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OK.7.1.Speaking and Listening - Students will speak and listen effectively in a variety of situations including, but not limited to, responses to reading and writing.
Speaking and Listening - Students will speak and listen effectively in a variety of situations including, but not limited to, responses to reading and writing.
7.1.R. Reading - Students will develop and apply effective communication skills through speaking and active listening.7.1.R.1. Students will actively listen and speak clearly using appropriate discussion rules with awareness and control of verbal and nonverbal cues.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Speaking
7.1.R.3. Students will engage in collaborative discussions about appropriate topics and texts, expressing their own ideas clearly while building on the ideas of others in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings.
7.1.W. Writing - Students will develop and apply effective communication skills through speaking and active listening to create individual and group projects and presentations.7.1.W.1. Students will give formal and informal presentations in a group or individually, providing evidence to support a main idea.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Speaking
OK.7.2RF.Reading Foundations - Students will develop foundational skills for future reading success by working with sounds, letters, and text.
Reading Foundations - Students will develop foundational skills for future reading success by working with sounds, letters, and text.
7.2.F. Fluency - Students will recognize high-frequency words and read grade-level text smoothly and accurately, with expression that connotes comprehension.7.2.F.1. Students will continue to review and apply earlier grade level expectations for this standard. If these fluency skills are not mastered, students will address skills from previous grades.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Speaking
OK.7.2RW.Reading and Writing Process - Students will use a variety of recursive reading and writing processes.
Reading and Writing Process - Students will use a variety of recursive reading and writing processes.
7.2.R. Reading - Students will read and comprehend increasingly complex literary and informational texts.7.2.R.1. Students will create an objective summary, including main idea and supporting details, while maintaining meaning and a logical sequence of events.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sequencing Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Summarize
7.2.R.2. Students will analyze details in literary and nonfiction/informational texts to distinguish genres.
7.2.R.3. Students will paraphrase main ideas with supporting details in a text.
7.2.W. Writing - Students will develop and strengthen writing by engaging in a recursive process that includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.7.2.W.1. Students will apply components of a recursive writing process for multiple purposes to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing.
7.2.W.3. Students will develop drafts by choosing an organizational structure (e.g., description, compare/contrast, sequential, problem/solution, cause/effect, etc.) and building on ideas in multi-paragraph essays.
7.2.W.4. Students will edit and revise multiple drafts for organization, transitions to improve coherence and meaning, using a consistent point of view.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sequencing
7.2.W.5. Students will use resources to find correct spellings of words (e.g., word wall, vocabulary notebook, print and electronic dictionaries, and spell-check).
OK.7.3.Critical Reading and Writing - Students will apply critical thinking skills to reading and writing.
Critical Reading and Writing - Students will apply critical thinking skills to reading and writing.
7.3.R. Reading - Students will comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and respond to a variety of complex texts of all literary and informational genres from a variety of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives.7.3.R.1. Students will compare and contrast stated or implied purposes of authors writing on the same topic in grade-level literary and/or informational texts.
7.3.R.3. Students will analyze how key literary elements contribute to the meaning of the literary work:7.3.R.3.2. PlotQuiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea
7.3.R.3.3. Characters (i.e., protagonist, antagonist)
7.3.R.3.4. Characterization
7.3.R.3.6. Conflict (i.e., internal and external)
7.3.R.4. Students will evaluate literary devices to support interpretations of literary texts:7.3.R.4.3. Personification
7.3.R.5. Students will distinguish factual claims from opinions.
7.3.R.6. Students will analyze the structures of texts (e.g., compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, claims/evidence) and content by making inferences about texts and use textual evidence to draw simple logical conclusions.
7.3.R.7. Students will make connections (e.g., thematic links) between and across multiple texts and provide textual evidence to support their inferences.
7.3.W. Writing - Students will write for varied purposes and audiences in all modes, using fully developed ideas, strong organization, well-chosen words, fluent sentences, and appropriate voice. ARGUMENT - Grade Level Focus7.3.W.3. Students will introduce a claim and organize reasons and evidence, using credible sources.
7.3.W.4. Students will show relationships among the claim, reasons, and evidence.
OK.7.4.Vocabulary - Students will expand their working vocabularies to effectively communicate and understand texts.
Vocabulary - Students will expand their working vocabularies to effectively communicate and understand texts.
7.4.R. Reading - Students will expand academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabularies through reading, word study, and class discussion.7.4.R.1. Students will increase knowledge of academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabulary to infer meaning of grade-level text.
7.4.R.2. Students will use word parts (e.g., affixes, Greek and Latin roots, stems) to define and determine the meaning of increasingly complex words.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Root Words
7.4.R.3. Students will use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vocabulary Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vocabulary
7.4.R.4. Students will infer the relationships among words with multiple meanings and recognize the connotation and denotation of words.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vocabulary
7.4.R.5. Students will use a dictionary, glossary, or a thesaurus (print and/or electronic) to determine or clarify the meanings, syllabication, pronunciation, synonyms, and parts of speech of words.
OK.7.5.Language - Students will apply knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to reading and writing.
Language - Students will apply knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to reading and writing.
7.5.R. Reading - Students will apply knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to analyze and evaluate a variety of texts.7.5.R.1. Students will recognize the correct use of prepositional phrases and dependent clauses.
7.5.R.2. Students will recognize simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
7.5.R.3. Students will recognize the subject and verb agreement.
7.5.R.4. Students will recognize and correct misplaced and dangling modifiers.
7.5.W. Writing - Students will demonstrate command of Standard English grammar, mechanics, and usage through writing and other modes of communication.7.5.W.1. Students will write using correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semi-colons.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Punctuation
7.5.W.2. Students will compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas.
7.5.W.3. Students will use prepositional phrases and clauses (e.g., dependent and independent) in writing.
OK.7.6.Research - Students will engage in inquiry to acquire, refine, and share knowledge.
Research - Students will engage in inquiry to acquire, refine, and share knowledge.
7.6.R. Reading - Students will comprehend, evaluate, and synthesize resources to acquire and refine knowledge.7.6.R.3. Students will determine the relevance, reliability, and validity of the information gathered.
OK.7.7.Multimodal Literacies - Students will acquire, refine, and share knowledge through a variety of written, oral, visual, digital, non-verbal, and interactive texts.
Multimodal Literacies - Students will acquire, refine, and share knowledge through a variety of written, oral, visual, digital, non-verbal, and interactive texts.
7.7.R. Reading - Students will evaluate written, oral, visual, and digital texts in order to draw conclusions and analyze arguments.7.7.R.1. Students will compare and contrast the effectiveness of techniques used in a variety of written, oral, visual, digital, non-verbal, and interactive texts to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions to create new understandings.
OK.7.8.Independent Reading and Writing - Students will read and write for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, academic and personal.
Independent Reading and Writing - Students will read and write for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, academic and personal.
7.8.W. Writing - Students will write independently for extended periods of time. Students will vary their modes of expression to suit audience and task.7.8.W.1. Students will write independently over extended periods of time (e.g., time for research, reflection, and revision) and for shorter timeframes (e.g., a single sitting or a day or two), vary their modes of expression to suit audience and task, and discover