GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE

Practice Makes Perfect!

Grammar is an important part of seventh grade language arts. Since you will be presented with writing for all classes, your work will be expected to be gramatically correct. Grammar can get very complex and will take practice to learn it all correctly. We will focus on various grammar concepts each nine weeks, and online powerpoints and resources will be available to assist with mastery. Remember that if you are having a difficult time with any of these concepts, schedule a time to come in for tutoring.

Check out the grammar games and online quizzes to review parts of speech that have already been presented in elementary school and sixth grade.

Language Standards

For a list, please click here.

ELA websites for general resources, please click 1, 2, 3, 4

Website with multiple language worksheets

ELAGSE7L1

a. Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.

Power Point

Worksheets

Game 1, Game 2, Game 3, Game 4, Game 5

b. Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.

Power Point: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences

Game 1, Game 2, Game 3

c. Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.

Power Point

Game 1, Game 2

ELAGSE7L2

a. Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).

Power Point

Game 1, Game 2

b. Spell correctly.

Power Point Resources (These power points contain all of the spelling words by lessons.)

Lessons 1-10

Lessons 11-15

Lessons 15-20

Lessons 21-30

Games

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ELAGSE7L3

a. Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.

Power Point

Game 1, Additional lesson

ELAGSE7L4

a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

Power Point

Game 1, Game 2

b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).

Power Point: Greek and Latin Roots

Power Point Resource 2

Game 1, Game 2, Game 3

Practice

c. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.

d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).

ELAGSE7L5

a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary, biblical, and mythological allusions) in context.

Power Point Resource

Game 1, Additional lesson

You Tube tutorial

Figurative Language

Power Point Resource

Game 1, Game 2

b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.

Resources

https://www.quia.com/cb/7146.html

Game 1, Game 2, Game 3, Game 4,

Room Recess

Analogy Battleship

Who Want to be an Analogy Word Master

Complete the Analogy

Analogix

c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).

Power Point: connotation & denotation

Game 1, Game 2

ELAGSE7L6

Academic vocabulary and new vocabulary acquisition

Academic vocabulary list

Power Point Resource

Academic vocabulary 1

Academic vocabulary 2

General vocabulary practice