Moffat County School District RE-1

Language Arts

Seventh Grade

 

Students will:

 

Comprehension

 

1.    use a full range of strategies to comprehend technical writing, newspapers, magazines, poetry, short stories, plays, and novels, including texts derived from different economic, ethnic, and social backgrounds.

 

2.    summarize texts accurately.*

 

3.    determine the main idea and find supporting details.*

 

4.    make reasonable inferences and predictions that are implied but not directly stated.*

 

5.    read with a purpose, such as reading to understand, interpret, enjoy, and solve problems.

 

6.    monitor comprehension and adapt reading rate to support understanding.

 

7.    apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence, language structure (roots, prefixes, suffixes), and context to recognize words.*

 

8.    identify sequential order including technical publications.*

 

9.    locate meanings, pronunciations, and parts of speech of unfamiliar words using dictionaries and other sources.*

 

Written and Oral

 

1.    write in a variety of genres, such as personal narratives, expository essays, fiction, poetry, and letters for specific purposes such as to entertain, to persuade, and to inform.*

 

2.    develop content in speaking and writing with significant details, examples, and/or reasons.*

 

3.    organize ideas in speaking and writing using a thesis, so that there is an inviting introduction, logical arrangement of ideas, and a satisfying conclusion.*

 

4.    use transitions in speaking and writing to link ideas.*

 

*These objectives will be tested on CSAP

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5.    plan, draft, revise, and proofread to produce a legible final copy.*

 

6.    use a variety of sentence structures in speaking and writing.*

 

7.    write and speak with a voice appropriate to purpose and audience.*

 

8.    choose a range of words in speaking and writing that is precise and vivid.*

 

Conventions

 

1.    identify and use parts of speech.*

 

2.    use standard English in writing and speaking including subject/verb agreement, verb tense, pronoun referents, modifiers, homonyms, and homophones.*

 

3.    write and speak in complete sentences.*

 

4.    use capitals correctly, such as in titles, direct quotations, and proper nouns.*

 

5.    punctuate correctly, including apostrophes, comma usage, quotation marks, semi-colons, and end marks.*

 

6.    use paragraphs correctly so that each paragraph is differentiated by indenting or blocking and includes one major focused idea including a topic sentence.*

 

7.    expand spelling skills to include more complex words.

 

8.    use conventional spelling in published work.*

 

9.    use dictionaries and spell checkers to monitor spelling accuracy.

 

Strategies for Thinking

 

1.    recognize an author's or speaker's point of view and purpose.*

 

2.    use reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing to solve problems and answer questions.*

 

3.    distinguish between fact and opinion.*

 

4.    make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze when reading, listening, and viewing.*

 

 

 

 

*These objectives will be tested on CSAP

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Research

 

1.    use organizational features of printed text, such as prefaces, afterwards, appendices, table of contents, indices, bold face print, and bibliographies.*

 

2.    use library and interlibrary catalog databases and organizational features of electronic information.*

 

3.    locate and select relevant information from electronic and non-electronic sources.*

 

4.    use available media resources, including technology, to research and produce a document with an accurate bibliography.*

 

5.    locate others’ ideas or information in a bibliography, works cited page, or text features (quotations, italics, footnotes).*

 

Literature

 

1.    compare and contrast texts with similar characters, plots, and/or themes.*

 

2.    read, respond to, and discuss a variety of literature.*

 

3.    read, respond to, and discuss literature that represents points of view from places, people, and events that are familiar and unfamiliar.*

 

4.    use literature terminology accurately, including setting, character, conflict, plot, resolution, dialect, point of view, and theme.*

 

5.    apply knowledge of literary techniques, including foreshadowing, metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, flashback, rhythm, and rhyme to understand text.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*These objectives will be tested on CSAP

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