7th Grade ELA (New York Next Generation)

Reading (Literary and Informational)

• 7R1 (RI&RL) Cite evidence to analyze what a text says directly and implies, and draw sensible inferences.
• 7R2 (RI&RL) Find a theme or central idea, analyze how it develops over the text and summarize it.
• 7R3 (RL) Analyze how parts of a plot relate, affect each other and add to meaning in a literary text.
• 7R3 (RI) Analyze how people, events and ideas are introduced, related and developed in an informational text.
• 7R4 (RI&RL) Work out literal, figurative and connotative meanings and analyze how word choice shapes tone and mood.
• 7R5 (RL) Analyze how structure, including features of the genre, shapes themes and central ideas in literature.
• 7R5 (RI) Analyze how an informational text is organized and what each section adds to the whole.
• 7R6 (RL) Analyze how an author builds and contrasts the viewpoints of characters or narrators.
• 7R6 (RI) Analyze how an author sets their own position apart from other people's.
• 7R7 (RI&RL) Compare a written text with an audio, film, stage or digital version and analyze each format's techniques.
• 7R8 (RI&RL) Trace and evaluate arguments, judging whether reasoning is valid and evidence relevant and enough, and spotting irrelevant evidence.
• 7R9 (RI&RL) Judge text quality with set criteria and link texts to ideas, cultures, eras and their own experience.

Writing

• 7W1 Write arguments that back claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
• 7W1a State a precise claim, set it apart from counterclaims and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
• 7W1b Back claims with logical reasoning and relevant evidence from credible sources, showing understanding of the topic.
• 7W1c Argue with precise language and subject vocabulary.
• 7W1d Use suitable linking words to hold the argument together and show how ideas relate.
• 7W1e End with a statement explaining why the argument matters.
• 7W1f Keep a style and tone that suit the task.
• 7W2 Write informative texts that examine a topic through chosen, organized and analyzed content.
• 7W2a Introduce the topic clearly with a preview and organize by definition, classification, comparison or cause and effect.
• 7W2b Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, details and quotations, adding graphics or media when useful.
• 7W2c Explain the topic with precise language and subject vocabulary.
• 7W2d Use suitable linking words to hold the text together and show how ideas relate.
• 7W2e End with a statement explaining why the information matters.
• 7W2f Set and keep a style that suits the task.
• 7W3 Write narratives with strong technique, descriptive detail and clear order.
• 7W3a Draw the reader in by setting a point of view and introducing a narrator or characters.
• 7W3b Use dialogue, description and other techniques to develop experiences, events and characters.
• 7W3c Use varied linking words to show order and changes of time frame or place.
• 7W3d Use exact words, description and sensory language to capture action and convey events.
• 7W3e Finish with an ending that grows out of the events, or their resolution, and reflects on it.
• 7W4 Respond creatively to a text, author, theme or personal experience, for example with a poem, story, play or artwork.
• 7W5 Use evidence from literature or informational texts as support for analysis, reflection and research, applying the grade 7 Reading standards.
• 7W6 Research questions, including their own, using several sources, refocusing and raising related questions.
• 7W7 Gather information from several sources, judge credibility and accuracy, cite properly and avoid plagiarism.

Speaking and Listening

• 7SL1 Take part well in group discussions with varied partners, stating ideas clearly and building on others' ideas.
• 7SL1a Come ready, having read or researched the material, and use evidence to probe and reflect on ideas.
• 7SL1b Follow discussion norms, track progress on goals and deadlines and define roles as needed.
• 7SL1c Ask questions that draw out more detail and reply with relevant points that keep the talk on topic.
• 7SL1d Recognize new information from others and change their views when justified.
• 7SL2 Analyze central ideas and details in visual, numerical and spoken formats and explain how they clarify the topic.
• 7SL3 Set out a speaker's argument and claims and judge the reasoning and whether the evidence is relevant and enough.
• 7SL4 Present claims and findings in a focused, connected way with relevant facts, details and examples and clear delivery.
• 7SL5 Add digital media or visuals to clarify claims and findings and stress key points.
• 7SL6 Adapt speech to different settings and tasks, using formal English when called for.

Language

• 7L3 Apply what they know about how English works whenever they write, speak, read or listen.
• 7L3a Choose precise, concise wording and cut wordiness and repetition.
• 7L4 Use a range of strategies flexibly to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
• 7L4a Use context, such as the sentence's meaning or a word's position, as a clue to meaning.
• 7L4b Use common Greek or Latin roots and affixes suited to grade 7 as hints to meaning.
• 7L4c Use general and specialist reference tools, print or digital, to check pronunciation, meaning or part of speech.
• 7L4d Check a first guess at a word's meaning in context or in a dictionary.
• 7L5 Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships and shades of meaning.
• 7L5a Interpret figurative language, including allusions, in context.
• 7L5b Use synonyms, antonyms and analogies to understand words better.
• 7L5c Tell apart the associations (connotations) of words with similar dictionary meanings.
• 7L6 Learn and use correctly general academic and subject words and phrases.