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Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 14 of 18

Plan & Organize Writing

Topics, planning tools, text forms and organization

What your child practises

Children practise the steps before and while drafting: choosing a focused topic, planning tools, choosing a text form for the audience, and organizing ideas in a clear pattern.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Production · generating ideas, gathering information, planning tools, text forms, multimodal forms and organizational patterns

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which step usually comes first in the writing process?

    • printing
    • proofreading
    • publishing
    • planning and gathering ideas

  2. Question 2

    The conventions of a report include…

    • rhyme and verses
    • emojis only
    • dialogue only
    • headings and facts organized by topic

  3. Question 3

    Which tool compares two things?

    • a web of one idea
    • a Venn diagram
    • a story map
    • a timeline

  4. Question 4

    Why should a writer think about the audience?

    • It decides the spelling
    • It makes the text longer
    • It chooses the paper
    • It helps choose words and details that fit readers

  5. Question 5

    Which organizational pattern explains why something happened and what resulted?

    • description
    • chronological sequence
    • listing
    • cause and effect

  6. Question 6

    To expand a short piece of writing, a writer can…

    • add details from other sources or experts
    • delete the introduction
    • repeat sentences
    • shrink the font

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