TEXAS TEST PREP Writing Skills Workbook Guided Practice Grade 7

Updated to Match the Revised TEKS Standards Introduced in 2019-2020!

This workbook is specifically designed to develop writing skills. Students will write in response to passages, as well as write stories, personal narratives, arguments, and essays. Students will gain experience completing research projects and edit and revise their work. This workbook covers the new Revised TEKS writing skills, and will also develop the advanced skills needed to perform well on the STAAR assessments.

Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice
- Ten convenient practice sets allow for ongoing skill development
- Each practice set contains two reading comprehension tasks where students write in response to passages
- Each practice set contains two writing tasks where students write a short story, personal narrative, argumentative text, or essay
- Guided writing tasks include hints, planning activities, and review checklists to guide students and encourage strong skill development
- Each set includes additional core skills exercises that focus on key writing skills
- Gives students ongoing practice analyzing and responding to texts

Key Benefits of this Workbook
- Flexible format allows practice sets to be completed to suit any schedule
- Provides extensive experience analyzing and responding to texts
- Gives students experience with all types of writing tasks
- Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing
- Format allows for review after each set to provide feedback and promote improvement

Preparation for the STAAR Reading Assessments
- Develops the advanced reading comprehension skills needed to perform well on the STAAR Reading tests
- Gives students practice providing written answers
- Prepares students for the constructed response items on the new STAAR Reading online tests

Full Coverage of the TEKS Standards
- Covers the skills in the Composition and the Research and Inquiry sections of the TEKS
- Covers all the types of writing in the TEKS standards, including literary texts, informational texts, argumentative texts, and letters
- Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources
- Passage-based questions give students experience writing responses to texts and develop skills in the Response, Multiple Genres, and Author's Purpose and Craft sections of the TEKS