Grade 7 English Language Arts
10 units matched to the Saskatchewan Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Language Arts”.
Strands and outcomes
- Comprehend and Respond (CR7.1–CR7.8): View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity (e.g., Thinking for… Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning before (e.g., formulating questions), during, and after… Use pragmatic, textual (e.g., how author organized text), syntactic (e.g., main and subordinate ideas)… (and 5 more outcomes)
- Compose and Create (CC7.1–CC7.9): Create various visual, oral, written, and multimedia (including digital) texts that explore identity, social… Create and present a teacher-guided inquiry project related to a topic, theme, or issue studied in English… Select and use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning before, during (e.g. using transition words), and… (and 6 more outcomes)
- Assess and Reflect on Language Abilities (AR7.1–AR7.2): Set and achieve short-term and long-term goals to improve viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and… Appraise own and others' work for clarity and correctness. Units Doing Our Part for Planet Earth Finding the…
Units
Unit 1
Close Reading
Reading original stories, arguments and informational passages, then identifying theme and main idea, making inferences, spotting claims and counterarguments, and explaining why an author made certain choices.
Outcome: CR7.6 · reading and interpreting grade-level texts
Unit 2
Literary Devices
Recognizing the tools writers use: figurative language, foreshadowing, flashback, symbolism and the three kinds of irony (verbal, situational and dramatic), plus the parts of a plot.
Outcome: CR7.6 · literary devices in stories and poems
Unit 3
Tone & Mood
Telling the writer's attitude (tone) apart from the reader's feeling (mood), and seeing how word choice and connotation shape both.
Outcome: CR7.6 · tone and mood
Unit 4
Poetry Lab
Reading short original poems to find rhyme schemes, count stanzas, identify the speaker, recognize forms like haiku, limerick and free verse, and interpret figurative language and theme.
Outcome: CR7.6 · reading and responding to poetry
Unit 5
Source Check
Researching responsibly: judging whether a source is trustworthy and current, noticing bias, separating fact from opinion, and giving credit through quotation, paraphrase and citation.
Outcome: CR7.7 · checking sources in information texts
Unit 6
Persuasive Power
Identifying appeals to credibility, emotion and logic; spotting weak reasoning like bandwagon, false cause and slippery slope; and judging which evidence and rebuttals are strongest.
Outcome: CC7.7 · persuasive writing
Unit 7
Clauses & Sentences
Finding independent and dependent clauses, naming the four sentence types, and fixing fragments, run-ons and comma splices, the building blocks of varied, clear sentences.
Outcome: CC7.3 · clauses and sentence structure
Unit 8
Modifiers & Parallelism
Revising sentences so describing phrases sit next to what they describe (no misplaced or dangling modifiers) and list items match in form (parallel structure).
Outcome: CC7.3 · modifiers and parallel structure
Unit 9
Semicolons, Colons & Dashes
Using semicolons to join related sentences and separate complex lists, colons to introduce lists and explanations, and dashes to add emphasis or interruptions.
Outcome: CC7.3 · semicolons, colons and dashes
Unit 10
Word Mix-Ups
Choosing correctly between commonly confused words: its/it's, their/there/they're, then/than, lose/loose, who's/whose, affect/effect, accept/except and more.
Outcome: CC7.3 · commonly confused words
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