Daily Paragraph Editing grade 7 provides 36 weeks of frequent, focused language practice to help your seventh graders learn the conventions of standard English grammar and usage. The concise daily activities are ideal “warm-up” exercises to begin your language arts block and are adaptable for small-group and whole-class instruction.
 
How it works: students apply grade-level language skills to correct a paragraph on Monday through Thursday; when read together, the four paragraphs form a cohesive composition. A writing prompt on Friday relates to the week’s four-paragraph composition and gives students the chance to apply the targeted language conventions.
 
*The weekly compositions cover a broad range of expository and narrative writing forms, including:

-nonfiction texts on grade-level social studies and science topics
-biographies, book reviews, instructions, interviews, journal entries, and letters
-fables, fantasy and science fiction, historical fiction, personal narratives,
-and realistic fiction

*Daily Paragraph Editing grade 7 covers grade-level skills such as:

-Capitalization

quotations,
salutations, and closings
incorrect use of capitals
names of people, places, and organizations
titles of books, magazines, movies, and songs

-Language Usage

singular and plural forms
verb tenses
correct use of pronouns and adjectival and adverbial forms

-Punctuation

apostrophes
commas
periods
quotation marks
colons, semicolons, and more!

-Spelling

identifying errors in spelling and in multiple-meaning words