art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and English Language Development)
- By Runell Carpenter.
- Learn New Words Using Context.
- With guided practice students will use context clues to determine meaning of unfamiliar words in short passages. When students have completed the practice activities, they will read a newspaper or magazine article, picking out unfamiliar words and using context clues to decide what the word means. As a group activity they will share the article, the words, and their meanings with the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 English Language Arts)
- By Betty DeLuca.
- Rest in Peace Dead Words!
- “Dead words,” by my definition, are words students “use to death” in their writing samples. As Language Arts teachers, we can generate a list of such words a mile long. Examples would include: pretty, nice, bad, a lot, and good. This cooperative learning activity is designed to eliminate those repetitious words by providing students with a word bank/wall they can refer to when given a writing assignment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Cynthia Cook.
- Which Word Is It?
- Students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words using Context Clues, a dictionary, and structural analysis within a game format.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts)
- By Donna Harkey.
Lesson plans on the web
- ABC bookmaking builds vocabulary in the content areas
- Engages and motivates students in building content area vocabulary through the creation of ABC books. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Action is character: Exploring character traits with adjectives
- Students “become” one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Alphabiography project: Totally you
- In this lesson, students write alphabiographies recording an event, person, object, or feeling associated with each letter of the alphabet after reading Totally Joe by James Howe. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Analyzing advice as an introduction to Shakespeare
- Students read and analyze the advice given in Mary Schmich's 1997 Chicago Tribune column “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young,” as an introduction to studying the advice that Polonius gives to Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Beyond the story: A Dickens of a party
- Students understand the values and customs that Dickens' characters represented in Victorian society by virtually attending a 19th-Century party as a character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Book report alternative: Comic strips and cartoon squares
- This lesson incorporates student handouts and a comic creator interactive to encourage student creativity and expression. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Book report alternative: Creating a childhood for a character
- In this lesson, students examine the character traits of an adult character in a book they have read, create a childhood for the character, and describe that childhood in the form of a short story, journal entry, or time capsule letter. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Book report alternative: Summary, symbol, and analysis in bookmarks
- Students practice summarizing, recognizing symbols, and writing reviews—all while writing for an authentic audience. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Book reviews, annotation, and web technology
- Students will write a group book review, write short research papers as annotations for their reviews, and post the review to the web, demonstrating the synchronicity of hypertext. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Campaigning for fair use: Public service announcements on copyright awareness
- In this lesson that introduces issues of fair usage and copyright laws, students create audio public service announcements that can be broadcast over the school's public address system or published as podcasts on the Internet. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Choose your own adventure: A Hypertext writing experience
- In this lesson that focuses on reading and writing, students discuss various stories and plan their own adventure story. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
