Language Arts Curriculum Grades 7-8
Curriculum Guides
- Grade 7
- Grade 8 (in development)
Curriculum Materials
- Summer Reading List, Intermediate
- Summer Reading List, Middle School
- Spelling Sourcebook, Rebecca Sitton
- Step Up to Writing, Maureen Auman
- Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie Atwell
- Mechanically Inclined, Jeff Anderson
- Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray
- Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide, Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
- K-10 Grade Level Expectations, Writing GLEs Book
Optional Text:
- A Writers Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within, Ralph Fletcher
- Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner
- Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, Nancie Atwell
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.