Hearne ISD
English Language Arts/Reading
Course: Language Arts – Grade 7
Focus: Review genres, Letter writing, Procedural writing, STAAR
TEKS
Assessment
Guiding Questions/
Specificity
Designated Six Weeks: Fifth
Days to teach: 29
Academic
Instructional
Vocabulary
Strategies
Suggested Resources/
Weblinks
Ongoing TEKS reinforced each six weeks
5th Six Weeks – New TEKS Introduced
Reading
Students will review
structure and elements
across genres
Literary
Theme and genre
Poetry
Drama
Fiction
Literary nonfiction
Sensory language
Informal and formal cumulative
assessment
Specific skills related
to each genre
previously taught
Holt Literature –
Best Practices
Toolkit (online)
Holt Literature
Informational
Culture and History
Expository
Persuasive
Procedural
Writing
(7.17) Writing/Procedural Texts. Students write expository texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students
are expected to:
Rubric based on SE’s
-Group collaboration
**(A) write a multiCan students convey
Expository test
-Texas Write Source p.
-Holt-Unit 6- pg. 765 161-164
paragraph essay to convey information effectively
Graphics
-Exemplars used as
information about a topic
writing procedural
Multimedia
-Holt-Unit 6- pg. 756
models
that: (Readiness)
texts?
Text
-Holt-Unit 4- pgs.532-Interactive notebook 541
How can students
Below are (Supporting)
incorporate knowledge
ELPS 5F, 5G, 1G
(i) presents effective
-Empowering Writers:
of expository text by
introductions and
www.empoweringwriter
producing a multimedia
s.com
concluding paragraphs;
presentation?
(ii) contains a clearly
stated purpose or
-Lesson ideas:
-Multi-step process
controlling idea;
http://eolit.hrw.com/hlla/
with check points
(iii) is logically
newmainlinks/writ.jsp.
-Letter writing
-Writing process:
organized with
-Writing responses to
*Margaret Kilgo’s question stems are used with permission and may not be reproduced. All rights reserved by Kilgo Consulting, Inc.
**Indicates that this TEKS/SE is a skill tested on the SAT college entrance exam.
Revised Summer 2012
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Hearne ISD
English Language Arts/Reading
Course: Language Arts – Grade 7
Focus: Review genres, Letter writing, Procedural writing, STAAR
TEKS
Assessment
Guiding Questions/
Specificity
appropriate facts and
details and includes no
extraneous information
or inconsistencies;
(iv) accurately
synthesizes ideas from
several sources; and
(v) uses a variety of
sentence structures,
rhetorical devices, and
transitions to link
paragraphs;
(CRS): (Writing A.4)
Recognize the importance
of revision as the key to
effective writing. Each
draft should refine key
ideas and organize them
more logically and
fluidly, use language
more precisely and
effectively, and draw the
reader to the author’s
purpose. (4.a) Produce
drafts that are logically
organized in relation to
the writer’s purpose,
audience, and chosen
form.
Designated Six Weeks: Fifth
Days to teach: 29
Academic
Instructional
Vocabulary
Strategies
text
-Text evidence to
support ideas
-Use multiple sources
for information
-Writing process
-Practice conventions
-“I do, we do, you do”
model
-Checkpoints with mini
lessons throughout the
process
Suggested Resources/
Weblinks
http://www.kent.k12.wa.
us/curriculum/writing/ele
m_writing/bib/writingpr
ocess.htm.
-Examples of multimedia
presentations
-Resources:
http://www.uen.org/gene
ral_learner/multimedia_r
esources.shtml.
-Rubrics:
http://www.rubrics4teac
hers.com/multimedia.ph
p.
(B) write a letter that
reflects an opinion,
registers a complaint, or
*Margaret Kilgo’s question stems are used with permission and may not be reproduced. All rights reserved by Kilgo Consulting, Inc.
**Indicates that this TEKS/SE is a skill tested on the SAT college entrance exam.
Revised Summer 2012
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Hearne ISD
English Language Arts/Reading
Course: Language Arts – Grade 7
Focus: Review genres, Letter writing, Procedural writing, STAAR
TEKS
Assessment
Guiding Questions/
Specificity
Designated Six Weeks: Fifth
Days to teach: 29
Academic
Instructional
Vocabulary
Strategies
Suggested Resources/
Weblinks
requests information in a
business or friendly
context;
(C) write responses to
literary or expository texts
that demonstrate the
writing skills for multiparagraph essays and
provide sustained
evidence from the text
using quotations when
appropriate
(D) produce a multimedia
presentation involving
text and graphics using
available technology.
Oral and Written Conventions
Review conventions
-Use revising and
editing for authentic
practice
Assess contextually through
revising and editing
-Show exemplar
models and have
students replicate
-Texas Write Source
-Holt Literature-for
models
Students will construct pieces of
writing demonstrating mastery of
grade level conventions
*Margaret Kilgo’s question stems are used with permission and may not be reproduced. All rights reserved by Kilgo Consulting, Inc.
**Indicates that this TEKS/SE is a skill tested on the SAT college entrance exam.
Revised Summer 2012
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