Lightning Lit — Grade 7 Student Workbook

Second Edition

Please see the Lightning Lit Student’s Guide in Related Items below to find a complete description of this program. The Workbook gives students the chance to practice the skills and concepts learned in the lessons, along with composition skills (writing from note cards, rewriting in your own words, etc.), thinking skills (e.g., differentiating fact from opinion, identifying bias), and grammar review (e.g., capitalization, pronouns and antecedents). There are also optional puzzles and extra “Challenge” workbook pages.

Students read in the following order:

• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling from Stories & Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Various poems from Stories & Poems . . .
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
• “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” a short story by Stephen Crane from Stories & Poems . . .
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• Various poems from Stories & Poems . . .
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot