Common Core Standards
Grade 7
Writing W.7.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
Since there are three other Common Core Standards describing exactly how to fulfill this standard, we're not going to spend much time on this one. Just make sure that students are writing in a way that makes sense for the form of writing they're doing. Of course, if a student wants to write a persuasive essay in short story form, then we say, "go for it!"
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Follow the Thread
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching American Born Chinese: Are You There, God? It's Me, Monkey King
- Teaching A Little Princess: Follow the Leader
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Pizza Problems—Too Many to Count
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Sliding Through History
- Teaching Farewell to Manzanar: Every Picture Tells a Story
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching When You Reach Me: The Write Stuff
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The Fault in Our Stars: It's in the Details – Plot and Themes
- Teaching Out of the Dust: Art Imitates Life
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Channeling Winn-Dixie
- Teaching Where the Red Fern Grows: An Instance of Persistence
- The Basics of Social Media: Communicating with One to One Million People: Blogs and Instant Messaging
- Teaching Dragonwings: Story Elements Game
- Teaching Ella Enchanted: TWIST-ed Storytelling
- Teaching Flowers for Algernon: The Final Report
- Teaching Freak the Mighty: Memories Real and Imagined
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Ode to a Static or Dynamic Character
- Teaching Number the Stars: Good to See You Again…
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Not Another Janice Avery!
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Building Bridges
- Internet Safety and Ethics: The Golden Rule Goes Online: Preventing and Stopping Cyberbullying
- Internet Safety and Ethics: Oh No, You Didn't!: Internet Dangers and Strategies for Staying Safe
- Teaching Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.: Different Strokes for Different Folks
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Twilight Activity: The Cullen Cars
- Teaching Monster: Who Am I?
- Teaching Monster: The Last Scene
- Teaching Murder on the Orient Express: The Mysterious Story
- Teaching Freak the Mighty: Becoming Freak