7th Grade ELA (Oregon Common Core)

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• ELA.7.RF.1 Read grade-level text fluently, with accuracy, good pace and expression, to support understanding.
  • a. Read with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a suitable pace and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or fix word reading, rereading when needed.

Reading Literature (RL)

• ELA.7.RL.1 Analyze what a literary text says directly and implies, citing several pieces of evidence.
• ELA.7.RL.2 Identify a theme or central idea, trace how it develops and write a summary based on evidence.
• ELA.7.RL.3 Analyze how story elements interact and influence each other to make meaning.
• ELA.7.RL.4 Read and define words and phrases, including figurative, connotative and technical senses, and analyze the effect of repeated sounds.
• ELA.7.RL.5 Analyze how the form or structure of a play, poem or prose text adds to its meaning.
• ELA.7.RL.6 Analyze how the author builds up different characters' or narrators' viewpoints and sets them against each other.
• ELA.7.RL.7 Compare a written work with its audio, film, stage or multimedia version, analyzing the techniques of each medium.
• ELA.7.RL.9 Set a fictional picture of a period, place or character beside a historical account to see how fiction uses or changes history.
• ELA.7.RL.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly, including for long words, to analyze complex literature.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• ELA.7.RI.1 Analyze what an informational text says directly and implies, with several citations, and judge how well it is supported.
• ELA.7.RI.2 Identify two or more central ideas, trace how they develop and write a summary based on evidence.
• ELA.7.RI.3 Analyze how people, events and ideas interact in an informational text.
• ELA.7.RI.4 Read and define words and phrases, including subject-specific technical senses, and analyze how word choice affects meaning and tone.
• ELA.7.RI.5 Analyze how an author's organization and major sections develop ideas and guide understanding.
• ELA.7.RI.6 Identify an author's background, viewpoint or purpose and the techniques that set the author's position apart from others.
• ELA.7.RI.7 Compare a text with an audio, video or multimedia version, analyzing how each presents the subject.
• ELA.7.RI.8 Trace and evaluate an argument, judging how sound the reasoning is and whether the evidence is relevant and enough.
• ELA.7.RI.9 Analyze how two or more authors on one topic present key information differently through evidence and interpretation.
• ELA.7.RI.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly, including for long words, to analyze complex informational texts.

Writing (W)

• ELA.7.W.1 Write arguments with clear claims, reasons and relevant evidence.
  • a. Introduce claims, deal with and rebut opposing claims and organize reasons and evidence logically.
  • b. Support claims with logical reasoning and accurate, credible sources.
  • c. Use linking words to make clear how claims, reasons and evidence relate.
  • d. Keep a style that suits the content, purpose and audience.
  • e. Write a conclusion that follows from and supports the argument.
• ELA.7.W.2 Write informative or explanatory texts that examine a topic through chosen, organized and analyzed content.
  • a. Introduce the topic with a preview, organize with strategies such as definition or comparison and add visuals when useful.
  • b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, quotations or examples.
  • c. Use linking words to hold the text together and make relationships between ideas clear.
  • d. Use precise language and subject vocabulary.
  • e. Keep a style that suits the content, purpose and audience.
  • f. Write a conclusion that follows from the information given.
• ELA.7.W.3 Write narratives of real or imagined experiences with techniques, descriptive details and well-ordered events.
  • a. Set the context, point of view and narrator or characters, and organize events logically.
  • b. Bring experiences, events or characters to life with dialogue, pacing and description.
  • c. Use a range of linking words to show order and shifts in time or setting.
  • d. Use precise words, descriptive details and sensory language.
  • e. Write an ending that reflects on the events.
• ELA.7.W.4 Produce clear, connected writing whose development, organization and style suit the task, purpose and audience.
• ELA.7.W.5 With some support, develop and improve writing by planning, drafting, revising, editing and rewriting with purpose and audience in mind.
• ELA.7.W.6 Use digital tools and handwriting to produce, publish and work with others, citing sources consistently.
• ELA.7.W.7 Do short research projects on a question, including their own, using several sources and raising follow-up questions.
• ELA.7.W.8 Gather information from several sources, judge credibility, quote or paraphrase ethically and cite in a standard format.
• ELA.7.W.9 Draw and cite evidence from literature or informational texts as support for analysis, reflection and research.
• ELA.7.W.10 Write regularly over long and short periods for a range of subject tasks, purposes and audiences.

Language (L)

• ELA.7.L.1 Use standard English grammar and usage correctly in writing and speech.
  • a. Write sentences with clauses and phrases in the right place.
  • b. Choose among the four sentence types (simple through compound-complex) to show how ideas relate.
  • c. Place modifiers correctly and fix misplaced and dangling modifiers.
• ELA.7.L.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Use a comma between coordinate adjectives.
  • b. Spell correctly.
• ELA.7.L.3 Apply what they know about how English works whenever they write, speak, read or listen.
  • a. Choose precise, concise wording and cut wordiness and repetition.
• ELA.7.L.4 Use strategies flexibly to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
  • a. Use context as a clue to meaning.
  • b. Use Greek and Latin roots and affixes suited to grade 7 as hints.
  • c. Use dictionaries, glossaries and thesauruses for pronunciation, meaning or part of speech.
  • d. Check a first guess at a word's meaning.
• ELA.7.L.5 Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Interpret figurative language, including irony, in context.
  • b. Use word relationships to understand words better.
  • c. Tell apart the associations (connotations) of words with similar dictionary meanings.
• ELA.7.L.6 Learn and use correctly academic and subject words and phrases for grade 7.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• ELA.7.SL.1 Take part well in group discussions with varied partners, building on others' ideas and stating their own clearly.
  • a. Come ready and refer to evidence from the material being studied.
  • b. Follow discussion rules, track goals and deadlines and define roles as needed.
  • c. Ask questions that draw out more detail and reply with relevant ideas that keep the talk on topic.
  • d. Recognize new information and change their views when it is justified.
  • e. Judge how well the discussion worked.
• ELA.7.SL.2 Analyze main ideas and supporting details in different media and explain how they clarify a topic.
• ELA.7.SL.3 Identify a speaker's argument and claims, judging the reasoning and whether the evidence is relevant and sufficient.
• ELA.7.SL.4 Present claims or findings in a focused, connected way with relevant details, using eye contact, good volume and clear speech.
• ELA.7.SL.5 Include media and visuals that clarify claims and stress key points.
• ELA.7.SL.6 Adapt speech to different settings and tasks, using grade 7 language conventions when suitable.