Grade 7 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Alberta Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 7 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Alberta Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 7 Reading Comprehension unit in the Alberta 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 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

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 7 - Reading Comprehension Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Reading Comprehension, Grade 7, Alberta 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.