7th Grade ELA (Oklahoma Academic Standards)

Standard 1: Listening and Speaking

• 7.1.L.1 Listens actively within agreed rules, noticing spoken and body-language signals.
• 7.1.L.2 Interprets spoken and nonverbal messages and asks about the speaker's purpose.
• 7.1.S.1 Works respectfully in diverse groups, compromising and valuing members' contributions.
• 7.1.S.2 Discusses reading and writing clearly, building on the ideas of others.
• 7.1.S.3 Presents formally or informally, backing main ideas with evidence.

Standard 2: Reading and Writing Foundations and Process

• 7.2.R.1 Summarizes main ideas and key details within and across texts.
• 7.2.R.2 Examines details in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to tell genres apart.
• 7.2.R.3 Restates short passages in own words to show understanding.
• 7.2.W.1 Prewrites by developing and planning ideas, returning to this step as needed.
• 7.2.W.2 Organizes and develops ideas into a first draft, returning to this step as needed.
• 7.2.W.3 Revises drafts for purpose, audience, organization, and a consistent point of view.
• 7.2.W.4 Edits for grammar, usage, and mechanics using a range of resources.
• 7.2.W.5 Publishes final drafts for real audiences, online or through contests.

Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

• 7.3.R.1 Reads works on the same topic from different perspectives and compares the authors' methods.
• 7.3.R.2 Judges how perspective shapes literary and informational texts.
• 7.3.R.3 Analyzes how setting, plot, characters, and conflict support interpretations.
• 7.3.R.4 Analyzes figurative language, sound devices, and verbal irony for meaning.
• 7.3.R.5 Identifies the elements and devices that shape a text's theme and mood.
• 7.3.R.6 Tells factual claims apart from opinions.
• 7.3.R.7 Examines how text structures such as cause and effect support an author's purpose.
• 7.3.R.8 Analyzes ideas across texts, citing evidence for inferences.
• 7.3.W.1 Writes stories with complex characters, deliberate sequencing, and sensory details.
• 7.3.W.2 Writes informational pieces that develop a topic objectively with organized evidence.
• 7.3.W.3 Writes essays with precise claims and credible evidence in a logical order.

Standard 4: Vocabulary

• 7.4.R.1 Analyzes how synonyms, antonyms, and analogies relate.
• 7.4.R.2 Uses context, connotation, and denotation to work out word meanings.
• 7.4.R.3 Uses affixes, Greek roots, and stems to define complex words.
• 7.4.R.4 Uses dictionaries, glossaries, or thesauruses for word meanings and pronunciation.
• 7.4.W.1 Uses precise grade-level vocabulary to express ideas clearly in writing.
• 7.4.W.2 Chooses words in writing to create a particular effect for the purpose.

Standard 5: Language

• 7.5.R.1 Identifies the four sentence types (simple through compound-complex) and explains their effects.
• 7.5.R.2 Shows how gerunds, demonstrative pronouns, and other parts of speech affect meaning.
• 7.5.W.1 Writes all four sentence types to make writing clearer and more varied.
• 7.5.W.2 Uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns for clarity and variety.
• 7.5.W.3 Fixes run-ons, subject-verb agreement errors, tense shifts, and vague pronouns.
• 7.5.W.4 Uses capital letters correctly.
• 7.5.W.5 Uses end punctuation correctly.
• 7.5.W.6 Uses apostrophes correctly.
• 7.5.W.7 Uses commas between items (words or phrases) in a series.
• 7.5.W.8 Uses a colon to introduce quoted source material.
• 7.5.W.9 Uses quotation marks for dialogue, quotations, and titles.
• 7.5.W.10 Uses underlining or italics for titles, a character's thoughts, and foreign words.
• 7.5.W.11 Uses semicolons in compound and compound-complex sentences.

Standard 6: Research

• 7.6.R.1 Uses research questions to find and understand claims and evidence.
• 7.6.R.2 Gathers and organizes information from primary and secondary sources ethically.
• 7.6.R.3 Judges information for relevance, reliability, and validity.
• 7.6.W.1 Writes and refines a workable research question.
• 7.6.W.2 Writes a clear, concise thesis statement.
• 7.6.W.3 Quotes and summarizes sources with consistent citations to avoid plagiarism.
• 7.6.W.4 Produces research papers or projects over several days or a week.

Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies

• 7.7.R Compares how well different media techniques communicate from several points of view.
• 7.7.W Creates multimodal content that communicates ideas clearly to an audience.

Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

• 7.8.R Reads self-chosen texts and genres on their own that match their interests.
• 7.8.W Writes on their own for different lengths of time, combining modes and genres.