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Spring Reading Attitude Survey Part One
Spring Reading Attitude Survey Part Two
Cliche_List
Conflict Quiz
Main Idea practice link
Sample Character Traits
ISAT Test Questions
Test Prep Practice
Fact and Opinion Practice Links
Analogies Practice Links
Main Idea Practice
Are you ready to enter The Zone? Don't be scared... the Reading Zone is a place where you will travel, wonder, laugh, cry, worry, rage, and triumph with characters you love. It's like seeing a movie in your head while you read a book... but better. You'll see what I'm talking about as we advance further.
Do you love to write? We are looking for staff members of this year's In Focus literary magazine. 7th graders see Mrs. Tripp and 8th graders should see Ms. Kaminski. Even if you aren't interested in editing or producing the quarterly publication, submissions are being accepted beginning in September for our first issue, due out in November. You can access the last issue of the magazine by clicking link to helpful links. There is a word document located there with a copy of the magazine. |
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This year we will focus on the following text structures:
1. Problem/Solution
2. Description
3. Sequence
4. Cause and Effect
5. Compare and Contrast
We will also be focusing on the following skills:
1. Summarizing
2. Finding the main idea
3. Distinguishing fact from opinion
Come back soon to find links to online magazines that feature expository text appropriate for your age group. In the meantime, read a newspaper for awesome examples of expository!
Link to Excellence in Expository |
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Click here to make your own mini book! Stapleless book
Improve your vocabulary while you save the world!!! Play the word game below. For every correct answer, the website will donate ten grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. You can check on the box to make the words easier or harder.
Online Quiz to Stop Hunger
Link to For Fun |
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Use these links to practice the skills you learned in each lesson
Unit One
Gum Lesson 1 Subjects and predicates
Gum Lesson 2 Simple_Subjects _and_Predicates
Gum Lesson 3 Compound_subjects_and_predicates
Gum Lesson 4 Direct_Objects_Practice
Gum Lesson 5 Indirect_Objects_Practice
Gum Lesson 6 Predicate_nouns_and_adjectives
Gum Lesson 7 Prepositional_phrases
Gum Lesson 8
Gum Lesson 9 Adverbial_Prepostional_Phrases
Gum Lesson 10 appositives
Unit Two
Gum Lesson 11 Types_of_sentences
Gum Lesson 12 Simple_Compound_and_run-on_sentences
Gum Lesson 13 Dependent_and_Independent_Clauses
Gum Lesson 14 Quiz_on_sentence_types
Gum Lesson 15 Adjective_Clauses
Gum Lesson 16 Adverb_and_Adjective_Clause_Quiz
Gum Lesson 17 Infinitive_Phrases
Gum Lesson 18 Participial_Phrases
Gum Lesson 19 Gerund_Phrases
Gum Lesson 20 Misc_grammar_practice
Unit Three
Gum Lesson 21 - Common and Proper Nouns
Gum Lesson 22 - Plural Nouns 1, Nouns Review, The Plural Girls
Gum Lesson 23 - Possessive Noun Practice, More Possessive Practice
Gum Lesson 24 - Personal, Pronouns
Gum Lesson 25 - Possessive Pronouns
Gum Lesson 27 - Relative Pronouns, Interrogative Pronouns
Gum Lesson 28 - Indefinite Pronouns
Gum Lesson 29 - Adjectives
Gum Lesson 30 - Demonstrative, Demonstrative Pronouns
Unit Four
Gum Lesson 31 - Linking Verbs, Action verbs
Gum Lesson 32 - Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Lesson, More transitive and intransitive verbs
Gum Lesson 33 - Active and Passive Voice, Active to passive transformation, Active and Passive Practice Test
Gum Lesson 34- Tense 1, Tense 2, Tense 3
Gum Lesson 35 - The Perfect Tense, Perfect tense 2
Gum Lesson 36 - Future Progressive Tense,Past Progressive, Present Progressive Tense
Gum Lesson 37 - Adverbs
Gum Lesson 38 - Prepositions
Gum Lesson 39 - Coordinating and subordinating Conjunctions, Basic Coordinating Conjunctions, Basic Subordinating Conjunctions
Gum Lesson 40 - Correlative Conjunctions
Unit Five
Gum Lesson 41 your and you're,
Gum Lesson 42 their, they're, there
Gum Lesson 43 its and it's
Gum Lesson 44 who's and whose
Gum Lesson 45 to, too, two
Gum Lesson 46 than and then
Gum Lesson 47 Negatives
Gum Lesson 48 Other homophone mistakes
Gum Lesson 49 lie and lay, set and sit, commonly mistaken words
Gum Lesson 50 more irregular verbs
Unit Six
Gum Lesson 51 Pronouns
Gum Lesson 52 Subject-Object
Gum Lesson 53 Antecedents
Gum Lesson 54 who-whom, who_whom
Gum Lesson 55 Agreement
Gum Lesson 56 Compoundsubjects
Gum Lesson 57 moreagreement
Gum Lesson 58 dangling_modifiers
Gum Lesson 59 Comparative_and__Superlative_Modifiers
Gum Lesson 60 Auxiliary_Verbs
Unit Seven
Gum Lesson 61 Capitalization, Links for lots more capitalization practice!
Gum Lesson 62 Abbreviation
Gum Lesson 63 Titles
Gum Lesson 64 Possessives, Contractions and a4esl
Gum Lesson 65 Commas
Gum Lesson 66 Direct Address and Introductory Words
Gum Lesson 67 Independent Clauses, Colons
Gum Lesson 68 Parentheses and Hyphens
Gum Lesson 69 Indirect Quotations and Direct Quotations
Gum Lesson 70 Letter_Generator
Unit Review
Link to Grammar/GUM Practice |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Every week we will read and discuss a poem during class. If you lost your copy of the poems, they can be found in the two attached documents below.
These poems make great journal entries! Start looking for your favorite poems by famous authors... maybe one week they can be featured in class! Lately we've been reading the poetry of Kenn Nesbitt. Check out more of his poetry by clicking the link here. Giggle Poetry
We will practice identifying and writing the following types of figurartive language. Click on the links below for practice!
1. alliteration
2. onomatopoeia
3. simile
4. metaphor
5. personification
6. assonance
Figurative Language Jeopardy
Literary Terms Practice
Onomatopoeia Practice
Idiom game
More Idiom Practice
For our Idiom assignment, refer to the following websites
Some Common Idioms and Their Meanings
Common Idioms
List of Idioms
Idiom Dictionary
Link to Poem-A-Week |
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Here is a free flashcard maker sight that you might want to use to learn the words. Click the link below.
Quizlet
Abra Vocabra Word List Fourteen
1. seethe
2. incompatible
3. paunch
4. proprietor
5. vermin
6. smitten
7. fickle
8. gaunt
9. meddle
10. kleptomaniac
B1. astute
B2. filibuster
Link to Vocabulary |
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Working on a poem? Check out this Online Rhyming Dictionary or Another Rhyming Dictionary
Can't think of anything to write about during W.W.? Click below for lots of ideas. I'm sure many of the topics and assignments will suit you. Writers' Workshop Ideas
Get Published this Year!
Would you like to see your name in print? And know that people all over the world are reading your words? It's really quite easy to publish a book review. You must attempt publication at least once this school year, and here are some sites that are looking for your reviews:
BookHooks
CPL book reviews
Kid Lit
On-Lion for Kids
Scholastic
Link to Writers' Workshop Room 207 |
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