Language Arts - 7th Grade

• 103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading
  These tips from Jim Burke's "The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession" can be applied to a wide range of grade and ability levels.
• CNN Student News
  CNN Student News web site provides news for students and resources for teachers on how to use the site. Cross-curricular ideas are available for all subject areas.
• Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
  In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, collaborative strategic reading (CSR) is initially presented to students through modeling and whole-class instruction. To facilitate comprehension during and after reading, students apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. Graphic organizers are used for scaffolding of these strategies while students work together in cooperative groups. NOTE: This is useful for struggling readers but does not tie directly to the CCSS.
• Media Awareness Network
  The Media Awareness Network (MNet) is home to one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources. MNet’s work is based on the belief that to be functionally literate in the world today-–to be able to "read" the messages that inform, entertain and sell to us daily-–young people need critical thinking skills. To that end, Mnet examines a wide range of media, including television, film, video games, newspapers, advertising and popular music. The Educators section includes teaching units and a variety of supporting materials.
• Reading Comprehension Connection
  Students: Interactive text comprehension includes sentences, reading for understanding and reading strategy. NOTE: This website is specifically focused on ESL students.
• Teaching Comprehension with Jeff Wilhelm
  From Scholastic, here is a collection of guidelines, checklists, and assessment tools to start think-aloud strategies with your students from Jeff Wilhelm's book Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies.
• The Online Books
  Listing over 25,000 free books on the Internet.