Grade 7 Reading and Writing Course
Congratulations! You have taken a very important step in your successful junior high English Language Arts learning journey by choosing to take this course.
Yes, by following this course guide, applying the unique how-to strategies, you will achieve two important goals: getting more correct answers in reading comprehension and writing better.
This course is designed for you to study for 20 weeks. All together, you will watch 40 specially-created instructional videos, two for each week; practice comprehending 40 different types of texts, also two for each week; write 16 paragraphs or essays. By completing all the guided tasks, you will become a stronger reader and a better writer, therefore improving your ELA marks in school.
Each week, you are expected to spend enough time, ideally around two hours, working through different things set out in each week’s plan:
- watch two instructional videos, making notes of what you have learned while watching
- after-read two texts from previous week by following the unique how-to strategies of after-reading using the specific type of text form for after-reading, as well as following after-reading examples, learning everything that is new to you, check the samples to see how well you did.
- write one paragraph or an essay by following unique how-to strategies discussed in videos of How to Understand a Writing Prompt, How to Prepare for Writing G7, 5 Steps to Quality Writing and 3 Levels of One Paragraph and/or Structure of An Informative Essay. Make necessary corrections afterwards.
- practice comprehending two new reading texts by following the unique how-to strategies discussed in videos of How to Pre-Read, How to Do Reading Comprehension, 4 Steps of While-Reading and How to Use Elimination, then check the answers using the answer key.