Seventh Grade English

English 7 (a required one-year course)

This literature-based program is designed to further develop the students’ reading strategies: questioning, predicting, inferring, clarifying, summarizing, and evaluating. Students read several novels in addition to short stories, non-fiction, and informational selections. We concentrate on the basic reading comprehension skills: main idea, details, sequence, cause/effect, fact/opinion, inference, and point of view.

Seventh grade includes an intense introduction to academic research. A collaborative unit with the St. Margaret’s librarians focuses on accessing quality information and evaluating resources.

Extensive time is also spent on the instruction and practice of the essential traits of a good writer: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions (grammar), and presentation. Students further refine their writing skills by following the step-by-step process for developing essays of various types.