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Language Arts - 7th Grade
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Standard 1
(Reading): Students will use vocabulary development and an understanding of text elements and structures to comprehend literary and informational grade level text.
Objective 3
(Comprehension of Literary Text): Comprehend literature using elements of narrative and poetic text.
 
  • 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.
  • 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 Statue of Liberty
    In this lesson, students learn about the effort to convince a skeptical American public to contribute to the effort to erect a pedestal and to bring the Statue of Liberty to New York. The activities in this lesson guide students through an investigation of primary historical documents and an analysis of the poem "The New Colossus," written by the nineteenth-century poet Emma Lazarus. From this page, teachers can access all the materials needed to complete the lesson.

 

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