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TX.110.23.English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 7, Adopted 2017
English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 7, Adopted 2017
7.1. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion. The student is expected to:
7.1.C. Present a critique of a literary work, film, or dramatic production, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, a variety of natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideSpeaking
7.1.D. Engage in meaningful discourse and provide and accept constructive feedback from others.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideSpeaking
7.10. Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected t
7.10.A. Plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests.
7.11. Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. The student is expected to:
7.11.A. Compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft.
7.11.B. Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft.
7.12. Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes. The student is expected to:
7.12.F. Synthesize information from a variety of sources.
7.12.J. Use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideSpeaking
7.2. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively. The student is expected to:
7.2.A. Use print or digital resources to determine the meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, word origin, and part of speech.
7.2.B. Use context such as contrast or cause and effect to clarify the meaning of words.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideContext Clues
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideVocabulary
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideVocabulary
7.2.C. Determine the meaning and usage of grade-level academic English words derived from Greek and Latin roots such as omni, log/logue, gen, vid/vis, phil, luc, and sens/sent.
7.5. Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to:
7.5.A. Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideThinking Skills
7.6. Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
7.6.A. Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideThinking Skills
7.7. Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse li
7.7.A. Infer multiple themes within and across texts using text evidence.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideNarrative Text
7.7.B. Analyze how the characters’ qualities influence events and resolution of the conflict.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideNarrative Text
7.8. Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporar
7.8.A. Demonstrate knowledge of literary genres such as realistic fiction, adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, humor, myths, fantasy, and science fiction.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideParts of Speech
7.8.B. Analyze the effect of rhyme scheme, meter, and graphical elements such as punctuation and capitalization in poems across a variety of poetic forms.
7.9. Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student a
7.9.A. Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideAuthor's Purpose
7.9.F. Analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood, voice, and tone.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideNarrative Text
7.9.G. Explain the purpose of rhetorical devices such as direct address and rhetorical questions and logical fallacies such as loaded language and sweeping generalizations.