7th Grade -- Printed & Online Teaching Manual + Grading by Design™ + video lessons (1 student)

Designed for the 7th-grade teacher, this package includes the following:

• Writing by Design® Printed Teaching Manual
• Writing by Design® Online Teaching Manual (1 teacher license) for off-site planning and computer projection.  Optional annual renewal after first year, $50.
• Grading by Design™ online grading for unit writing assessments
• Free password-protected access to supporting documents and teaching resources

 Teaching Manuals

Each manual provides step-by-step comprehensive lesson plans for instruction of genre-specific writing: (1) Personal Narrative, (2) Summary of Informative Text, (3) Informative: Classification, and (4) Argument.

 Lessons are supported by:

• Rubrics
• Model Papers
• Introductory Six Traits lessons
• Pictorials and lesson references to Six Traits and Genre Charts
• Reproducible student handouts and worksheets
• Common Core Standards alignment
• “No Excuse Spelling” K-8 and grade-specific word lists
• Revision and Editing tools and exercises
• Supportive lesson resources
• Differentiated teaching tips for ELL and students with special needs
• Writing strategies
• Engaging beginnings and conclusions
• Figurative language definitions and examples
• Advanced Parts of Speech/Word Choice examples
• Academic language reference
• Authentic Assessments
• Lesson-specific recommended picture books
• Spanish-translated resources

Grading by Design™

Finally…Assessment software to alleviate tedious hours grading student writing! Powerful benefits:

• Student reflection and analysis to promote a deeper understanding of concepts
• Real-time student and teacher feedback
• Individual and class reports
• Aggregation of skill-based student responses (excellent teaching tool)
• Automatic class profiles reflect levels of proficiency and areas for whole-class or small group re-teaching

Steps for Ease of Use:

1. Teacher selects a unit assessment for email distribution to students
2. Students compose written responses to assessment prompt
3. Students upload their written response and conduct a self-analysis of their understanding of concepts by selecting the elements of their writing that match rubric components. Students submit matching elements by copy-pasting them into the scoring template.
4. Teacher verifies the accuracy of student-selected samples of rubric components
5. Grading by Design™ software automatically generates the following:

• Teacher opportunities to comment on student work
• Whole class aggregated samples of student rubric responses
• Real-time individual student feedback
• Class profiles/reports

Writing by Design® uses recommended picture books, which are listed here.