1. Common Core State Standards
2. ELA/Literacy

Grade 7

Outcomes

• Reading Literature
  • Key Ideas and Details
    • 7.RL.2
      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.
      Play Activities 3
      Examples
  • Craft and Structure
    • 7.RL.4
      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.
      Play Activities 6
      Examples
    • 7.RL.5
      Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
      Play Activities 1
      Examples
  • Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
    • 7.RL.10
      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.
      Play Activities 25
      Examples
• Reading Informational
  • Key Ideas and Details
    • 7.RI.1
      Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
      Play Activities 3
      Examples
    • 7.RI.2
      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.
      Play Activities 1
      Examples
  • Craft and Structure
    • 7.RI.5
      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.
      Play Activities 9
      Examples
  • Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
    • 7.RI.10
      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.
      Play Activities 12
      Examples
• Language
  • Conventions of Standard English
    • 7.L.1
      Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
      Play Activities 82
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    • 7.L.2
      Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
      Play Activities 17
      Examples
    • 7.L.2.b
      Spell correctly.
      Play Activities 88
      Examples
  • Knowledge of Language
    • 7.L.3
      Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
      Play Activities 2
      Examples
    • 7.L.3.a
      Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.*
      Play Activities 1
      Examples
  • Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
    • 7.L.4.a
      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.
      Play Activities 21
      Examples
    • 7.L.5
      Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
      Play Activities 41
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    • 7.L.5.b
      Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
      Play Activities 57
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    • 7.L.5.c
      Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
      Play Activities 10
      Examples