Alberta Grade 7 Language Arts ELA - FULL YEAR BUNDLE - NEW 2023 Curriculum
FULL YEAR BUNDLE - Teaching made easy! This NO PREP bundle includes everything you need to teach the NEW 2023 Alberta Grade 7 Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum.
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Grade 7 - Alberta Language Curriculum – Vocabulary, Conventions, and Fluency. This resource is part of a program that covers all the general outcomes in the Grade 7 ELA curriculum. In this resource, we cover the specific outcomes related to vocabulary, conventions, and fluency. There are 399 pages that cover these specific outcomes.
Included in this unit are 30 weeks of ELA instruction, with weekly word lists that explicitly teach consonant clusters as well as vowel teams. Along with these Science of Reading principles, we have weaved in the skills and procedures students in grade 7 need, so they understand the specific outcomes in the ELA curriculum.
Included in this resource are the General Outcomes below:
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week, and what prefixes/suffixes/letter blends will be covered.
Some of the concepts covered:
- Suffixes: -ing, -ly, -able, -less, -ment, -ful, -ness, -tion, -ous, -y, -ize, -ship and many more
- Prefixes: un-, re-, dis-, pre-, ex-, in-, non-, sub-, inter-, anti-, mis-, super-, and many more
- Recognizing and fixing run-on sentences
- Using coordinating conjunctions in compound sentences
- Building complex sentences with subordinating conjunctions
- Use correct subject–verb agreement in sentences with compound subjects
- Understanding and applying correlative conjunctions
- Differentiating between simple, compound, and complex sentence structures
- Creating compound-complex sentences
- Comprehending and using imperative sentences, declarative, interrogative, exclamatory sentences
- Identify and use common subjective and objective forms of pronouns
- Introducing predicate nouns and predicate adjectives
- Exploring participles and participial phrases
- Enhancing writing with adverbial phrases
- Correctly placing commas after transitional words
- Utilizing commas for introductory phrases
- Expanding vocabulary using context clues
- Mastering frequently misspelled words
- Distinguish between formal and informal conventions of oral and written language
- Identify differences between standard English and slang
- Adjusting expression for different genres
- Performing with Reader’s Theatre: tone and pacing
- Strengthening fluency with increasingly challenging readings
- Learning the basics of capitalization and its advanced rules
- Applying punctuation: periods, question marks, colons for quotations
- Understanding semicolons and their advanced usage
- Enhancing writing with conjunctive adverbs
- Utilizing ellipses and dashes for effect
- Use quotation marks to identify information taken from secondary sources in own writing
- Expanding vocabulary with thesaurus and morphology skills
- Weekly fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
- Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
- Answer pages for all activities
Grade 7 - Alberta Language Curriculum – Writing. This resource covers all outcomes in the Alberta Language (ELA) Curriculum. There are 355 activity sheets that are aligned to cover the learning outcomes in the Alberta Language Curriculum. Included are 10 blocks of content, each covering a different text form. Within each block, the outcomes are taught.
This is a language program developed by a language teacher. We have included exemplars for students to use to formulate success criteria so they can improve their writing quality. Moreover, we’ve scaffolded the skills involved with producing quality writing to ensure all students can progress.
In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week.
Included in this resource are the General Outcomes below:
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
General Outcome 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to manage ideas and information.
General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
General Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Some of the concepts covered:
- Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, persuasive, comic strips, reports, etc.)
- Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
- Activity – Secret Agent Notes
- How to write a perfect paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body (supporting details), conclusion
- Essay writing – how to write a thesis statement
- Writing a 5-paragraph essay
- Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
- Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
- Plots and subplots
- Adding suspense, foreshadowing, and exaggeration (hyperbole) to stories
- Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
- Using quotations in narrative writing – dialogue
- Revision – using paragraphs appropriately and eliminating unnecessary repetition of words and ideas
- Activity – Story Swap Revision
- Understanding persuasive writing
- Activity – Being Persuasive: Debate
- Understanding bias in persuasive writing
- Assignment – advertising a new invention
- Expository text forms – reports, lists, problem/solution report, compare/contrast essay, cause and effect essay
- Writing a How-To-Guide
- Synthesizing multiple reports
- Writing a report – different types of bears and the importance of bees
- How to research effectively – trustworthy sources, using keywords
- Activity – Online Treasure Hunt
- Writing a problem/solution report
- Determining solutions to problems
- Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, Rhyming Poems, Acrostic Poems
- Assignment – writing a poetry children’s book
- Comic strips – onomatopoeia and illustrating graphic texts
- Assignment - creating an online comic strip
- Biographies – cross curricular connections: Louis Riel, Leif Erikson, and Laura Secord
- How to cite where we find research – bibliography
- Activity – Partner Biography/Bibliography Assignment
- Cursive writing package/booklet
- Answer pages for all activities
Grade 7 - Alberta Language Curriculum – Comprehension and Text Forms. This resource is part of a program that covers all the general outcomes in the Grade 7 ELA curriculum. In this resource, we cover the specific outcomes related to reading comprehension and text forms. There are 332 pages that cover these specific outcomes.
We’ve included a variety of activities, including independent reading responses, group activities, assignments, experiments, exemplars, and hands-on activities to keep your students engaged.
Included in this resource are the General Outcomes below:
General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.
General Outcome 5: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
In addition, we have included a full-year long range plan that outlines what concepts from the curriculum you will be teaching each week/block.
Some of the concepts covered:
- What is reading comprehension?
- Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
- During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
- After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, inferences, synthesizing, evaluating, visualizing
- Concept mapping and mental rehearsal
- Cultural text forms – creation stories and songs
- Plot and subplots
- Foreshadowing, suspense, subplots, flashbacks, and surprise endings in narratives
- Character analysis – decision making of characters, character traits
- Indigenous storytelling – values, rituals, ceremonies, architecture, art, and dance
- Cross-curricular connections – text forms related to themes in science and social studies (deforestation, structures)
- Adjusting reading rates: Learning to read at different speeds based on the text's difficulty
- Vocabulary in context: Learning new words through their use in texts
- Voice in letter writing
- Bias in letter writing, book reviews, and in persuasive writing
- Making inferences from letter writing
- Narratives – finding examples of literary devices: allegory, symbolism, and foreshadowing
- Sequencing a narrative – rearranging a plot
- Determining the causes and effects in narratives
- Implicit versus explicit evidence in persuasive texts
- Expository texts – informational reports
- Scanning texts to find specific information quickly
- Text patterns in cause-and-effect essays, problem-and-solution reports, five-paragraph essays, compare and contrast essays
- Identifying thesis statements found in reports and essays
- Synthesizing information in reports and essays
- Blog post – text patterns
- Identifying literary devices in poetry – allegory, foreshadowing, and symbolism
- Analyzing poems – haiku, limerick, acrostic, cinquain, and rhyming poetry
- Studying poetry written by Indigenous authors
- Explicit and implicit perspectives in book reviews
- Activity – detecting bias in online reviews
- Graphic texts – timelines, memes, comics, infographics, maps
- Biographies – Viola Desmond, Tecumseh, Bertha Clark Jones, Alexander Graham Bell, and Warren Buffet
- Answer pages for all activities
Grade 7 - New Alberta 2023 Language Curriculum – Oral Communication. This resource covers all skills and procedures in the organizing idea: Oral Communication (ELA). The 110-page unit includes lesson plans for the teacher, prompts for the students, planning pages, and reflection questions for students to consolidate their understanding.
Included in this unit are 31 activities that are interactive and engaging for grade 7 students. As students complete the activities, they will build on their oral communication skills, obtaining the learning outcome stated in the curriculum. There are several activities provided for each skill and procedure listed in the curriculum.
We are proud to include everything you need to complete these activities. For example, if an activity asks for a story to be read, we provide the story. We’ve also included all emotions, story starters, expressions, and plays (reader’s theatre) you need.
Some of the concepts covered:
- Activity: Word Swap Workshop
- Activity: Descriptive Relay Race
- Activity: Listening Relay
- Activity: Two Types of Listening
- Activity: Question Quest
- Activity: Inquisitive Minds - The Question-Asking Game
- Activity: "The Paraphrase Chain"
- Activity: Round Robin Brainstorming
- Activity: Non-Verbal Communication
- Activity: Cultural Charades
- Activity: Voice Modulation Mastery
- Activity: Supporting Opinions with Research
- Activity: Persuasive Speech Contest
- Activity: Instructional Challenge
- Activity: Socratic Seminar
- Activity: Debate Club
- Activity: Storytelling Circle
- Activity: Interview Role-Play
- Activity: Mind Mapping Group Activity
- Activity: Impromptu Speaking Game
- Activity: Podcast Detective
- Activity: Think-Pair-Share
- Activity: Constructive Feedback
- Activity: Feedback Fishbowl
- Activity: Feedback Carousel
- Activity: Group Presentation Relay
- Activity: Speech Swap
- Activity: Speech Makeover
- Activity: Formal vs. Informal Chats
- Activity: Clarity Courtroom
This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has everything you need to feel confident that you are covering the NEW Alberta Language Arts curriculum.