7th Grade ELA (Mississippi CCR Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.7.1 Use several pieces of text evidence to support analysis of stated and inferred meaning.
• RL.7.2 Find a theme or central idea, trace how details shape it, and summarize accurately.
• RL.7.3 Analyze how story elements interact, such as setting shaping characters or plot.
• RL.7.4 Work out word meanings, including figurative ones, and how sound devices affect tone.
• RL.7.5 Analyze how a form or structure, such as a sonnet or soliloquy, adds to meaning.
• RL.7.6 Analyze how an author builds and contrasts different characters' points of view.
• RL.7.7 Compare a written story, play, or poem with a filmed, staged, or audio version and the effects of each medium.
• RL.7.8 (Not applicable to literature.)
• RL.7.9 Compare a fictional portrayal of a period with a historical account to see how fiction uses history.
• RL.7.10 Read grade 6–8 band literature well, with support at the top of the range.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.7.1 Use several pieces of text evidence to support analysis of an informational text.
• RI.7.2 Find a central idea, trace how details shape it, and summarize accurately.
• RI.7.3 Analyze how people, events, and ideas in a text influence one another.
• RI.7.4 Work out word meanings, including technical ones, and how word choice affects tone.
• RI.7.5 Analyze how a text is organized and how its major sections build the ideas.
• RI.7.6 Identify the author's view or purpose and how the author sets it apart from others' views.
• RI.7.7 Compare a text with an audio or video version and how each medium presents the subject.
• RI.7.8 Follow an argument and judge whether reasoning is sound and evidence relevant and enough.
• RI.7.9 Analyze how authors on the same topic stress different evidence or read facts differently.
• RI.7.10 Read grade 6–8 band nonfiction well, with support at the top of the range.

Writing (W)

• W.7.1 Write arguments that back claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
  • a. State the claim and lay out reasons and evidence clearly.
  • b. Support the claim with logical reasoning and accurate, credible sources.
  • c. Use linking words to tie together claims, reasons, and evidence.
  • d. Keep a formal style throughout.
  • e. End with a conclusion that supports the argument.
• W.7.2 Write informative or explanatory texts that examine a topic with well-chosen, organized content.
  • a. Introduce the topic and organize ideas, using structures such as comparison or cause and effect, plus headings or graphics.
  • b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, quotations, and examples.
  • c. Use transitions to show how ideas connect.
  • d. Use exact language and subject vocabulary.
  • e. Keep a formal style throughout.
  • f. End with a conclusion that follows from the explanation.
• W.7.3 Write real or imagined narratives with good technique, detail, and a clear sequence of events.
  • a. Set the context and point of view, introduce characters, and order events naturally.
  • b. Use dialogue, pacing, and description to develop events and characters.
  • c. Use transition words to show sequence and changes in time or place.
  • d. Use exact words and sensory details to capture the action.
  • e. End with a conclusion that reflects on the events.
• W.7.4 Write clearly and coherently, matching development and style to task, purpose, and audience.
• W.7.5 With some help, improve writing by planning and revising, checking it suits purpose and audience.
• W.7.6 Use technology to publish writing, link to and cite sources, and collaborate.
• W.7.7 Carry out short research projects from several sources and raise new focused questions.
• W.7.8 Search print and digital sources well, judge credibility and accuracy, and quote or paraphrase without plagiarism.
• W.7.9 Draw on evidence from literary or informational texts in analysis and research.
  • a. Apply grade 7 literature reading standards in writing.
  • b. Apply grade 7 informational reading standards in writing.
• W.7.10 Write regularly, over both long and short time frames, for many tasks and audiences.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.7.1 Take part well in different discussions on grade 7 topics and texts, adding to others' ideas.
  • a. Prepare for discussions and use evidence from the material to explore ideas.
  • b. Follow discussion rules, track progress on goals, and take on roles.
  • c. Ask questions that draw out detail and answer with relevant, on-topic comments.
  • d. Take in new information from others and change views when justified.
• SL.7.2 Analyze main ideas and details from different media and how they clarify a topic.
• SL.7.3 Outline a speaker's argument and judge its reasoning and evidence.
• SL.7.4 Present claims and findings in a focused way, stressing key points, with good eye contact and clear voice.
• SL.7.5 Add multimedia and visuals to presentations to clarify claims and stress key points.
• SL.7.6 Adjust speech to the context and task, using formal English when suitable.

Language (L)

• L.7.1 Use standard English grammar and usage in writing and speech.
  • a. Explain what phrases and clauses do in general and in particular sentences.
  • b. Pick simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences to show how ideas relate.
  • c. Place phrases and clauses well and fix misplaced or dangling modifiers.
• L.7.2 Use standard capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in writing.
  • a. Use commas between coordinate adjectives.
  • b. Spell words correctly.
• L.7.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
  • a. Choose precise, concise wording and cut wordiness and repetition.
• L.7.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words using a range of strategies.
  • a. Use context as a clue to word meaning.
  • b. Use Greek and Latin roots and affixes as clues.
  • c. Use print and digital reference works to check pronunciation, meaning, or part of speech.
  • d. Check a guessed meaning in context or a dictionary.
• L.7.5 Understand figurative language, word relationships, and shades of meaning.
  • a. Interpret figures of speech such as literary, biblical, and mythological allusions.
  • b. Use relationships such as synonyms, antonyms, and analogies to understand words.
  • c. Tell apart the connotations of words with similar definitions.
• L.7.6 Learn and use grade-level academic and subject-specific words and phrases.