Grade 7-9 - English Language Arts

Discover and Explore

Clarify and Extend

Use Strategies and Clues

Respond to Texts

Understand Form, Elements and Techniques

Create Original Text

Plan and Focus

Select and Process

Organize, Record and Inform

Share and Review

Enhance and Improve

Attend to Conventions

Present and Share

Respect Others and Strengthen Community

Work Within a Group

Express ideas and develop understanding, experiment with language and forms, express preferences, set goals. 

Consider the ideas of others, combine ideas and extend understanding.

Use prior knowledge, comprehension strategies, textual cues phonics and structural analysis, and references. 

Experience various texts, construct meaning from texts, and appreciate the artistry of texts. 

Understand forms, genres, techniques and elements, and experiment with language. 

Generate ideas, elaborate on the expression of ideas and structure texts. 

Focus attention, determine information needs and plan to gather information. 

Use a variety of sources, access information and evaluate sources. 

Organize information, record information and evaluate information. 

Share ideas and information and review research process. 

Appraise own and other’s work, revise and edit, enhance legibility, expand knowledge of language and enhance artistry. 

Attend to grammar and usage, spelling, capitalization and punctuation. 

Present information, enhance presentation, use effective oral and visual communication and demonstrate attentive listening and viewing. 

Appreciate diversity, relate texts to culture, celebrate accomplishments and events and use language to show respect.

Cooperate with others, work in groups and evaluate group process.