Seventh Grade Reading Workshop
Reading Units of Study may include:
- Tapping the Power of Nonfiction:Upper middle grade readers determine central ideas and supporting details in nonfiction texts. They read critically, synthesizing across texts and analyzing informational texts that contradict each other.
- Investigating Characterization: Author Study Book Clubs: Upper middle grade readers stretch to think beyond character and into characterization - understanding that characters are complex, and these complexities are revealed in moments or scenes, or through an author's techniques like perspective, point of view, and the management of time across a fiction text.
- Historical Fiction Book Clubs: Upper middle grade readers analyze characters in historical fiction texts, including how characters respond to problems and how traits collide with the demands of an era.
Seventh grade readers could be reading fiction books like Elijah of Buxton, One Crazy Summer, Weedflower, When My Name was Keoko, The Crossover, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Okay for Now, or Anything But Typical.
Seventh grade readers could be reading nonfiction texts like Irena's Children, Courage and Defiance, Lost in the Pacific, 1942, or A Place to Hide.