Grade 7 Writing Topics Practiced
- Prewriting: How do you get ideas for your topic? Choice writing: lists, numbered lists; Write Source 50-51; Organize your prewriting.
- Revision Strategy: Prepositional Phrases: add detail to you sentences:
- Original Sentence: The poodle barked.
- Revised Sentence: The black poodle in the back seat of the jeep in our driveway barked at the calico cat in the living room window.
- Power Write --- free write on your topic to learn to write many ideas at once. Edit.
- 4Bs of Internet Safety: Most important -- be overly positive and include no personal information
- Goal/Plan
- Prewriting Ideas: Write a list of alphabet words and phrases (such as things you know how to do)
- Power Write for fluency; freewrite for many ideas on your topic; Edit
- Prewrite with graphic organizer: lists of topics for your idea:
- Where I’m from: people, food, places, entertainment
- Prewrite using senses: listen to music related to topic
- Organize work: Table of Contents (Study Skill)
- Create a Table of Contents in your notebook (text organization)
- Prewriting Strategies: Graphic organization; timeline
- Organize prewriting by highlighting what you will include and numbering the items in a logical order.
- Use your organization to write a first draft poem:
- 4 Stanzas
- Detailed ideas
- Peer Review: Read others work and offer feedback -- something you like in the writing and something you question or suggest (Stars and Wishes)