Grade 7
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.
October 1, 20187.SL.2
Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
October 1, 20187.RL.1
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
October 1, 20187.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.
October 1, 20187.RL.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
October 1, 20187.L.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
October 1, 20187.L.5b
Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
October 1, 20187.L.1a
Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
October 1, 20187.L.5c
Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
October 1, 20187.L.1b
Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
October 1, 20187.L.6
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.
October 1, 20187.L.1c
Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
October 1, 2018