7th Grade
Seventh graders are asked to analyze texts in detail, including analysis of word choice and interpretation of the narrator's viewpoint.
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Resources for 7th Grade
Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar
Short explanations followed by heavy drill, from McGraw-Hill's long-running self-study series. Cheap, plentiful practice.
Side by Side: Student Book 1 (Third Edition)
A conversation-first beginner course built around guided dialogues, which makes it one of the few ESL books that works with two people at a kitchen table.
Essential Grammar in Use with Answers
Raymond Murphy's elementary grammar reference, built on a two-page unit format that makes it genuinely usable for self-study.
Basic English Grammar Workbook (Azar-Hagen, 5th Edition)
The grammar series most ESL teacher training programs are built around, in workbook form with a full answer key for self-study.
Oxford Picture Dictionary, Third Edition
The standard visual dictionary in ESL classrooms worldwide: roughly 4,000 words organized by real-life situation rather than alphabetically.
English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1: Beginner
The written practice half of DK's Level 1 course. Buy it with the course book, not instead of it.
English for Everyone Course Book Level 1: Beginner
DK's visual self-study English course, built so a complete beginner can work through it alone without a teacher explaining every page.
Late, Lost, and Unprepared
A clinical psychologist's parent guide to executive functioning, organized skill by skill so you can work on the one your child actually struggles with.
How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up
A short, cartoon-illustrated book written directly to kids aged 8-13 about why homework feels awful and what to actually do about it. Read it in an afternoon.
That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week
Ana Homayoun's parent guide to organizing disorganized middle and high schoolers, built on the binder-and-planner system she uses with private clients.
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Newbery Medal biography of an African-born man enslaved in colonial New England who bought his freedom and that of others.
Across Five Aprils
Newbery Honor novel following an southern Illinois farm family through the five Aprils of the American Civil War.