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Teaching Resource
Fluency in Perspective: Grade 7
Last updated 2025/09/11
Description
This is a collection of passages designed to be used for fluency instruction in grade 7. Developed by Lisa Rogers, Laura Bross, Ayesatta Conteh, Marissa Griese, Teresa Oud, and Catherine Shawana, each passage focuses on a topic associated with a curriculum expectation across content areas.
Content was carefully considered to ensure that it shares perspectives that have been underrepresented, it sparks students to think critically, and it reflects some of the history, values and experiences of diverse individuals who live, or have lived, in the place we now call Canada.
The passages are purposefully written to flexibly support a variety of different instructional routines (Quick Fluency Routine, repeated reading, partner reading/paragraph shrinking). Each passage has a teacher summary page with sections that support multisyllabic decoding, vocabulary, morphology, and syntax instruction.
Curriculum Connection
A1. Transferable Skills
A3. Applications and Contributions
B2. Language Foundations for Reading and Writing
This resource supports fluency instruction (B2), but also draws on many other elements of the curriculum, including expectations in Strand A, and other content curricula. Curriculum connections are discussed within the resource.
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Thank you for your feedback. We are dispirited that we missed these errors, but are able to make needed corrections quickly.
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I did not look at all resources this closely, but I notices that the syntax lesson on page 45 is not correct. That would be a colon. Also, the morphology on page 60 (protect) should be pro (in front of) and tect (from tegere, meaning to cover), so protect is to cover before…. I am not sure yet if there are other issues.
Also, page 48. Geographic is geo (earth) and graph (to write, draw or record).