Grade 7 / 7^th Grade

Grammar and Writing Skills

Climbing to Good English
By: SchoolAid
We have combined the seventh and eighth grades in much the same way as the fifth and sixth with enough lessons, unit tests and end-of-term tests to provide for 3 lessons per week. Practice sheets can fill out the week to five lessons or for homework.

Climbing to Good English 7 (CGE 7) and CGE 8 are the last books in this eight-book series and tie together loose ends other curriculums deal with farther on. This should in no way hinder the student who chooses to continue his formal education. It may, in fact, help him even more. Students reach the level where they are expected to rely on their own resources most of the time. Of course this greatly depends on the kind of foundation students have been given, and whether they have been taught to help themselves. Detailed teacher instructions in the annotated teacher's edition guide you in having the pupils take the initiative.

After a few review lessons, the basic grammar is reinforced and new concepts added. The emphasis on composition is strengthened, since effective writing is our major goal in teaching English.

LANGUAGE SKILLS TAUGHT WRITING • Paraphrasing/Summarizing • Writing Summaries • Taking & Organizing Notes • Writing Your Report • Outline Form for Study • Letter Form and Quality • Business Letters • Everyday Letters • Poetic Figures of Speech • Writing Short Verse • Writing Longer Poems • Improving Writing Style • Use Phrases to Save Words • Phrases and Clauses • More Word-Saving Tricks • Variety In Sentences • Common Pitfalls of Writers • Story Writing with Dialogue • Live writing • Writing with a Flourish • Good Endings • Writing Short Stories SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS • More About Sentences • Developing Good Paragraphs • Writing Paragraphs • Tying Ideas Together • Connecting Paragraphs • Revising and Proofreading • Order In a Paragraph • Revising and Proofreading PUNCTUATION, ETC • Capitalization and Punctuation • Improving Your Vocabulary • Finding the Right Words • Writing Numbers • More About Commas • Parentheses and Dashes • Colons and Semicolons • Quotations NOUNS AND PRONOUNS • Identifying Nouns • Noun Forms • Subject-Verb Agreement • Using Nouns as Complements (Direct and Indirect Objects) • Using Nouns as Subject Complements • Using Nouns as Appositives and Direct Address • Using Exact & Vivid Nouns • Special Problems with Pronouns • Pronoun Agreement • Puzzling Pronouns ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS • Using Adjectives Correctly and Effectively • Adverbs • Using Adverbs Correctly and Effectively VERBS • Identifying Verbs • Verbs In Harder Sentences • Understanding Verb Forms • Verb Tense Agreement • Using Exact & Vivid Verbs • Verb Usage • Gerunds • Complements PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS • Using Prepositional Phrases Effectively • Using Prepositions Correctly • Conjunctions • More Conjunctions; Interjections

Climbing to Good English Workbook 7
• 278 pages

Climbing to Good English
Practice Sheets 7
• 67 practice lessons

Climbing to Good English 7/8 Teacher Manual
• shows filled in copies of the student workbook pages
• 170 pages

Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Pathway Step By Step Books and Working With Words

Seeking True Values Reader, Workbook,
and Teacher Samples Pages

Pathway Seeking True Values Reader
• 462 pages, 112 stories and poems
• hardcover reader
• interesting, thought provoking situations and characters
• keeps children's interest and focus on the curriculum
• lessons in virtues from the lives of people of faith
• does not promote Amish doctrine and is suitable for anyone looking for solid, moral-based literature
• has "Thinking It Over" questions at the end of the stories and "Word Study" lists

Pathway Seeking True Values Workbook
• 87 pages
• trains the children to work independently with a minimun of teacher assistance
• children should do as much as possible on their own
• contains "Thinking About the Story" questions

Pathway Seeking True Values
Teacher Edition
• shows the workbook pages and the lesson answers
• save time in checking the student's work

Working With Words 7
Workbook and Teacher Sample Pages

Working With Words: Workbook 7
• 96 pages
• designed to train the children to work independently
• children should do as much as possible on their own
• Working With Words has vocabulary building exercises, word usage practice, adding prefixes and suffixes, review pages, and tests after every 8 lessons

Working With Words: Teacher 7
• 96 pages
• shows the workbook pages and the lesson answers
• save time in checking the student's work