7th Grade Writing

During this year my students will be given the opportunity to write in a variety of styles and genres.  They will follow a basic writing process as follows:

During a writing unit I will also concentrate on writing and revising skills as well as editing tasks.  I will use student models when possible, so they may see successful results.

As in past years, I will use an editing/grammar program called Daily Oral Language (DOL). Students will receive weekly worksheets to practice editing skills.  Basic grammar rules will be reviewed and students will be given quizzes.

This year I will be incorporating a new element into my language arts program.  Last year Ellen Hock, another language arts teacher on the White Team, and I attended a workshop and were very impressed with the idea.

The program is based on ideas of William B. Spivey, Ph.D.  It is a step-by-step system to strengthen student writing by developing sentence building and expansion.

For more information about this program you can visit Dr. Spivey's Web site at  http://www.seent.com

For the first marking period students will be working on:

Follow the links to find materials and instructions for these projects.

As new projects come along I will update these pages.