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English language arts · 2017 framework
Grade 7 · 41 / 42 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2017:RL.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. |
| ela-2017:RL.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze literary text development. |
| ela-2017:RL.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). |
| ela-2017:RL.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific language choices, such as sensory words or phrases, on meaning and tone, including 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. |
| ela-2017:RL.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning. |
| ela-2017:RL.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how an author uses the point of view to develop and contrast the perspectives of different characters or narrators in a text. |
| ela-2017:RL.7.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast a written 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). |
| ela-2017:RL.7.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2017:RL.7.9 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:RL.7.10 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. Build background knowledge and activate prior knowledge in order to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that deepen understanding of the text. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze informational text development. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | 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). |
| ela-2017:RI.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine an author's perspective or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.7 | Provisional target; review pending | 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). |
| ela-2017:RI.7.8 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.9 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:RI.7.10 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:W.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. |
| ela-2017:W.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. |
| ela-2017:W.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. |
| ela-2017:W.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | 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.) |
| ela-2017:W.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | 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.) |
| ela-2017:W.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:W.7.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation. |
| ela-2017:W.7.8 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:W.7.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. |
| ela-2017:W.7.10 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:SL.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. |
| ela-2017:SL.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:SL.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. |
| ela-2017:SL.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. |
| ela-2017:SL.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points. |
| ela-2017:SL.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 7 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.) |
| ela-2017:L.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2017:L.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2017:L.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. |
| ela-2017:L.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:L.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2017:L.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
Grade band 6-8 · 29 / 30 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze content-area-specific text development. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered). |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally). |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's perspective or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts). |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic. |
| ela-2017:RH.6-8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 8, read, comprehend, and respond to history/social studies texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze content-area-specific text development. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to an understanding of the topic. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation in a text. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic. |
| ela-2017:RST.6-8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 8, read, comprehend, and respond to science/technical texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.3 | Not applicable at this grade | (See note; not applicable as a separate requirement) |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.5 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.8 | Provisional target; review pending | 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. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research. |
| ela-2017:WHST.6-8.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for 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. |
English language arts · 2026 framework
Grade 7 · 45 / 46 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2026:RL.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite several pieces of text evidence to support analysis of what a text states explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, quoting or paraphrasing as appropriate. |
| ela-2026:RL.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze literary text development. |
| ela-2026:RL.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how key elements of a story or drama impact plot and character development. |
| ela-2026:RL.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in a literary text. |
| ela-2026:RL.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how the form or structure (e.g. soliloquy, sonnet) of a drama or poem contributes to its meaning. |
| ela-2026:RL.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how an author uses point of view to develop and contrast the perspectives of different narrators, speakers, or characters in a literary text. |
| ela-2026:RL.7.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast a literary text 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). |
| ela-2026:RL.7.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2026:RL.7.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period to help understand how authors of fiction use or alter history. |
| ela-2026:RL.7.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Read and comprehend grade-level literary text, with scaffolding as needed. Use prior knowledge and previous experiences in order to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite several pieces of text evidence to support analysis of what an informational text states explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, quoting or paraphrasing as appropriate. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze informational text development. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | 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). |
| ela-2026:RI.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Explain how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections and text features contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine an author's perspective and/or purpose in an informational text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast an informational text to an audio, video, or multimedia version, analyzing each medium's portrayal of the topic (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words). |
| ela-2026:RI.7.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Trace and evaluate the argument in an informational text. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic present information differently by choosing different evidence or offering different interpretations of facts. |
| ela-2026:RI.7.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Read and comprehend grade-level informational texts, with scaffolding as needed. Use prior knowledge and previous experiences in order to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections and comparisons. |
| ela-2026:RF.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | |
| ela-2026:RF.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Read grade-level texts with sufficient fluency to support comprehension. |
| ela-2026:WF.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write fluently and legibly in manuscript and/or cursive, at a pace that supports sustained composition and notetaking. |
| ela-2026:WF.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate morphological awareness, multisyllabic word construction, syllable division principles, and spelling rules (or generalizations) to encode words accurately. |
| ela-2026:W.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write argumentative pieces that include: |
| ela-2026:W.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory pieces that include: |
| ela-2026:W.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives that develop real or imagined sequenced events that include: |
| ela-2026:W.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
| ela-2026:W.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | With gradually fading adult support, plan, revise, and edit writing to improve clarity, organization, and conventions (e.g., capitalization, punctuation, spelling), using feedback from adults or peers. |
| ela-2026:W.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use a variety of digital skills (e.g. keyboarding) and tools (e.g. multimedia platforms) to produce and publish writing, link and/or cite sources, and collaborate with others. |
| ela-2026:W.7.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct independent research projects to answer a question by: |
| ela-2026:W.7.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Gather and use relevant information from multiple print and digital resources. |
| ela-2026:W.7.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Use evidence from grade-appropriate literary or informational texts to support analysis, elaboration, reflection, and research. |
| ela-2026:W.7.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely in a single session and/or over multiple sessions; engage in planning, drafting, editing, and revising for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
| ela-2026:SL.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Participate in discussions about seventh grade topics and texts in small groups or whole-class settings, following agreed upon rules. |
| ela-2026:SL.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media (e.g. video, audio, primary source document) and other formats (e.g. charts, tables, infographics) and explain how the ideas clarify a text, topic, or issue under study. |
| ela-2026:SL.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating soundness of reasoning and the relevance, accuracy, and sufficiency of the evidence. |
| ela-2026:SL.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Present claims and findings using: |
| ela-2026:SL.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to clarify claims and findings and emphasize the most notable points. |
| ela-2026:SL.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal language when indicated or appropriate. |
| ela-2026:L.7.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply formal American English grammar, usage, and mechanics when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2026:L.7.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Know and apply formal American English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2026:L.7.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. |
| ela-2026:L.7.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown words or multiple-meaning words or phrases. |
| ela-2026:L.7.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2026:L.7.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases acquired through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. |