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Language Arts -7th Grade Lesson Plans
Time4Learning is an online student-paced learning system covering preschool through middle school. It is popular as a seventh grade homeschool curriculum, for afterschool enrichment, for remediation, and for summer study. If you are just learning about Time4Learning, we'd suggest first looking at our interactive lesson demos.
The lesson plans below provide a detailed list of the language arts and language arts extensions, with brief activity descriptions and learning activity (LA) numbers. Additional resources related to seventh grade language arts are also provided.
Members often use this page as a resource for more detailed planning, to choose specific activities using the activity finder or to compare our curriculum with state standards.
Seventh grade language arts is organized into two large sections:
- Language Arts - 127 Activities
- Language Arts Extensions - 74 Activities
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| Chapter 1 - "Vocabulary Skills"Students will expand and apply knowledge of grade level appropriate vocabulary. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Synonyms - The student will demonstrate knowledge by determining the meaning of synonyms from grade level appropriate vocabulary, by correctly choosing a given word or phrase that means the same thing, in reading activities that incorporate explicit instruction and application. |
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| Antonyms - The student will demonstrate knowledge by determining the meaning of antonyms from grade level appropriate vocabulary, by correctly choosing a given word or phrase that means the opposite, in reading activities that incorporate explicit instruction and application. |
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| Prefixes - The student will be able to analyze and determine the correct meaning of a word, based on the prefix of the root word or how the prefix is used in the context of a passage. |
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| Suffixes - The student will be able to analyze and determine the correct meaning of a word, based on the suffix of the root word or how the suffix is used in the context of a passage. |
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| Homophones - The student will be able to identify and select the appropriate homophone or word that sounds the same, based on the context of a passage which fits the best meaning of the given word or phrase. |
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| Idioms - The student will be able to identify and analyze the author's use of idioms, based on the context of a passage and how these expressions are used in literal and interpretative information. |
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| Latin and Greek Roots - The student will be able to identify and determine the meaning of unknown words, based on the understanding of Latin and Greek roots. |
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| Chapter 2 - "Process Skills: Think Alouds"Students will apply comprehension strategies to literary and expository texts using think aloud prompts and scaffolded support. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Think Aloud Level 1 - Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying with extensive scaffolding and support, through think aloud prompts. |
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| Think Aloud Level 2 - Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying with scaffolding and support, through think aloud prompts. |
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| Think Aloud Level 3 - Use the reading comprehension process skills of summarizing, predicting, visualizing, questioning, and clarifying to independently read and comprehend texts with minimal think aloud support. |
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| Chapter 3 - "Comprehension"Students will apply comprehension strategies to literary and expository texts. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Summarizing - Develop summaries, paraphrase, or synthesize information from two or more literary or expository texts. |
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| Plot - Analyze and explain the impact of characters and settings within the plot of literary text(s), the exposition, and how relationships effect the central conflict which leads to the climax and resolution. |
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| Plot, Character and Setting - Identify the ways major and minor conflicts affect character's actions by comparing and contrasting actions, setting(s), symbolism, and plot from various literary texts. |
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| Main Idea & Supporting Details - Non-Fiction - Identify, summarize, or explain the main idea(s) using the supporting details in an expository text. |
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| Main Idea and Theme - Fiction - Identify, summarize, or explain the main idea(s) or theme(s) using the supporting details and symbolism in a literary text. |
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| Charts and Graphs - Read, interpret and make predictions using charts, graphs, diagrams, maps or other graphic representations. |
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| Cause and Effect - Identify and distinguish between cause and effect in expository and literary texts. |
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| Author's Purpose - Identify and use knowledge of the author's purpose by analyzing how the literary techniques of mood and tone affects author's perspective and contributes to the comprehension of a literary or expository text. |
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| Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions - Use knowledge, information, and ideas from literary texts, expository texts, or from multiple sources to make inferences about the text(s) (e.g., make inferences, draw conclusions, make generalizations, infer sequence of events, and infer a character's feelings.) |
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| Compare and Contrast - Compare and contrast information and ideas within a text or between two or more texts (literary or expository), including metaphors and point of view. |
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| Chapter 4 - "State Simulation Assessments"Students will apply comprehension skills to literary and expository texts that simulate high stakes assessments. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| State Simulation Test - Students will demonstrate knowledge of comprehension skills on grade level appropriate literary and expository passages, with questions that simulate a high-stakes assessment. |
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| Chapter 5 - "The Scarlet Pimpernel - ILA"The student will engage in a series of integrated exploratory and assessment activities that target vocabulary, fluency, reading comprehension, prewriting, literary response and analysis, and writing application. The anchor literature piece is the play The Scarlet Pimpernel. The comprehension activities focus on point of view, and the writing application focuses on relevant evidence in a persuasive composition as it relates to a review of a movie or play. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Before Reading - Through an exploratory activity, the student will acquire background information that will set the stage for the anchor piece, the play The Scarlet Pimpernel. The student will develop vocabulary through the use of a literature-based glossary and an interactive assessment activity that focuses on the use of a graphic organizer where the student matches words with their definitions. The student will also respond to a prewriting prompt. |
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| During Reading - The student will achieve comprehension by reading the play The Scarlet Pimpernel with emphasis on vocabulary and fluency. The student will be assessed on their comprehension of the literature selection by answering questions about drawing conclusions, mood, cause and effect, making inferences, characterization, sequence of events, supporting details, compare/contrast, characterization, and theme. |
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| After Reading - The student will use a variety of strategies to comprehend reading selections and be assessed on vocabulary contained in the literature selection. The student will analyze and evaluate the literature piece by responding to literary response and analysis prompts. Through a comprehension activity that incorporates direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on point of view. A reteach component provides a different instructional modality for students who need additional direct instruction on the point of view objective. |
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| Writing Application - Through a series of writing activities that incorporate direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on relevant evidence in a persuasive composition as it relates to a review of a movie or play. The student will respond to prompts to write his or her own review of a play or a movie. |
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| Chapter 6 - "Hush - ILA"The student will engage in a series of integrated exploratory and assessment activities that target vocabulary, fluency, reading comprehension, prewriting, literary response and analysis, and writing application. The anchor literature piece is an excerpt from the realistic fiction book Hush. The comprehension activities focus on compare and contrast, and the writing application focuses on personal narrative that includes memories of an event or experience as it relates to a memoir. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Before Reading - Through an exploratory activity, the student will acquire background information that will set the stage for the anchor piece, an excerpt from the realistic fiction novel Hush. The student will develop vocabulary through the use of a literature-based glossary and an interactive assessment activity that focuses on the correct usage of words within the context of a sentence or as a graphic representation. The student will also respond to a prewriting prompt. |
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| During Reading - The student will achieve comprehension by reading an excerpt from the realistic fiction novel Hush with emphasis on vocabulary and fluency. The student will be assessed on their comprehension of the literature selection by answering questions about main idea, making inferences, author's purpose, summary, mood, characterization, character's point of view, sequence of events, theme, and supporting details. |
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| After Reading - The student will use a variety of strategies to comprehend reading selections and be assessed on vocabulary contained in the literature selection. The student will analyze and evaluate the literature piece by responding to literary response and analysis prompts. Through a comprehension activity that incorporates direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on compare and contrast. A reteach component provides a different instructional modality for students who need additional direct instruction on the compare and contrast objective. |
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| Writing Application - Through a series of writing activities that incorporate direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on personal narrative that includes memories of an event or an experience as it relates to a memoir. The student will respond to prompts to write a memoir of an event or experience of his or her own. |
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| Chapter 7 - "The Wreckers - ILA"The student will engage in a series of integrated exploratory and assessment activities that target vocabulary, fluency, reading comprehension, prewriting, literary response and analysis, and writing application. The anchor literature piece is an excerpt from the action-adventure novel The Wreckers. The comprehension activities focus on fact and opinion, and the writing application focuses on writing a fictional narrative that develops a definite setting as it relates to a suspense story. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Before Reading - Through an exploratory activity, the student will acquire background information that will set the stage for the anchor piece, an excerpt from the action-adventure novel The Wreckers. The student will develop vocabulary through the use of a literature-based glossary and an interactive assessment activity that focuses on correctly identifying a vocabulary word with its definition. The student will also respond to a prewriting prompt. |
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| During Reading - The student will achieve comprehension by reading an excerpt from the action-adventure novel The Wreckers with emphasis on vocabulary and fluency. The student will be assessed on their comprehension of the literature selection by answering questions about characterization, drawing conclusions, mood, making inferences, figurative language, sequence, supporting details, cause and effect, author’s purpose, and summarizing. |
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| After Reading - The student will use a variety of strategies to comprehend reading selections and be assessed on vocabulary contained in the literature selection. The student will analyze and evaluate the literature piece by responding to literary response and analysis prompts. Through a comprehension activity that incorporates direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on how to tell the difference between conclusions that are based on fact and those that are based on opinions in the selection. A reteach component provides a different instructional modality for students who need additional direct instruction on the fact and opinion objective. |
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| Writing Application - Through a series of writing activities that incorporate direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on writing a fictional narrative that develops a definite setting as it relates to a suspense story. The student will respond to a prompt to write a suspense story of his or her own. |
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| Chapter 8 - "Wright Brothers - ILA"The student will engage in a series of integrated exploratory and assessment activities that target vocabulary, fluency, reading comprehension, prewriting, literary response and analysis, and writing application. The anchor literature piece is an excerpt from the true story The Wright Brothers: The Birth of Modern Aviation. The comprehension activities focus on sequence of events, and the writing application focuses on writing a simple expository description of a real object, person, place, or event as it relates to a newspaper article. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Before Reading - Through an exploratory activity, the student will acquire background information that will set the stage for the anchor piece, an excerpt from the true story The Wright Brothers. The student will develop vocabulary through the use of a literature-based glossary and an interactive assessment activity that focuses on correctly identifying a vocabulary word with its definition. The student will also respond to a prewriting prompt. |
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| During Reading - The student will achieve comprehension by reading an excerpt from the true story The Wright Brothers: The Birth of Modern Aviation with emphasis on vocabulary and fluency. The student will be assessed on their comprehension of the literature selection by answering questions about cause and effect, themes, figurative language, sequence, making inferences, characterization, mood, recognizing main ideas, point of view, and author’s purpose. |
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| After Reading - The student will use a variety of strategies to comprehend reading selections and be assessed on vocabulary contained in the literature selection. The student will analyze and evaluate the literature piece by responding to literary response and analysis prompts. Through a comprehension activity that incorporates direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on identifying text that uses sequencing or other types of logical order in the selection. A reteach component provides a different instructional modality for students who need additional direct instruction on the sequence of events objective. |
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| Writing Application - Through a series of writing activities that incorporate direct instruction, a practice, and an assessment component, the student will focus on writing a simple expository description of a real object, person, place, or event as it relates to a newspaper article. The student will respond to a prompt to write a newspaper article of his or her own. |
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| Chapter 1 - "Determine Word Meanings - Extension"This unit guides students to use context clues and figurative language in order to understand text, including single words and text passages. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Make Word Choices Using Context - Student will use context clues to define new words, define underlined words, and use punctuation to identify definitions. |
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| Connect, Compare, Contrast Ideas - Students will use context clues to identify new words and definitions of words. Students will also learn signal words that cue the meaning of the word. Students will learn to define words using comparison and contrast. |
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| Multiple-meaning Words - Students will use context clues to determine the correct meaning of a word from a picture or a sentence. Students will also use dictionary skills and knowledge of parts of speech to identify word meaning and homophones. |
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| Extend Vocabulary Using Strategies - Students will identify and distinguish elements of figurative language: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. Students will also recognize understatements and contrast vivid writing with plain text. |
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| Chapter 2 - "Summarize Written Text - Extension"This unit guides students to summarize written text by identifying main ideas, distilling paragraphs into single statements, and finding summary clues. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Main Idea and Supporting Details - Students will identify main topics of a paragraph through literal statements or implied concepts, recall literal details of text, and recognize points that support the main idea of a paragraph. |
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| Summarize/Paraphrase Information - Students will summarize a selection or passage by analyzing literal details or implied concepts, distill paragraphs into a single statement, and use the title of a selection as a summary clue. |
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| Chapter 3 - "Support Main Idea - Extension"This unit explores the methods of finding and identifying the main idea and supporting details of a passage, as well as finding the setting and mood of a story. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Main Idea and Supporting Details - Students will identify important details from a passage, recall facts and supporting details, and examine details that answer the 5 "W"'s (who, what, where, when, and why) questions. |
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| Influence of Setting On Problem - Students will determine whether a story describes a location and/or a time, and whether it is specific or general. Students will also note the mood that the setting describes. |
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| Chapter 4 - "Recognizing Relationships - Extension"This unit guides students to recognize relationships within a passage by finding cause and effect relationships through a variety of tools. It also teaches students to use organizational patterns to follow directions in the correct sequence. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Cause-and-Effect Relationships - Students will identify statements that contain cause-effect relationships, distinguish between the part of a sentence that show cause and the part that shows effect, and look for signal words that reveal cause and effect events. |
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| Use of Organizational Patterns - Students will examine entire set of instructions prior to starting a procedure, follow the proper order of instructions, look for signal words that indicate the order of a task, and assemble all of the materials necessary to complete a task. |
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| Chapter 5 - "Analyze Text - Extension"This unit focuses on analyzing text to determine the author's purpose, the theme of the text, and the elements in a passage. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Make Inferences - Students will draw logical, reasonable conclusions from factual details. |
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| Draw Conclusions - Students will draw logical, reasonable conclusions from factual details by recognizing signal words that help identify a conclusion. |
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| Author's Purpose/Point of View - Students will identify the author's purpose in a writing selection and recognize that the author may have more than one purpose. |
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| Identify/Understand Themes - Students will identify the author's purpose in a writing selection, recognize that the author may have more than one purpose, and use clues to discover a theme. |
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| Understand Plot Develop - Students will identify elements in a passage (conflict, mood, setting, and characterization.) |
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| Chapter 6 - "Evaluate Point of View - Extension"This unit allows students to evaluate the point of view of text by discriminating between fact and opinion, comparing/contrasting story elements, and recognizing the author's point of view and bias. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Discriminate Fact and Opinion - Students will differentiate between fact and opinion, and recognize qualifiers that limit or restrict meaning such as "most," "best," or "always." Students will also identify mixed statements (statements that contain both fact and opinion.) |
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| Compare/Contrast Story Elements - Students will compare and contrast how a character changes from the beginning to the end of a story. |
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| Determine Author's Point of View - Students will determine the author's point of view expressed through the writing and recognize clues that reveal the point of view. |
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| Critical Reading - Students will practice critical reading to detect bias by a writer and identify persuasion techniques that promote bias such as testimonial, bandwagon, and loaded words. |
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| Chapter 7 - "Parts of Speech - Extension"This unit focuses on the correct usage of parts of speech, including plural nouns, possessive nouns, verb tenses, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and conjunctions. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
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| Apply Spelling Conventions - Students will learn the rules of plural nouns ending in -s, -sh, -ch, -x, -z. |
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| Accurate Use of Apostrophes - Students will define singular and plural possessive nouns, and distinguish between possessive and common nouns. |
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| Use Verb Tenses Appropriately - Students will define past, present, and future perfect tenses. Students will also compare simple and perfect tenses. |
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| Simple and Compound Sent - Students will define subject-verb agreement and learn to determine subject-verb agreement. |
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| Use Infinitives and Participles - Students will identify and define antecedents in a sentence. |
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| Define Comparative and Superlative Adjectives - Students will define and identify comparative and superlative adjectives. |
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| Define Comparative and Superlative Adverbs - Students will define and identify comparative and superlative adverbs. |
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| Define and Identify Double Negatives - Students will define and learn to identify double negatives. Students will also correct negative sentences and determine negative words. |
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| Recognize Troublesome Adjectives and Adverbs - Students will learn the usage and to recognize troublesome adverbs and adjectives. |
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| Use Prepositional Phrases - Students will determine the correct placement of prepositional phrases in sentences, and learn to place prepositional phrases next to the words they modify. |
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| Use Conjunctions to Connect Ideas - Students will define correlative and coordinating conjunctions. |
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| Chapter 8 - "Capitalization - Extension"This unit includes rules and application of capitalization conventions including: proper nouns, proper adjectives, titles, and quotes. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Identify Proper Nouns - Students will identify proper nouns and their capitalization. |
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| Define Proper Adjectives - Students will learn to define and capitalize proper adjectives. |
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| Apply Capitalization Conventions - Students will determine capitalization in titles and first words and learn capitalization rules for titles and first words. |
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| Apply Capitalization Rules for Quotes - Students will identify and determine capitalization of quotes and tags. |
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| Chapter 9 - "Punctuation - Extension"Thus unit focuses on using the rules of punctuation to capitalize and punctuate correctly. This includes punctuation rules for commas, introductory words/phrases, end marks, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, and quotation marks. |
| Lesson Title and Description |
Learning Activity (LA)
Number |
| Use Commas in a Series - Students will learn rules for using commas in a series. |
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| Determine Comma Usage - Students will define direct and indirect quotes, learn comma rules for quotes, and determine comma usage. |
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| Use Commas to Separate Information - Students will learn comma rules for dates, addresses, and letters. |
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| Use Commas in Compound Sentences - Students will learn rules of comma usage in compound sentences. |
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| Define Appositives - Students will learn to define appositives and appositive phrases. |
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| Use Commas in Introductory Words and Phrases - Students will learn to determine comma placement in introductory words and phrases. |
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| Define Rules for End Marks - Students will learn the rules for using end marks. |
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| Apply Punctuation Conventions - Students will learn rules for colon and semicolon usage. |
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| Determine Apostrophe Usage - Students will learn the rules for using apostrophes with possessives, contractions, and plurals. |
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| Correct Use of Punctuation - Students will learn the rules for placing question and exclamation marks in sentences with quotations. |
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