• R.WS.07.01 Use word structure, sentence structure, and prediction to aid in decoding and understanding the meanings of words encountered in context.
• R.WS.07.02 Use structural, syntactic, and semantic analysis to recognize unfamiliar words in context (e.g., idioms, analogies, metaphors, similes, knowledge of roots and affixes, major word chunks/rimes, syllabication).
• R.WS.07.03 Recognize frequently encountered words automatically (“automatically” should be defined in the glossary).
• R.WS.07.04 Know the meaning of frequently encountered words in written and oral contexts (research to support specific words).
• R.WS.07.05 Apply strategies to construct meaning and identify unknown words.
• R.WS.07.06 Read fluently seventh grade level texts (increasingly demanding texts read with fluency as the year proceeds).
• R.WS.07.07 Use strategies and authentic content-related resources to determine the meaning of words and phrases in context (e.g., literary terms, cross-cultural words and phrases, mathematical expressions, scientific procedures).

• R.NT.07.01 Identify and discuss how the tensions among characters, communities, themes, and issues in classic and contemporary literature recognized for quality and literary merit are related to their own experiences.
• R.NT.07.02 Analyze elements and style of narrative genres (e.g., mystery, poetry, memoir, drama, myths, legends).
• R.NT.07.03 Analyze the role of antagonists, protagonists, internal and external conflicts, and abstract themes.
• R.NT.07.04 Analyze author’s craft (e.g., theme, antagonists, protagonists, over and understatement, exaggeration).

• R.IT.07.01 Analyze elements and style of informational genre (e.g., persuasive essay, research report, brochure, personal correspondence, autobiography/biography).
• R.IT.07.02 Analyze organizational patterns (e.g., compare/contrast, cause and effect, sequence).
• R.IT.07.03 Explain how authors use writer’s craft and text features to enhance the understanding of central, key, and supporting ideas (e.g., metaphors, similes, captions, diagrams, appendices).

• R.CM.07.01 Connect personal knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world to themes and perspectives in the text.
• R.CM.07.02 Read, retell, and summarize grade level appropriate narrative and informational texts.
• R.CM.07.03 State global themes, universal truths, and principles within and across texts to create a deeper understanding.
• R.CM.07.04 Apply significant knowledge from what has been read in grade level appropriate science and social studies texts.

• R.MT.07.01 Independently self-monitor comprehension when reading or listening to text by automatically using and discussing the strategies used by mature readers to increase comprehension and engage in interpretative discussions (e.g., predicting, constructing mental images representing ideas in text questioning, rereading or listening again if uncertain about meaning, inferring, summarizing).
• R.MT.07.02 Plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate skills, strategies, and processes for their own reading comprehension by applying appropriate metacognitive skills (e.g., SQP3R, pattern guides).

• R.CS.07.01 Analyze the appropriateness of shared, individual, and expert standards based on purpose, context, and audience in order to assess their own work and work of others.

Reading Attitude

Students will…

• R.AT.07.01 Be enthusiastic about reading and do substantial reading on their own.

W R I T I N G Writing Genres

Students will…

• W.GN.07.01 Write a cohesive narrative piece that includes appropriate conventions to the genre (e.g., memoir, drama, legend, mystery, poetry, myth) and employ literary and plot devices (e.g., internal and/or external conflicts, antagonists/protagonists, personification).
• W.GN.07.02 Write a research report (e.g., I-search, website, traditional) for an authentic audience that includes appropriate organizational patterns (e.g., problem statement and solution, position statement and supporting evidence, compare and contrast), descriptive language, and text features.
• W.GN.07.03 Formulate research questions using multiple resources, perspectives, and arguments/counter arguments to develop a thesis statement that culminates in a presented, final project.

• W.PR.07.01 Set a purpose, consider audience, and replicate authors’ styles and patterns when writing narrative or informational text.
• W.PR.07.02 Apply a variety of pre-writing strategies for narrative (e.g., story maps that are designed to depict roles of antagonist and protagonist, internal and external conflict) and informational text (e.g., position statement and supporting evidence, problem statement and solution,, compare/contrast).
• W.PR.07.03 Revise their writing to reflect different perspectives for multiple purposes.
• W.PR.07.04 Select and use titles, leads, and endings to achieve a specific purpose for specific audiences. (revise writing to ensure that content, structure, elements of style and voice, literary devices, and textual features are consistent).
• W.PR.07.05 Edit their writing using proofreaders’ checklists both individually and in peer editing groups.

• W.PS.07.01 Exhibit individual style to enhance the written message (e.g., in narrative text: personification, humor, element of surprise; in informational text: emotional appeal, strong opinion, credible support).

• W.GR.07.01 Use style conventions (e.g., MLA) and a variety of grammatical structures in their writing including participial phrases, adverbial subordinate clauses, superlative adjectives and adverbs, present/past/future, continuous verb tenses, parentheses, singular and plural possessive forms, and indefinite pronouns.

• W.SP.07.01 Correctly spell the derivatives of bases and affixes in the context of their own writing.

• W.HW.07.01 Be legible in their compositions.

• W.AT.07.01 Be enthusiastic about writing.

• S.CN.07.01 Use specialized language related to a topic and select words carefully to achieve precise meaning when presenting.
• S.CN.07.02 Use slang, dialect, and colloquial language suitably to create interest and drama when presenting.
• S.CN.07.03 Present their work in standard American English if it is their first language (students whose second language is English will present their work in their developing version of standard American English).

• S.DS.07.01 Engage in interactive, extended discourse to socially construct meaning (e.g., book clubs, literature circles. partnerships, or other conversation protocols).
• S.DS.07.02 Discuss multiple text types in order to anticipate and answer questions, offer opinions and solutions, and to identify personally with a universal theme.
• S.DS.07.03 Discuss their written narratives with a variety of literary and plot devices (e.g., clearly described setting, sequenced events, complex major and minor characters, dialogue, suspense, specific narrative actions such as gestures, movements, and expressions).
• S.DS.07.04 Plan and deliver a focused, coherent informational presentation that incorporates persuasive, non-verbal techniques (e.g., modulation of voice, inflection, tempo, enunciation, eye contact), is organized by a specific text pattern (e.g., theory and evidence, persuasion, sequence), and provides supporting details, explanations, and descriptions supportive of the focus of the presentation and the backgrounds/interests of the audience.

• L.CN.07.01 Distinguish facts from opinions and question their validity during speeches and presentations delivered by peers.
• L.CN.07.02 Demonstrate the appropriate social skills of audience behavior (e.g., eye contact, quiet and still, attentive, supportive) during speeches and presentations.

• L.RP.07.01 Identify, state, and react to a speaker’s point of view and bias.
• L.RP.07.02 Respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
• L.RP.07.03 Identify a speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
• L.RP.07.04 Ask probing questions of speakers, focusing on claims and conclusions presented.
• L.RP.07.05 Respond to multiple texts when listened to or viewed by speaking, illustrating, and/or writing in order to anticipate and answer questions, to determine personal and universal themes, and to offer opinions or solutions.
• L.RP.07.06 Evaluate the credibility of a speaker by determining whether the speaker’s point of view is biased or not.
• L.RP.07.07 Identify persuasive and propaganda techniques and analyze the effect on the view of images, text, and sound in the electronic media (e.g., television, movies), and they will determine if the techniques used achieved their intended effects.