| LANGUAGE ARTS TESTED OBJECTIVES | ||||
| Seventh Grade | ||||
| Internet Resource Alignment | ||||
| SPI | Assessed Objective | Internet Resources | ||
| Powerpoint | United Streaming | Websites | ||
| READING | ||||
| The student will develop reading and listening skills necessary for word recognition, comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation and appreciation of print and nonprint texts. | ||||
| 7.1.1 | Derive information from the following text features: timelines, graphs, headings and subheadings. | |||
| 7.1.4 | Make predictions about the outcome of a given passage. | |||
| 7.1.5 | Formulate clarifying questions for use before, during, or after reading. | |||
| 7.1.21 | Recognize implied themes. | |||
| 7.1.16 | Draw inferences from selected passages. | |||
| 7.1.6 | Identify the main idea/central element in a reading selection. | Reading Workshop: Inferring | ||
| 7.1.17 | Identify the author’s purpose for writing and the reader’s purpose for reading. | |||
| 7.1.20 | Determine the common characteristics of short stories, novels, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. | |||
| 7.1.18 | Analyze cause and effect relationships in a given passage. | |||
| 7.1.7 | Distinguish between fact and opinion within context. | Tutorial:Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion | ||
| 7.1.10 | Recognize and use grade appropriate and/or content specific vocabulary within context. | |||
| 7.1.3 | Replace unknown words in context with appropriate synonyms and/or antonyms. | Antonym Finder and Synonym Thesaurus | ||
| 7.1.8 | Decode unknown grade level words in context, using previously learned strategies, such as analysis of affixes, as aids in determining meaning. | |||
| 7.1.2 | Determine the meaning of unknown words and/or multiple meaning words through the use of context clues. | Context is the Key | ||
| Antonym Finder and Synonym Thesaurus | ||||
| 7.1.14 | Select the correct word or phrase to complete an analogy using synonyms, antonyms, categories, subcategories, whole/part, functions, verb forms, and rhymes. | |||
| 7.1.24 | Identify words that serve as clues to reveal time periods and cultures. | |||
| 7.1.15 | Identify commonly used foreign phrases (e.g., bon voyage; mi casa es su casa, bon jour, hasta la vista). | Foreign Words and Phrases1 | ||
| 7.1.22 | Identify similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole within context. | Literary Terms | ||
| 7.1.13 | Distinguish between poetry and prose and between biography and autobiography. | |||
| 7.1.25 | Identify at least two ways by which an author reveals character traits in a given passage. | |||
| 7.1.28 | Identify examples of sound devices (e.g., rhyme, alliteration, slant rhyme, repetition, and internal rhyme). | |||
| 7.1.11 | Identify plot elements in the proper place on a graphic organizer. | |||
| 7.1.26 | Identify symbolism, flashback, and foreshadowing, within context. | |||
| 7.1.27 | Rank a given set of resources according to reliability. | |||
| 7.1.12 | Locate information using key words and headings. | News quizzes archive: News to me | ||
| 7.1.9 | Recognize first person point of view. | |||
| 7.1.23 | Analyze the effect within context of the sound devices of onomatopoeia, alliteration, accent, rhyme, and repetition. | |||
| 7.1.19 | Identify examples of propaganda techniques (i.e., bandwagon). | |||
| WRITING | ||||
| The student will develop the structural and creative skills necessary to produce written language that can be read, presented to and interpreted by various audiences. | ||||
| 7.2.6 | Supply a missing piece of information in an outline. | |||
| 7.2.13 | Select the most appropriate title for a passage. | |||
| 7.2.12 | Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph. | |||
| 7.2.5 | Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well-developed paragraph. | |||
| 7.2.11 | Identify the sentence(s) irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow. | |||
| 7.2.10 | Select the best way to combine sentences to provide syntactic variety. | |||
| 7.2.9 | Select an appropriate thesis statement from a writing sample. | |||
| 7.2.2 | Select appropriate time order or transitional words to enhance the flow of a writing sample. | |||
| 7.2.7 | Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order. | |||
| 7.2.8 | Identify individual written selections as technical, narrative, persuasive and/or descriptive in mood. | Club Write Episode 105: Persuasive Writing (15:00) | ||
| Club Write Episode 106: Descriptive Writing (15:00) | ||||
| Club Write Episode 107: Expository Writing (15:00) | ||||
| 7.2.1 | Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., clustering, listing, mapping, and webbing) with information from notes on a writing selection. | |||
| 7.2.3 | Identify the purpose for writing (e.g., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade). | Club Write Kids Episode 104: Writing to Persuade (15:00) | ||
| 7.2.4 | Identify the audience (formal/informal) for which the text is written. | |||
| 7.2.14 | Identify levels of reliability among resources (e.g., eyewitness account, newspaper account, supermarket tabloid, and internet source). | |||
| 7.2.15 | Select illustrations, explanations, anecdotes, descriptions, and/or facts to support key ideas. | |||
| ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE | ||||
| The student will use standard English conventions and proper spelling as appropriate to speaking and writing. | ||||
| 7.3.5a | Identify the correct use of nouns (common/proper, singular/plural, collective, compound, possessives, direct/indirect objects, and predicate nouns); | Possessive Nouns | Segment 2: Common and Proper Nouns (01:05) | Power Proofreading |
| Segment 3: Plural Formations (02:43) | ||||
| Segment 4: Noun Cases (06:38) | ||||
| Part Two: Objects, Predicate Nominatives, and Predicate Adjectives (03:55) | ||||
| 7.3.5b | Identify the correct use of verbs (action/linking, agreement with subject, verbs that take objects, linking verbs, verb phrases, regular/irregular verbs, three simple and three perfect tenses, and tense consistency); | Irregular and Helping Verbs | Section B: Verb Tenses (18:39) | Power Proofreading |
| Part One: Simple Sentences and Verbal Phrases (02:54) | ||||
| 7.3.5c | Identify the correct use of pronouns (case, reflexive, interrogative, demonstrative, agreement with antecedent); | Pronouns | Segment 3: Pronoun Cases (04:01) | Power Proofreading |
| Segment 4: Relative and Interrogative Pronouns (06:38) | ||||
| Section B: Vague Pronoun References (03:11) | ||||
| 7.3.5d | Identify the correct use of adjectives (common/proper, comparative/superlative forms, compound predicate adjectives, and adjective clauses); | Part One: Adjectives (04:03) | Power Proofreading | |
| Part Two: Adjective Degrees of Comparison (04:08) | ||||
| 7.3.5e | Identify the correct use of adverbs (comparative/superlative, introductory phrases and clauses, and placement within the sentence); | Adverb Phrases | Part Three: Adverbs (01:48) | Power Proofreading |
| Part Four: Adverbial Degrees of Comparison (04:23) | ||||
| 7.3.5f | Identify the correct use of conjunctions (coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions combining words, phrases, and clauses); | Section C: Conjunctions (02:19) | ||
| Part Two: Conjunctions (04:19) | ||||
| 7.3.5g | Identify the correct use of interjections. | Section D: Interjections (01:37) | ||
| Part One: Interjections (03:04) | ||||
| 7.3.7 | Identify the correct use of prepositions and prepositional phrases within context. | Prepositions | Section B: Prepositions (03:22) | |
| Part Three: Prepositions (05:52) | ||||
| 7.3.2 | Recognize and correct usage errors (e.g. subject/verb agreement, pronoun case {with emphasis on who/whom}), double negatives, comparative and superlative forms, troublesome word pairs {rise/raise, stationary/stationery, complement/compliment, beside/besides}). | Double Negatives | Double Negatives | |
| Homophone Search | ||||
| 7.3.1 | Identify the correct use of commas (e.g., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory works, appositives, and interrupters) within context. | The Comma-rama | Section A: Separating Items on a List (06:00) | Power Proofreading |
| Section B: Introductory Clauses and Phrases (05:40) | ||||
| Section B: Introductory Clauses and Phrases (continued from Program One) (03:55) | ||||
| 7.3.3 | Identify the correct use of colons (e.g., in business letters, introductory words, and preceding a list of items) within context. | Section B: The Colon (02:44) | Power Proofreading | |
| 7.3.4 | Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas (e.g., in direct quotations, with explanatory material within the quote, and proper use with end marks). | Flying Through Quotation Marks | Section B: Quotation Marks (15:05) | |
| 7.3.11 | Select the appropriate use of underlining/italicizing with titles, specific words, numbers, and letters. | |||
| 7.3.9 | Identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context. | Free English Lessons: Spelling | ||
| 7.3.10 | Recognize and use appositives and appositive phrases and infinitives and infinitive phases within the context. | Part Two: Infinitives (02:43) | ||
| 7.3.8 | Select the most appropriate way to correct a run-on sentence (e.g., conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or to separate elements) in order to provide syntactic variety within context. | Run-on Sentences | Section C: Run-On Sentences (01:47) | |
| 7.3.6 | Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, and introductory phrases and/or clauses). | Sentence Variety | Part Five: Clauses and Compound Sentences (03:34) | Power Proofreading |