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7 Grade Writing Workbook
2nd Term

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Al Bayan Model School for Girls, Jeddah

‫بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم‬

Dear Students,

This book has been designed and prepared for your own benefit and comfort.
It is one way to save you some time, to help you to be more organized and to
have everything where they belong.

This book will help you with your lessons and vocabulary and emphasizes
more on improving your writing skills which will in turn help in developing
all your language skills.

Wishing you all the best in your life!!!

Prepared and compiled by your teachers

Under the superior guidance of our coordinator

Mrs. Nashwa Anbar

(Head of English Department 4-9)

Al- Bayan Model School for Girls.

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WRITING
1. Proofreading………………………….…5- 7
2. Elements of Story ……………………… 8- 12
3. Writing Research Report…………………13- 15
4. Descriptive Writing…………………….. 16- 18
5. Persuasive Writing……………………… 19- 22
6. Picture Composition (1)……………………23 -25
7. Picture Composition (2)………………… …26- 28
8. Handwriting worksheets…………………..29- 32

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Proofread and Fix Each Paragraph

Read each paragraph below. Cross out all capitalizing mistakes, misspelled words,
or incorrect punctuation. Above each mistake, write the correct letter, word, or
punctuation mark. Write in the correct punctuation if it is missing.

The blue wale is the bigest animal on earth some are as long as

100 foots and weighing 300,000 pounds? In the late 1800s and

early 1900s these gentle jiants were hunted almost to

extinction because humans wanted their bluber to make oil fuel

soap and candles. their baleen was used to make brushes and

corsets. the blue wale population is now only one percent of it’s

original size.

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In order to remain helty, you must eat good nutritious food.

breakfast is very important espeshally if your going to school

because you cant pay atention if your hungy. You should eat

frutes and vegetebles with every meel and avoid food that is

high in kolesterol and saturated fat. Its also important to drink

alot of likwids every day.

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Anthony Visits Nick

On sunday, Anthony went over to Nicks house to play basketball.

They played a gam of one-on-one. Anthony made six baskets,

bute nick made eight Nick was the winner. After the game, both

boys whent in side to have some snack’s and watch television.

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Rearrange the scrambled sentences below by putting them in order.

Rewrite the sentences in the correct order using capitalization and
punctuation rules.

Danielle sat down hard in her seat she could Not believe they were doing
Worksheets instead of an experiment?

finally, the bell rang and Danielle raced out of ms. sullivan’s English class.

She entered the Lab only to find that there was a substitute there for mr
Henry.

Mr. Henry told his Science class yesterday that they were going to perform a
science Experiment today.

danielle could Not wait to get to science class?

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CH 22: Writing #1 ELEMENTS OF A NOVEL Pg: 608-610

Write the elements of a story / novel and your point of view as a reviewer

TITLE:

Elements of a story Examples Positive or Negative Reviewer’s

Words or Phrases point
of view
PLOT
(Series of related
events that make up a
story. The events revolve
around a central problem,
or conflict, which must be
resolved before the story
ends.)

Positive words:
Main Character
(Central person in the
story.)
Negative words:

Positive words:
Setting
(Time and place of a
story)
Negative words:

Look at the positive and negative words and phrases and decide what the

The reviewer does not think "Snow- White" is a ________________________ because the main

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CH22: Worksheet # 1 WRITING: Finishing a short story. Pg 617

Like a novel, a short story has characters, a setting and a conflict.

A good story has suspense, dialogue, description, sensory details and that its resolution ties up loose ends.
To write a story,
 Brainstorm characters, settings and conflicts.

Main character setting conflict

What does he / she look Where does the story take place?
like? When does the story take place?
How old is the character? What sensory details help the reader
What does he/ she like to imagine the setting?
do?

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Writing Practice – Finish the Story

THE SNOW DAY

Directions: Read the story below. Then finish it with your own writing.

My sister woke me up early this morning. She ran into my room before the alarm clock went off.
“Look outside!” she yelled.
I got out of bed and looked out the window. All that I could see was white snow! There was a man
shoveling the sidewalk in front of our house.
Mom came into the room. She brought us each a mug of hot chocolate.
“No school today!” she said. I was very happy. My sister was happy, too.
Mom left the room to find our snow clothes. She gave me my blue snowsuit. She also gave me a
hat and mittens.
“What are you going to do today with no school?” she asked.

Helping Box: invite – gather – prepare – heavy snow – hot chocolate–

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 First Draft of your story:

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Final Draft of your story: Helping Box: invite – gather – prepare – heavy snow – hot chocolate – fun together

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Writing Practice – Finish the Story

Directions: Read the story below. Then finish it with your own writing.

Allison had a bad night on Saturday. She went to the Smith’s house to babysit their son, Jake, and
daughter, Lisa. Jake is four years old. He gets into a lot of trouble. He started the night by pouring his
glass of milk all over the floor during dinner.
“Clean that up,” Allison ordered.
“You can’t tell me what to do,” Jake responded. He ran away from the dinner table.
“I’m bored. I want to play a game,” Lisa whined.
“Jake, if you clean up your mess we can play a game,” Allison said.
“Okay,” Jake said. Allison gave him a handful of paper towels and he used them to clean up the
milk. “I want to play hide-and-seek,” he said.
“Okay, I will be the seeker first,” Allison said. “You two have thirty seconds to hide!” Allison
covered her eyes with her hands and counted slowly from one to thirty.
“Ready or not, here I come!” she called. Allison walked downstairs and peeked into the kitchen
closet. Nobody was inside. She checked under the couches in the living room. She looked in the garage.
Allison decided that nobody was hiding downstairs, so she walked upstairs and continued her search. She
opened the door to Lisa’s bedroom and found her hiding under the bed.
“I found you!” she squealed. “Okay, now help me find Jake,” she told Lisa. Allison and Lisa
searched all over the house. They could not find Jake.
“It has been twenty minutes and he is nowhere in sight,” Allison thought. “I wonder where he is.”

Now, finish the story with your own words.

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CH 23: Writing # 2 Outlining of Research Report Pg660

 An outline is a plan for your report. It shows how you are grouping and
gathering the order in which you will present the information in your
Research Report.
Choose any unusual animal and gather the information about it. Give outline to the
information as a research report and paste the picture along with it below in the box.

Where does it live?

How does it look like?

What does it do?

How does it get along

with people?

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FIRST DRAFT Helping Box: Guanaco – lives- mountains- looks- wool – hoof – lifespan- hunted

Research Report

Topic Researched:
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1. I chose this topic because:

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2. The most interesting things I learned from my research are:

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3. From my research I found that:

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4. The information about my topic came from:

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FINAL DRAFT Helping Box: Guanaco – lives- mountains- looks- wool – hoof – lifespan- hunted

Research Report

Topic Researched:
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1. I chose this topic because:

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CH 23: Writing # 3 DESCRIPTIVE WRITING Pg671

Write a descriptive essay about a place that is important to you. Explain things that make
this place special to you. Use the words from the help box to complete your essay.

Introduction- short history about the place- a description of a place

physical features of place - conclusion

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First Draft: Helping Box: favorite- porch – room – tidy – special –gathers- time – grandmother-
special place

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Final Draft: Helping Box: favorite- porch – room – tidy – special –gathers- time – grandmother-
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CH24 : WRITING # 4 Persuasive Letter .Pg 689 Date: __________

Write a persuasive paragraph on recycling. Give reasons for your opinion.

State the Topic

Reason

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First Draft:
Helping Box: importance- recycling- pollution – waste – environment
– recycle – reduce- economy- preserve- resource

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FINAL DRAFT:
Helping Box: importance- recycling- pollution – waste – environment
– recycle – reduce- economy- preserve- resource

Now, write a letter based on the organizer

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(Audience) Date
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Typed or
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WRITING: 5 PICTURE COMPOSITION (1) Date: ___________________________

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FIRST DRAFT
Helping Box: cyclists – lorry – travelling- slowly – motorcycle –approach-
carelessly – accident

Now, write a paragraph based on the picture.

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Helping Box: cyclists – lorry – travelling- slowly – motorcycle –approach-

FINAL DRAFT: carelessly – accident

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WRITING: 6 PICTURE COMPOSITION (2)

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Join the correct part of the sentence in List B with each part in List A.

A B
1) Peter's father is beginning
2) Peter is painting the room, too. A) and painting the floor.
3) He is lying down on a piece of wood. B) but they cannot drink it.
4) Mrs. Green is giving Peter and his C) because there is wet paint on the floor.
father some tea D) and painting the ceiling.
5) They cannot take the tea from her E) because he wants to help his father.
6) Peter and his father are kneeling F) and they are looking puzzled.
down G) to paint a room.
7) They are finishing painting the room H) because they are holding brushes and
8) They cannot get out of the room cans.

FIRST DRAFT
Now, write a paragraph based on the picture.

Helping Box: painting – cup – tea – brush – get out – wet – floor – paint

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Handwriting Worksheets
Week 1:
1. He had to work hard to reach his goal.

Week 2:
2. The waiter brought us some ice water.

Week 3:
3. There is a bee flying around him and you.

Week 4:
4. The book was better than the movie.

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Week 5:
5. The day started well.

Week 6:
6. Did Alia seem sad to you?

Week 7:
7. The airplane was parked in a hangar.

Week 8:
8. This tie looks all right with that blue shirt.

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Week 9:
9. I can make a lot of my mom’s recipes.

Week 10:
10. Please bring that chair here.

Week 11:
11. The sun has scarcely shone today.

Week 12:
12. They were supposed to join us at the gate.

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Week 13:
13. The lake is over there.

Week 14:
14. Reiko asked, "Have you finished your report?”

Week 15:
15. Either Mom or Dad will drive us to the show.

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The End

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