Nova Scotia Grade 7 Language Arts ELA - FULL YEAR BUNDLE
FULL YEAR BUNDLE - Teaching made easy! This NO PREP bundle includes everything you need to teach the Nova Scotia Grade 7 Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum.
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Grade 7 – Nova Scotia English Language Arts Curriculum (ELA) – Conventions, Spelling, and Fluency. This 467-page resource covers all outcomes and indicators related to conventions, spelling, and fluency in the Nova Scotia Language Curriculum (ELA).
Included in this unit are 30 weeks of ELA instruction, with weekly word lists that explicitly teach vocabulary and a new affix – prefix/suffix each week. Within the 30 weeks of lessons, we have weaved in the outcomes and indicators students in grade 7 need to learn while working with these word lists.
Included in this resource are the indicators within the outcomes below:
Reading and Viewing – spelling lists that include fluency passages, quizzes, and word work
Writing and Representing – learners demonstrate an understanding of a variety of writing conventions
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
- 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
- Shades of meaning – project (pro-ject versus proj-ect)
- Text and social media acronyms
- Expanding vocabulary with thesaurus and morphology skills
- Revision skills – practicing how to revise and improve writing
- Weekly fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
- Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
- Answer pages for all activities
Grade 7 – Nova Scotia English Language Arts Curriculum (ELA) – Conventions, Spelling, and Fluency. This 467-page resource covers all outcomes and indicators related to conventions, spelling, and fluency in the Nova Scotia Language Curriculum (ELA).
Included in this unit are 30 weeks of ELA instruction, with weekly word lists that explicitly teach vocabulary and a new affix – prefix/suffix each week. Within the 30 weeks of lessons, we have weaved in the outcomes and indicators students in grade 7 need to learn while working with these word lists.
Included in this resource are the indicators within the outcomes below:
Reading and Viewing – spelling lists that include fluency passages, quizzes, and word work
Writing and Representing – learners demonstrate an understanding of a variety of writing conventions
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
- 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
- Shades of meaning – project (pro-ject versus proj-ect)
- Text and social media acronyms
- Expanding vocabulary with thesaurus and morphology skills
- Revision skills – practicing how to revise and improve writing
- Weekly fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
- Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
- Answer pages for all activities
Grade 7 – Nova Scotia English Language Arts Curriculum (ELA) – Writing. This resource covers all outcomes and indicators related to writing in the Nova Scotia English Language Curriculum (ELA).
There are 480 activity sheets that are aligned to cover the outcomes in the Nova Scotia Language Curriculum. Included are 10 blocks of content, each covering a different text form. Within each block, the outcomes and indicators are taught.
This is a language program developed by a language teacher. We have included exemplars/mentor texts 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.
Included in this resource are the outcomes within the goals below:
Writing and Representing – write to present ideas, opinions, and experiences in a variety of text forms.
Writing Process – use all stages of the writing process to create well thought out and revised writing pieces.
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
- 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
- Collecting data by completing a survey to enhance a persuasive argument
- Expository text forms – reports, lists, problem/solution report, compare/contrast essay, cause and effect essay
- Writing a How-To-Guide
- Multimedia how-to-guide: taking pictures to represent and support text in 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
- Inquiry group project – working collaboratively to choose a topic and formulate questions to guide their research
- Cursive writing package/booklet
- Answer pages for all activities
Grade 7 – Nova Scotia English Language Arts Curriculum (ELA) – Oral Language. This 145-page resource covers all outcomes and indicators related to oral language, covering the Listening and Speaking outcome in the Nova Scotia Language Curriculum (ELA).
Included in this unit are 43 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 outcomes stated in the curriculum. There is at least one activity provided for each indicator 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: Listening Relay
- Activity: Feedback Fishbowl
- Activity: Question Quest
- Activity: Inquisitive Minds - The Question-Asking Game
- Activity: Two Types of Listening
- Activity: Musical Chairs with a Twist
- Activity: Keyword Checklist
- Activity: Instructional Challenge
- Activity: Podcast Detective
- Activity: "The Paraphrase Chain"
- Activity: Respectful Language Game
- Activity: Word Swap Workshop
- Activity: Supporting Opinions with Research
- Activity: Debate Club
- Activity: Interview Role-Play
- Activity: Persuasive Speech Contest
- Activity: Clarity Courtroom
- Activity: Storytelling Circle
- Activity: Think-Pair-Share
- Activity: Descriptive Relay Race
- Activity: Round Robin Brainstorming
- Activity: Podcast Project
- Activity: Socratic Seminar
- Activity: Impromptu Speaking Game
- Activity: Voice Modulation Mastery
- Activity: Formal vs. Informal Chats
- Activity: Feedback Carousel
- Activity: Constructive Feedback
- Activity: Collaborative Tower Construction
- Activity: Creating a Historical Newspaper
- Activity: Group Presentation Relay
- Activity: Transforming an Excerpt into Text Messages
- Activity: Mood Reader
- Activity: Non-Verbal Communication
- Activity: Cultural Charades
- Activity: Gestures Speak Louder
- Activity: The Community Council
- Activity: Mind Mapping Group Activity
- Activity: Speech Makeover
- Activity: Speech Swap
- Activity: The Justice Puzzle
- Activity: Summarize and State Your View
- Activity: Detecting Bias in News Reports
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 Nova Scotia Language Arts curriculum.