Language Arts Curriculum Grades 7-8
Background Information
The continuation of the writing workshop model at the middle school level is important in the development and maintenance of a coherent writing curriculum. To this end, the Nancy Atwell text, Lessons That Change Writers, was selected as a teacher resource by the Language Arts Curriculum Committee for seventh and eighth grade teachers as they implement a coherent writing curriculum at the middle school level. There will be on-going professional development provided by the curriculum adoption specialists.
Curriculum Guides
- Grade 7
- Grade 8 (in development)
Curriculum Materials
- Spelling Sourcebook by Rebecca Sitton, www.sittonspelling.com/
© 2002-2007 Egger Publishing. All Rights Reserved.
- Step Up to Writing, Maureen Auman, www.readwriteconnect.com/
- Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie Atwell, http://books.heinemann.com/products/0506.asp
Copyright© 2006 firsthand. All Rights Reserved.
- Mechanically Inclined, Jeff Anderson
www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewprd.asp?idProduct=8960&r=&REFERER
- Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray
http://books.heinemann.com/products/E00750.aspx
Copyright© 2006 firsthand. All Rights Reserved.
- Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide, Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
http://books.heinemann.com/products/E00362.aspx#description
- K-10 Grade Level Expectations: Writing GLEs Book www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/reading/pubdocs/ReadingEALR-GLE.pdf
Optional Text:
- A Writers Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within, Ralph Fletcher
www.harpercollins.com/books/9780380784301/A_Writers_Notebook/index.asp
- Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner
www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idProduct=8956
- Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, Nancie Atwell
www.namingtheworld.com/features.asp
Updated 11/6/07.