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Grade 7

• Composition

  • C.7.1
  • C.7.1.b
  • C.7.1.c
  • C.7.1.e
  • C.7.1.f
  • C.7.1.g
  • C.7.2
  • C.7.2.b
  • C.7.2.c
  • C.7.2.e
  • C.7.2.f
  • C.7.2.h
  • C.7.3
  • C.7.3.a
  • C.7.3.b
  • C.7.3.c
  • C.7.3.d
  • C.7.3.e
  • C.7.3.f
  • C.7.3.g
  • C.7.4
  • C.7.5
  • C.7.6
  • C.7.7

• Language

  • L.7.1.a
  • L.7.1.b
  • L.7.2
  • L.7.2.b
  • L.7.3
  • L.7.3.a
  • L.7.4
  • L.7.4.a
  • L.7.4.b
  • L.7.4.d
  • L.7.5
  • L.7.5.a
  • L.7.5.b
  • L.7.5.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.7.1
  • RI.7.2
  • RI.7.3
  • RI.7.5
  • RI.7.6
  • RI.7.7
  • RI.7.8
  • RI.7.9
  • RI.7.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.7.1
  • RL.7.2
  • RL.7.3
  • RL.7.4
  • RL.7.5
  • RL.7.6
  • RL.7.7
  • RL.7.9
  • RL.7.10

KAS ELA Standard: C.7.3.e

Use precise words, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle

Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

Gr 2-8

A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong

Let’s go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes: Quick Baby

Let’s make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Gr 1-8

Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Gr 1-8

Looking Closely at Holiday Photos

Let’s write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!

Gr 1-8

Thanksgiving Photo Writing

Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item’s point of view.

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons

Look closely at Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: Chōshi in Shimosha

Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan’s most famous artist.

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Look closely at Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: Twilight in the Wilderness

Look closely at Twilight in the Wilderness. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Gr 1-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Gr 3-8

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Gr 1-8

Self Portraits: Text Art

What if a students’ self-portrait was made of words that describe the student!?

Gr 1-4

Writing Technique: Opposite Adjectives

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!

Gr 1-8

More Specific than “Smart”

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Gr 1-8

Showing A Character’s Trait

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

Gr 2-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.

Gr 1-8