English Language Arts Grades 7-8 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (7-8.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 7-8.R.3:

Mastered in grade 5.

• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Present Continuous Tense, Times, Dates & Numbers, Review of Consonants and Vowels, Review of Articles (Lesson 4)
  This lesson teaches Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Present Continuous Tense, Times, Dates & Numbers, Review of Consonants and Vowels, Review of Articles. A countable noun is anything that is large, you can count how many, or you can separate the items. We are going to look at these countable nouns, because they can have a singular or a plural including countable nouns with an es and s, ending and a consonant with a y at the end. A countable noun is something that is large, meaning you can see or identify the different ones. An uncountable noun is something that is too small to count. For example, water. Can you count water? You cannot. Water is an uncountable noun. WeÕll look at the words we use to identify, how much or how many of a noun when the noun is uncountable. An article is a, an, or the. You always have to have an article when you are looking at singular nouns, countable or uncountable. From there weÕll talk about how much or how many and learn about numbers and dates and the days of the week. Finally weÕll make the present continuous tense with the verb ÒbeÓ and look at ÒsentencesÓ.
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Present Simple Tense Sentence Forms (Positive, Negative, Question), Contractions (Does Not/Doesn't, Is Not/Isn't), Pronunciation (Voiced and Voiceless Sounds, Words Endings (S, CH, IZ) (Lesson 3)
  This lesson teaches Present Simple Tense Sentence Forms (Positive, Negative, Question), Contractions (Does Not/Doesn't, Is Not/Isn't), Pronunciation (Voiced and Voiceless Sounds, Words Endings (S, CH, IZ).
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Review of the Present Simple Tense with Irregular Verbs, Present Simple Tense vs. Present Continuous Tense (why are they different?) and Possessive Adjectives (Lesson 1)
  In this lesson, we're going to look very closely at grammar. We'll look at the present simple tense and the present continuous tense and compare them. When specifically do we use each one and why? The present simple tense, we use for habits, routines, everyday, often. We make the present simple tense by adding an S or ES to the he, she or it, singular person. The present continuous tense, we use for something that is right now. We make the present continuous tense with the verb B plus the main verb ending in ING. Next we'll also look at possessive adjectives. This lesson will teach you how to show belonging to you.
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Spelling Rules, (Using I after E, dropping the final E, changing a final Y to I, add es, doubling a final consonant Ð ing, ed), Review of Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns, Upper/lower case, Identifiers, Present simple tense, Present continuous tense, Vowels & Consonants, Prepositions of Place, Forming Sentences (Lesson 5)
  This lesson teaches spelling rules, (using i after e, dropping the final e, changing a final y to i, add es, doubling a final consonant Ð ing, ed), review of verbs, nouns, pronouns, upper/lower case, identifiers, present simple tense, present continuous tense, vowels & consonants, prepositions of place, forming sentences. We are going to look at spelling rules, make sure that you are correctly writing your words and then look at everything that we have learned so far in Lessons 1 through 4. The main rules that everyone will learn are the following. Rule number 1: i before e except after c. Rule number 2: drop the final e. Rule number 3: change the Y to I. Rule number 4: When you have a word that ends in a vowel and then a consonant, (like the word stop)you double the final letter.
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: The Alphabet, Consonants & Vowels, Capitalization & Punctuation, Personal Pronouns, The Verb 'to be', Articles a/an/the (Lesson 1)
  This lesson teaches an introduction to the alphabet and the sounds and names of the letters, consonants and vowels. We look at personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, the) and the verb Òto be,Ó "I am" "you are" "he is." We also look at the negative verb Òto be,Ó "I am not" "you are not" "he is not" and a question form of the verb Òto be,Ó "am I" "are you," "is he." The English alphabet has 26 letters. WeÕre going to teach you those letters along with consonants and vowels. The vowel letters are A, E, I, O, and U. The consonants are everything else. B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y and Z. Next we'll move on to learn capitalization, sentences and punctuation, pronouns, verbs and articles.
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Vocabulary, Nouns (people, places, things) Regular & Irregular Verbs, Identifiers (this/that/these/those), Prepositions (Lesson 2)
  This lesson teaches Vocabulary, Nouns (people, places, things) Regular & Irregular Verbs, Identifiers (this/that/these/those), Prepositions. Nouns: We start with nouns which are a person, a place, or a thing. They are the essential vocabulary when you are talking about something or someone. Identifiers: This, that, these and those are identifiers that tell you which ones you want or which nouns you want. Prepositions: Prepositions give you even more information about the noun. A preposition tells you the direction, the location, or the time of a noun. Verbs regular & irregular: A verb, it gives you the action. It really tells you what is happening, what people are doing, where people are going.

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