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ELA.7.1.3. Clarify word meanings through the use of definition, example, restatement, or contrast.
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| ELA.7.2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) |
| Structural Features of Informational Materials |
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ELA.7.2.1. Understand and analyze the differences in structure and purpose between various categories of informational materials (e.g., textbooks, newspapers, instructional manuals, signs).
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ELA.7.2.2. Locate information by using a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents.
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ELA.7.2.3. Analyze text that uses the cause-and-effect organizational pattern.
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| Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text |
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ELA.7.2.4. Identify and trace the development of an author's argument, point of view, or perspective in text.
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ELA.7.2.5. Understand and explain the use of a simple mechanical device by following technical directions.
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| Expository Critique |
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ELA.7.2.6. Assess the adequacy, accuracy, and appropriateness of the author's evidence to support claims and assertions, noting instances of bias and stereotyping.
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| ELA.7.3.0 Literary Response and Analysis |
| Structural Features of Literature |
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ELA.7.3.1. Articulate the expressed purposes and characteristics of different forms of prose (e.g., short story, novel, novella, essay).
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| Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text |
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ELA.7.3.3. Analyze characterization as delineated through a character's thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrator's description; and the thoughts, words, and actions of other characters.
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ELA.7.3.5. Contrast points of view (e.g., first and third person, limited and omniscient, subjective and objective) in narrative text and explain how they affect the overall theme of the work.
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| Literary Criticism |
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ELA.7.3.6. Analyze a range of responses to a literary work and determine the extent to which the literary elements in the work shaped those responses.
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| Writing |
| ELA.7.1.0 Writing Strategies |
| Organization and Focus |
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ELA.7.1.1. Create an organizational structure that balances all aspects of the composition and uses effective transitions between sentences to unify important ideas.
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ELA.7.1.2. Support all statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts and statistics, and specific examples.
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ELA.7.1.3. Use strategies of notetaking, outlining, and summarizing to impose structure on composition drafts.
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| Research and Technology |
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ELA.7.1.4. Identify topics; ask and evaluate questions; and develop ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research.
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ELA.7.1.5. Give credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography by using a consistent and sanctioned format and methodology for citations.
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ELA.7.1.6. Create documents by using word-processing skills and publishing programs; develop simple databases and spreadsheets to manage information and prepare reports.
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| Evaluation and Revision |
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ELA.7.1.7. Revise writing to improve organization and word choice after checking the logic of the ideas and the precision of the vocabulary.
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| ELA.7.2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) |
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ELA.7.2.2. Write responses to literature:
a. Develop interpretations exhibiting careful reading, understanding, and insight.
b. Organize interpretations around several clear ideas, premises, or images from the literary work.
c. Justify interpretations through sustained use of examples and textual evidence.
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ELA.7.2.3. Write research reports:
a. Pose relevant and tightly drawn questions about the topic.
b. Convey clear and accurate perspectives on the subject.
c. Include evidence compiled through the formal research process (e.g., use of a card catalog, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, a computer catalog, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries).
d. Document reference sources by means of footnotes and a bibliography.
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ELA.7.2.5. Write summaries of reading materials:
a. Include the main ideas and most significant details.
b. Use the student's own words, except for quotations.
c. Reflect underlying meaning, not just the superficial details.
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| Written and Oral English Language Conventions |
| ELA.7.1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions |
| Sentence Structure |
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ELA.7.1.1. Place modifiers properly and use the active voice.
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| Grammar |
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ELA.7.1.2. Identify and use infinitives and participles and make clear references between pronouns and antecedents.
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ELA.7.1.3. Identify all parts of speech and types and structure of sentences.
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ELA.7.1.4. Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g., quotation marks, commas at end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English usage (e.g., pronoun reference).
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| Punctuation |
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ELA.7.1.5. Identify hyphens, dashes, brackets, and semicolons and use them correctly.
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| Capitalization |
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ELA.7.1.6. Use correct capitalization.
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| Spelling |
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ELA.7.1.7. Spell derivatives correctly by applying the spellings of bases and affixes.
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