Grade 7 - Manitoba Language - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 7 Manitoba 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 workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Composition (Writing) Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are 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
• Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• Plots and subplots
• Adding suspense, foreshadowing, and exaggeration (hyperbole) to stories
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Using quotations in narrative writing – dialogue
• Characterization – creating funny, mysterious, fantasy, and adventurous characters
• Character development – describe how characters change over time due to big events
• 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
• Reconstructing texts – translating texts from one form to another – e.g., letter to news report, infographic to story
• Cursive writing package/booklet
• Answer pages for all activities

Reading Comprehension Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is reading comprehension?
• Comprehension Practice – Refocusing / Re-engaging
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, bias
• Implicit and explicit perspectives in letter writing
• Voice in writing – use of cohesive ties and different sentence structures
• Narratives – use of figurative language: personification, similes, metaphors, anthropomorphism, humour, and imagery
• Perspective in narratives – first-person, second-person, and third-person and advantages/disadvantages of each
• Narratives – sequencing multiple plots in a story and explaining cause and effect
• Science fiction story - the use of flash-forwards in narratives
• Story genres – fantasy, humour, and adventure
• Narrative structure – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• Indigenous Storywork – 7 Principles: respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, synergy
• Prediction story activity – finishing a story using strong predictions
• Cross-curricular connections – text forms related to themes in science and social studies (government, human body)
• Character analysis – explain the decisions made by characters and analyze their character traits
• Story – Character Identification And Comparison
• Round vs. flat characters - explore differences in character types
• Persuasive writing – using critical thinking skills to determine bias
• Finding implicit and explicit evidence in persuasive texts
• Text features in reports – headings, subheadings, bold words, hyperlinks, captions, tables, graphs, etc.
• Photo essay - analyze a photo essay
• Summarizing reports – determining the main idea and supporting details
• Activity – group work summarizing
• Expository texts – how to guides
• Use of graphs, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Propaganda – Critical Analysis
• Report – Justice, Equity And Fairness
• Literary devices used in poetry – humour and imagery
• Assignment – finding poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, and rhyming poems
• Bias in book reviews
• Reading different styles (voices) in book reviews
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• How images, graphics, and visuals contribute to biographies
• Text features in biographies – using a glossary and a preface to understand a biography
• Louis Riel, Terry Fox, and Albert Einstein biographies with prefaces and glossaries
• Metacognitive strategies: reading tracking charts and reading goals
• Answer pages for all activities

Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are 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
• Formal and informal language – slang, social media texts, academic language
• Reconstructing texts – changing a news article into a short story or a formal text message into an informal one
• 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 - Google Lesson Slides - Manitoba Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 7, Manitoba 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

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.