Grade 7 - Conventions & Vocabulary - BC Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 7 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - BC Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 7 Language Conventions and Vocabulary unit in the BC Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all learning standards and elaborations related to conventions, reading strategies, syntax and sentence fluency in the British Columbia Curriculum (ELA). The 424 pages teach the Big Ideas, learning standards, and elaborations found in the curriculum.

Included in this unit are 30 weeks of ELA instruction, with weekly word lists that explicitly teach different prefixes/suffixes each week. Along with these Science of Reading principles, we have weaved in the learning standards students in grade 7 need to learn while working with these word lists.

Included in this resource are the learning standards below:

Conventions – common practices in all standard punctuation use, in capitalization, and in Canadian spelling.

Reading Strategies – using contextual clues; using phonics and word structure; visualizing; questioning; predicting; previewing text; summarizing; making inferences.

Syntax and sentence fluency – use of a mix of simple, compound, and complex sentences; correct pronoun use; subject-verb agreement; use of transitional words; and awareness of run-on sentences and sentence fragments.

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
• Reading strategies: predicting, summarizing, making inferences, questioning, and visualizing activities
• 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
• Using a mix of sentences: simple, compound, complex, 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
• Regional dialects: standard Canadian English versus American English
• Distinguish between formal and informal conventions of oral and written language
• Identify differences between standard English and slang
• Adjusting expression for different genres
• 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
• 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

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 7 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - Google Lesson Slides - BC Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit, Grade 7, BC Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals

- Discussion Questions

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.