Grade 7

Word Relationship Meaning

Craft and Structure

Key Ideas and Evidence

Communication and Collaboration

Compose and Publish

Grammar and Usage

Identify a known root as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (addition, additional).

Determine the meaning of a word when an affix is added to the root of a word. 

Determine how the story elements interact to determine themes and topics. 

Analyze how the author develops and contrast their point of view. 

Compare and contrast story elements across various mediums. 

Analyze the meaning of words in a text including figurative and connotative meaning and analyze the impact on meaning and tone. 

Identify literary elements and explain their effect on the text.  

Analyze how two authors present their point of view on the same theme, topic or event. 

Determine common themes across texts and analyze development over the texts.

Compare and contrast the impact of visual and multimedia elements that contribute to the meaning and tone of an idea.

Cite text evidence from multiple sources using in-text citations. 

Annotate a text for character traits, big ideas (topics), figurative language.

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles. 

Ask questions to seek clarification of ideas during discussions while persuasively expressing ideas.

Collaborate to receive and provide feedback. 

Implement presentation skills (eye contact, gestures, and appropriate voice) with visual cues. 

Compose argument pieces on topics or texts, supporting point of view with reasons and information. 

Produce clear and coherent paragraphs on a variety of topics in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Compose Informative texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly, including comparison/contrast writing, and persuasive writing using precise language and domain specific vocabulary to explain the topic. 

Compose an original thesis statement for the argument.

Utilize digital tools to produce and publish writing in collaboration with peers. 

Compose a variety of phrases such as prepositional, appositional and paratheatrical. 

Form and use transitive/ intransitive verbs.

Continue identification and use of main parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions). 

Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.

Accurately choose when to use an adjective or an adverb. 

Compose simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex sentences. 

Demonstrate the use of commas correctly in a variety of sentence structures.