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7th Grade Writing Skills
Prior Standards Implementation
The standards listed below have been replaced by a newer set of standards.
Please go to Current 7th Grade Language Arts Standards for current resources.
Writing
- Bibliographic Blunders (6-8) use note cards to collect information
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- Cause and Effect Chain - graphic organizer
- Graphic Organizers - five main types of organizers
Making an Argument: Effective use of Transition Words - Lesson plan; "explore and understand the use of transition words in context and write their own persuasive essay using transition words"
- A chart of the transitional devices - also called conjunctive adverbs or adverbial conjunctions
- Transitional Devices (Connecting Words) - Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab
- Transitional Devices - transitional guides are connectives (symbols,words, phrases; sometimes whole sentences and paragraphs) that make possible a smooth "passing over" from one idea to the next.
Using Transitions by Ruth Luman - Interactive PowerPoint show
- Using Transitions - Gap-fill exercise
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- Writing Academic Essays - transition words
Seeing Integration from Different Viewpoints - lesson uses The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Persuade Me - Using junk mail from home, students will be able to recognize and use persuasive techniques.
- Trailblazing Conclusions (6-8) develop a sense of ending by using closure and thought-provoking statements
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- Making an Outline - interactive outline maker
- Outline - Interactive outline maker
- Outline - information on how to map out an outline.
- Personal Narrative - writer's model
- Sample descriptive essay - advantages and disadvantages of a disability.
- Writing an Editorial -given a topic, create a paper on your position.
- Tips and Examples for Writing Thesis Statements - from the OWL at Purdue
- Trailblazing Introductions (6-8) develop a sense of beginning by using strong leads
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- Sentence Variety - explanation with examples.
- Sentence Variety - a worksheet
- Information Elimination (6-8) model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing
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Review Help
Released tests
- FCAT Sample Reading Test - [2008] sample questions and test taking tips
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- FCAT Sample Answer Book - [2008]
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- Texas end-of-year reading test from 2003
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FCAT Sample Test Book
- The FCAT Sample Test Books are designed to help students become familiar with FCAT (Florida) by providing helpful hints and offering practice answering questions in different formats. Half of this document is math and half is reading.
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