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School Price: $65.95

Format:
Hardback 352 pp.
8.5" x 11"

ISBN-10:
0195428595

ISBN-13:
9780195428599

Publication date:
February 2008

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Language 7

Debbie Chambers, Robin Pearson and Myra Junyk
Edited by Rachel Eagen

Trillium listed in Ontario! Now a Recommended Student Resource locally approved by Surrey SD36 in British Columbia!

Language 7 has been designed to specifically address individual curriculum criteria, as outlined in the new Ontario Language curriculum for Grade 7. This resource incorporates the four strands which include oral communication, reading skills and strategies, writing, and media literacy. Unique features include differentiation and scaffolding, metacognition and reflective thinking, critical literacy, and engagement.

Readership : Grade 7 Language Arts Students.

Unit 1: Adventure
Story... is our wall against the dark
Here There be Dragons
Waiting for a White Knight
Ghost Sailors of the Charles Haskell
The Legend of Anne and Mary
Shark's Breakfast
Cryptozoology
Forensic Expert Says Bigfoot is Real
Unit 2: Imagination
Little Red Riding Hood (Reading a Visual)
Fairy Tale Monsters
A Wolf at the Door
Hairum-Scarum
Paper
Origami Instructions
A Small Dragon
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Unit 3: Perspective
Name Giveaway
Purple
The Winner
Shonar Arches
Adolescent Brain Development (with graphic text)
And There He Was
The Crush
Unit 4: Attitude
Duncan's Way
The Ball of Fire
The Story of Emily
Refugee
Ode to Family Photographs
A Splinter of Glass: Aung San Suu Kyi
Rich and Poor
Unit 5: Dreams & Goals
Alwyn Morris: Too Small to Compete?
James Naismith
Basketball
The Bomb
An Author Came to School Today
S.E. Hinton
Birute Galdikas
Unit 6: Thinking Globally
How Chocolate is Made
Fair Trade
What's Most Important to You in Your Life?
Nkosi Johnson
Ananse and the Pot of Wisdom
Like a Water Lily
Coming in for a Landing

Teacher's Resource
Companion Site

Robin Pearson is Former ESL/ELD consultant and Principal with the Waterloo Region District School Board. Debbie Chambers is V.P., Sydenham District High School, Limestone DSB. Myra Junyk is a Retired Literacy Consultant, TCDSB.

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Special Features

  • Differentiation and Scaffolding: Units provide multiple ways to master the material based on personal learning styles. Scaffolding is achieved by completing Formative Tasks that build the necessary skill set to address the final Summative Tasks.
  • Metacognition and Reflective Thinking: Self-reflective learning strategies are cultivated throughout each unit. By developing an understanding of personal learning styles each student consciously utilizes the most effective strategies to promote individual success, particularly important for struggling students.
  • Critical Literacy: Students develop the ability to distinguish between fact and opinion, while identifying concepts of social justice on an international scale.