7th Grade Summer Lesson

Writing a Summer Bucket List Essay Example, Graphic Organizer, and Template can be a fun and interesting project for your students. This provides them with the opportunity to think about what they want to do during the summer and share it with their peers! This packet includes information to share with your students about what a summer bucket list is, and why we write for information.

Students will learn about the following before writing a summer bucket list essay, students will learn about why they write for information, and rules to follow when writing a summer bucket list essay and what should be included.

An example of three possible writing topics and a summer bucket list essay example is provided. Three graphic organizer templates, an essay template, and a rough draft or final draft essay template. At the end of the product, there is a reminder checklist, to help remind students to go back and check their work once it is completed.

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Are you on the hunt for an end of the year activity for your ESL secondary students that jumpstarts summer plans? This ELL project will provide plenty of opportunities for your students to practice speaking and writing. Students present their project boards to their peers. The project should take around 2 hours to complete. 

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit has A LOT of ready to use activities for your students. You have the ability to start summer off with engaging activities.

What’s Included:

• 16 templated ready to go slides that you will assign to students so they can create their Summer Plans Slides
• Linked vocabulary PDFs on the slides so students can have EXTRA vocabulary support (weather vocabulary, summer activities, summer foods and summer clothes)
• Vocaroo Voice Links to have directions and slides READ ALOUD to students
• Clear Directions on how to do the project and insert photos
• Language frames built in to help multilingual students with their writing and speaking
• A place for them to insert a photo on each slide for their presentations
• Engaging secondary topics and themes for multilingual learners

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The end of the year does not mean you have to be stressed out about planning and creating resources. You can have fun with this awesome project! You don’t want to miss out on this FUN. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Enhance student language skills with 14 Summer Word of the Day digital vocabulary activities. Boost student. reading, speaking, and writing abilities. The engaging mini-lessons will grow vocabulary and improve communication .

The POWERPOINT is ideal for upper elementary and middle school, ELL and ESL classrooms.

The predictable and repetitive format of this SUMMER VOCAB lesson is perfect to set students up for success. The class will know what to expect each day and in what order, which makes classroom procedures run much more efficiently.

These vocabulary words are commonly found in student reading materials. The fresh Summer Vocab will empower your students and build confidence in speaking, writing, and develop a deeper understanding of the English language.

Each page features:

• Vibrant Vocab slides (look at above thumbnail for vocabulary words )

-bold photos appear without word for inference making

-vocab word 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word

-part of speech

-concise definition

• Use the vocabulary word in a sentence slide

• **Quizlet practice link-**practice independently or as a whole class before the assessment

• **Grammar and Connotation Sort-**display the sort and have students put the vocabulary words into the correct category

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

What skills do Word of the Day Activities cover?

*Greater understanding of the English language

*Word meaning

*Correct word usage

*Parts of speech

*Spelling

*Connotation

*Proper pronunciation

*Critical thinking skills

Endless uses in the classroom:

*Group discussions

*Guide a study group

*Prompt a writing piece

*Word Wall

*Printables for interactive notebook

*Word of the Day

Enjoy!

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Enhance student language skills with 14 Word of the Day digital activities. Boost reading, speaking, and writing abilities. The engaging lessons will grow vocabulary and improve communication .

Ideal for upper elementary, ELL and ESL classrooms.

The predictable and repetitive format of this Word of the Day is perfect to set students up for success. The class will know what to expect each day and in what order which makes classroom procedures run much more efficiently.

These vocabulary words are commonly found in student reading materials. The Word of the Day will empower your students to build confidence in speaking, writing, and develop a deeper understanding of the English language.

Each page features:

• Vibrant Vocab slides (look at above thumbnail for vocabulary words )

-bold photos appear without word for inference making

-vocab word 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word

-part of speech

-concise definition

• Use the vocabulary word in a sentence slide
• **Quizlet practice link-**practice independently or as a whole class before the assessment
• **Grammar and Connotation Sort-**display the sort and have students put the vocabulary words into the correct category

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

What skills do Word of the Day Activities cover?

*Greater understanding of the English language

*Word meaning

*Correct word usage

*Parts of speech

*Spelling

*Connotation

*Proper pronunciation

*Critical thinking skills

Endless uses in the classroom:

*Group discussions

*Guide a study group

*Prompt a writing piece

*Word Wall

*Printables for interactive notebook

*Word of the Day

Enjoy!

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Extended School Year (ESY) Activity Bundles are the perfect way to save time this summer! This Special Education Summer Unit it is 45 pages of Extended School Year: Special Education 'Summer Time' Unit Fun! Keep your kids engaged and entertained while they work on their reading, math, and fine motor skills activities. This extended school year unit includes two levels of each activity so you can customize each ESY Summer Activity to meet each child’s individual needs. With fun summer-themed ESY activities, your child will stay motivated and excited to learn this summer!

This product is part of YEAR LONG HOLIDAY UNIT BUNDLE.

Holidays Included:

1. Back to School
2. Veteran's Day
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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7. St. Patrick's Day
8. Groundhog Day
9. Summer
10. Columbus Day

What's in a bundle?

• Unit Lesson Plans
• Holiday Book
• Adapted Holiday Book
• Vocabulary Words
• Comprehension Practice
• Tracing
• Matching
• Counting
• Cutting
• Coloring

Each Unit includes a few of the following:

• Patterns
• Adding
• Subtracting
• Money
• Graphing
• More or Less Than
• Shapes

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Celebrate summer with this engaging communal story-telling activity!

"Summer Collaborative Story Time" is a communal story-telling activity in which students practice using Freytag's Pyramid plot structure in their own narrative writing. In this activity, each student begins a story inspired by a unique summery-themed photograph. They are prompted to write the exposition of the tale by introducing the setting and main characters. After the allotted amount of time, the story is then passed to another student who is prompted to write the inciting incident or conflict and begin to detail the rising action. The paper is passed from student to student twice more until the story is resolved. When the stories are finished, the worksheet is returned to the original student who can then make edits and is responsible for producing a final draft.

With this intrinsically engaging activity, each student has the chance to tap into their creativity while applying knowledge of the 7 steps of Freytag's Pyramid. It is a great activity to introduce or reinforce the plot diagram and is ideal for the end of the year or in summer school. Since it runs itself, the lesson is also great for substitute plans or on those days when you need a quick plan to get you through the day. I trust you will find that your students will ask for this activity again and again!

Product Includes:

• 31 unique "Collaborative Story Time" worksheets with summer pictures and photographs (2-sided)
• 1 blank worksheet so that you may include your own picture or photograph

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Since your students will be BEGGING to do this activity again:

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⭐ Fall Themed Collaborative Writing Activity

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⭐ Christmas Collaborative Writing Activity

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AVID End of Year | Summer Activity - Build a Costa Sandcastle Digital Resource: This digital lesson and activity is the perfect summer-themed resource to use at the end of the school year. This is perfect for building critical thinking skills in your AVID classroom! Use it as an inquiry icebreaker activity, a supplemental lesson for Costa's Level of Thinking, an inquiry lesson, a Fun Friday activity, or even for your end-of-year party!

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Directions:

• This 20 interactive Google Slides presentation first goes over Costa's level of thinking with details and examples for all 3 levels.
• Then students will follow directions on drawing or creating their own Costa sandcastle while answering leveled questions on the way!
• After students create their sandcastles and answer the Costa questions about them, they will write their own questions based on a summer scene!

What's Included:

• Essential questions slide
• 7 Costa's Level of Thinking teach slides
• 9 direction slides with step-by-step directions on how to create a Costa sandcastle and leveled questions for students to answer about their snowmen
• 1 slide with a winter scene where students will write their own leveled questions!

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