7th Grade Curriculum integrates English Grammar and Reading Comprehension

Program Features
Perfect for home schooling or traditional classroom environment. LLATL seventh grade reading program includes a Teacher Book and a Student Activity Book. 36 weekly lessons (which includes 3 Book Studies) divided into easy-to-use daily plans.

36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
3 Book Studies (listed in the order which they appear):
- The Star of Light by Patricia St. John
- Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick
- Much Ado About Nothing - Play by Shakespeare
4 Units:
- Everyday Words
- Poetry Unit
- Short Story Unit
- Research Unit
Integrated language arts lessons including: English grammar, reading comprehension, spelling, higher-order thinking, and study skills.
Teacher friendly, with little or no teacher preparation needed!
Reviews Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice.
Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.

Everyday Words: 12 week grammar unit comprised of dictation, sentence structure, and diagramming using classical literature for the middle school student.

Units: The Poetry Unit encourages an appreciation while memorizing, reciting, and analyzing various poetry. Students compose poetry and a psalm.
In the Short Story Unit, students will analyze the elements of a story, develop a plot line of a story, write dialogue and much more.

Research is taught in an easy to follow step by step plan for student and teacher.

Review Activities follow most lessons with Assessments to check progress.

** A good poetry book is recommended.

Book Studies: Each book study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.

All literature passages are contained in The Green Book, but the passage may spark your student's interest to read the book. These books may be obtained through your library or purchased from bookstores or catalogs.

Fully Integrated Language Approach!
The Integrated Language Approach has the benefits of all teaching methods. By working with pieces of real literature, you focus on English grammar, reading, vocabulary, spelling, writing, thinking skills, and penmanship. Your student has the best advantage for learning skills in this effective and lasting manner.

Grammar is taught in conjunction with reading and writing, not as an isolated subject. Your student's vocabulary will be enhanced by reading the good literature carefully chosen for his grade level. We realize that every student functions at different reading levels. For the more hesitant reader, we recommend, you, the teacher, read aloud with your student. Grade appropriate Reading skills are included. Helpful Spelling Tips are included to help your student develop his spelling skills. Penmanship skills may be developed as your student writes his dictation or any other writing assignment. Handwriting is influenced by maturity of fine motor ability so the goal is to improve from the point at which your student begins. Thinking skills are developed throughout the activities in the program. Anytime a student is asked to respond to the literature with discussion, writing, drawing, or completing an activity, your student is developing higher order thinking skills.

This program provides you with materials, activities, and suggestions that will encourage and benefit you as you create a learning environment for your student. Since everyone is different, we suggest that you try our ideas, and then freely experiment until you find patterns that work for you.

All the units in this program are written to be taught in numbered lessons for easy reference. The units may be completed as listed in The Teacher's Book, or changed to meet your home schooling needs.

Since everyone is different, we suggest that you try our ideas, and then freely experiment until you find patterns that work best for you. We feel certain you and your student will find this program enjoyable and effective.

Lessons contain passages of literature and learning activities. These activities are designed to help your student learn language skills in their context while developing writing and thinking skills.

Everyday words taken from literature teach English grammar, spelling, and writing through dictation and activities that hold your student's interest.

Table of Contents

Everyday words in Black Beauty
The Poetry Unit
Everyday Words in The Borrowers
Book Study on Star of Light
Everyday words in Devil in Print
The Short Story Unit
Everyday Words in Eight Cousins
Book Study on Adam and His Kin
Everyday Words in Psalm 1 and The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Book study on the Play, Much Ado About Nothing
The Research Unit
Enrichment Answers
Skills Index
Bibliography

Easy For Teachers Fun For Students
The LLATL program makes learning fun and interesting. With literature as a basis, this innovative program uses a fully integrated approach as it takes your students through all the activities needed to learn the language art skills appropriate for the seventh grade level.

Just turn to Lesson 1 and begin teaching. The authors have done the work for you in an easy-to-follow, conversational format needing little or no preparation. Teacher's notes, question answers, and the Enrichment activities icon, which is your clue to look for the corresponding activity located in the Student Activity Book, are conveniently located in the outside margin of the Teacher's Book in bolded print for quick reference and easy access.

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