Common Core State Standard: RL.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how a drama
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.7
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast a story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.9
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.10
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine an author
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.7
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.8
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.9
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.10
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.E
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.E
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.F
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.E
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.7
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.8
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.9
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.9.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literature (e.g.,
Common Core State Standard: W.7.9.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.10
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
Common Core State Standard: L.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.2.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.2.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Spell correctly.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.3.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.*
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary, biblical, and mythological allusions) in context.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how a drama"s or poem"s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.7
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast a story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.9
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
Common Core State Standard: RL.7.10
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine an author"s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.7
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium"s portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words).
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.8
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.9
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Common Core State Standard: RI.7.10
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.1.E
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.E
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.2.F
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.3.E
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Common Core State Standard: W.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 7 on page 53.)
Common Core State Standard: W.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.7
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.8
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.9
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Common Core State Standard: W.7.9.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history").
Common Core State Standard: W.7.9.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. "Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims").
Common Core State Standard: W.7.10
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.1.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
Common Core State Standard: L.7.2
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.2.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.2.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Spell correctly.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.3
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.3.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.*
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word"s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.4.D
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5.A
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary, biblical, and mythological allusions) in context.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5.B
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
Common Core State Standard: L.7.5.C
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
Common Core State Standard: L.7.6
Grade: 7
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
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