Blue Seagull Skill Builders: Grade 7 Language Arts

A complete leveled textbook and workbook for Grade 7 language arts, with 50 lessons in 8 units: Sentence Craft; Elements of Fiction; Reading a Novel Closely; Narrative Writing; Reading Informational Texts: Civics; Reading History: Early America; Argument and Persuasion; Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship. Every lesson teaches the skill with a worked example, then gives practice at three levels: Take Off (with hints), Glide (on your own) and Soar (challenge). Extend and Challenge tasks apply each skill to real problems and push deeper thinking. Each lesson is labeled with the standard it practices (Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts). The complete answer key is included at the back of the book. Full-color coil-bound book that lies flat for writing, 8.5 x 11 in, 292 pages.