Alberta Grade 7 Language Arts ELA - FULL YEAR BUNDLE - NEW 2023 Curriculum

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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.

BOTH GOOGLE SLIDES AND PDF VERSIONS INCLUDED!

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.