Scholar Zone Summer Reading & Writing | Gr7 Teacher's Guide

EXPLORATION: Around the World Planning & Pacing

Grade 7 I Week 1

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Day 3

Day 4

Read-Aloud Excerpt from Refugee, TG & SH pp. 6–7 (cont.)

Read-Aloud Excerpt from North, TG & SH pp. 8–9 Reading Instruction Fearless, TG pp. 16–17 (cont.)

Read-Aloud Excerpt from North, TG & SH pp. 8–9 (cont.)

Read-Aloud Excerpt from Refugee, TG & SH pp. 6–7

Whole Class

Book Club

Book Club

Introduce Book Club books to whole class. For background about each book, see the corresponding lesson in the TG. • Crocodile Rescue! • Lost in the Amazon • Shackles From the Deep • Tiger Rescue

Small Group

Rotate after 20 minutes

Reading Instruction Fearless, TG pp. 16–17

Book Club

Reading Instruction A Girl Named Disaster, TG pp. 18–19

Teacher helps students pick Book Club books and form Book Clubs. Writing & Speaking Introduce focused

Independent/ Partner Work

Writing & Speaking Guide students to write an informative/ explanatory threats faced by young people in this excerpt of Refugee. paragraph describing

Writing & Speaking

Writing & Speaking

Whole Class*

Guide students to revise and present their paragraph relating to Refugee.

After reading Fearless , have

writing type for the unit: informative/ explanatory writing, TG pp. 93–95.

students make a two-column chart with the headings Real and Fictional . Ask students to evaluate details in the story as real or fictional and record them on their charts.

* There are a variety of writing activities included with all lesson types: Read-Alouds, Teacher-Led Reading Instruction, and Book Club titles. Feel free to substitute any of these activities during the Writing & Speaking part of the day. 4 Scholar Zone Summer: Reading & Writing

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