Students will create a PowerPoint Presentation after completing reading The Giver.

Students will use note taking skills to paraphrase notes on third-person-point-of-view. Notes will provide and promote better writing when writing various text, constructed responses, and extended responses. Notes are excellent for understand which point of view a piece of text is written from, and changing a point of view when writing.

Seventh grade students will develop a student friendly dictionary as an end-of-the year project. Tier 2 vocabulary terms are used as a source for 8th grade writing.

Students will create flashcards to use as a study tool. Text structures for creating cards are: Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, Chronological Order, Cause/ Effect, and Sequence/ Order.

This activity allows for stations activities on various Language Arts skills, through the usage of text reading from the novel.

RAFTS is a strategy utilized in writing and reading to better assist students in understand the role of a writer, the audience, varied formats for writing, and the topic they'll be reading and then writing about. This strategy inspires students to write more creatively, and use critical thinking skills in order to experience writing from different audiences. A greater meaning of this strategy enhances understanding of informational text.

This is an excellent resource for teaching students how to write an informal letter. The activity also assist students in developing paragraphs within a writing piece.

The plural nouns sheet is an awesome way for students have a hands on guide while learning the rules of plural nouns.