Grade 7 - Writing Unit - Alberta Language ELA - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

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

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 7 - Writing Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Writing Unit, Grade 7, New 2023 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.