Reading Standards for Literature
** RL.7.IA.1- Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections, determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for comprehension.
More Information ** RL.7.IA.2- Read on-level text, both silently and orally, at an appropriate rate with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. More Information ** RL.7.1- Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. More Information ** RL.7.2- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. More Information ** RL7.3- Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). More Information ** RL.7.4- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. More Information ** RL.7.5- Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning. More Information ** RL.7.6- Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. More Information ** RL.7.7- Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film). More Information ** RL.7.8- (Not applicable to literature) More Information ** RL.7.9- Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. More Information ** RL.7.10- By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. More Information Writing Standards
** W.7.1- Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. More Information
** W.7.2- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. More Information ** W.7.3- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well–structured event sequences. More Information ** W.7.4- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade–specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) More Information ** W.7.5- With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 7.) More Information ** W.7.6- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources. More Information ** W.7.7- Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation. More Information ** W.7.8- Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. More Information ** W.7.9- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. More Information ** W.7.10- Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline–specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. More Information |
Reading Standards for Informational Texts
** RI.7.IA.1- Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections, determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for comprehension. More Information
** RI.7.IA.2- Read on-level text, both silently and orally, at an appropriate rate with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. More Information ** RI.7.1- Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. More Information ** RI.7.2- Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. More Information ** RI.7.3- Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events). More Information ** RI.7.4- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. More Information ** RI.7.5- Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas. More Information ** RI.7.6- Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. More Information ** RI.7.7- Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words). More Information ** RI.7.8- Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims. More Information ** RI.7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts. More Information ** RI.7.10-By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. More Information Speaking and Listening Standards
** SL.7.1- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one–on–one, in groups, and teacher–led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. More Information
** SL.7.2- Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study. More Information ** SL.7.3- Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. More Information ** SL.7.IA.6- Participate in public performances. More Information ** SL.7.4- Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. More Information ** SL.7.5- Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points. More Information ** SL.7.6- Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 7 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.) More Information Language Standards
** L.7.1- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
** L.7.2- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L.7.3Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Beginning in grade 3, skills and understandings that are particularly likely to require continued attention in higher grades as they are applied to increasingly sophisticated writing and speaking are marked with an asterisk (*). More Information L.7.4Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple–meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. More Information Language Standards 6–12L.7.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. More Information Language Standards 6–12L.7.6Acquire and use accurately grade–appropriate general academic and domain–specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. More Information |