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Enduring
Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years
beyond the instruction received this year.
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Effective readers use different strategies and
skills to understand a variety of texts.
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Effective readers are independent learners who
use critical thinking skills.
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Effective readers are able to select and use
relevant information that requires evaluating a variety of sources.
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Effective readers know that literature provides an understanding
of human experience.
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Effective writers utilize the writing process to organize and
strengthen all modes of writing.
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Effective writers practice and use editing skills for self
and peer writing evaluation.
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Effective writers use conventions correctly.
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Effective writers write in complete sentences varying
sentence structure and length using appropriately punctuated, dependent
clauses.
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Effective writers identify and use the parts of speech
correctly.
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Effective writers know their audience and purpose.
Essential Questions
- most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer
after completing learning activities.
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What is text? How do we apply different
strategies and skills to understand a variety of texts?
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How do we communicate? What is effective
communication? Why does effective communication require a process?
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What is standard English? Why do we need to
know and use standard English rules?
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How do we apply stylistic elements and
appropriate formats?
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What is critical thinking? How do we think
critically in our lives?
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What is responsible research? What makes
information relevant?
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How do I use information?
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What is literature?
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How can we make personal connections through literature?
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What makes us human?
 Highest
Frequency Standards
Reading
1c/1f/4e. Determine the main idea or essential message in a text/Find
support in the text for main ideas/Explain the text's main point and use
relevant details to support the explanation
1i. Use context clues to determine the meaning
of unfamiliar words
4d. Make predictions, draw conclusions, and
analyze what they read, hear, view
5a. Use organizational features of printed text
to locate information
6b. Use literary terminology accurately (setting, character, conflict, plot,
resolution, dialect, point of view)
6c. Apply
knowledge of literary techniques (foreshadowing, metaphor, simile,
personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, flashback)
Writing
2a. Write in a variety of genre -
narrative/descriptive
2b. Develop ideas and content with significant
details, examples, and/or reasons.
2c. Organize ideas so that there is an inviting
introduction, logical arrangement of ideas, and a satisfying conclusion.
3a. Identify parts of speech, such as nouns, pronouns,
verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.
3b. Use standard English usage in writing, including
subject/verb agreement (pronoun referents, modifiers, homonyms, and
homophones.)
3c. Write in complete sentences.
3d. Use paragraphs correctly so that each paragraph is
differentiated by indenting or blocking and includes one major but focused
idea.
3e. Use conventional spelling in published work. (writing and
editing)
3f. Punctuate correctly (for example: apostrophes, quotation
marks, end marks, and commas) (writing and editing)
High
Frequency Standards
Reading
1g. Use words recognition skills (roots,
prefixes, suffixes) to comprehend text
1h.
Find the sequence of steps in a technical publication
4a. Recognize
and author's or speaker's point of view and purpose
4c.
Distinguish between fact and opinion
5c.
Paraphrase, summarize, and synthesize information about a topic in a variety
of ways (ex. Graphic organizers)
6a/6d. Read,
respond to a variety of fiction and poetry/ Read, respond to, and discuss
literature that represents points of view from places, people, and events
that are familiar and unfamiliar.
Writing
2d. Use transitions to link ideas.
2e. Plan, draft, revise, and edit for a
legible final copy.
2f. Use a variety of sentence structures with
varied length.
2g. Write with a voice appropriate to purpose
and audience.
2h. Choose a range of words that are precise
and vivid.
Other
Standards & E-skills
1a. Compare and contrast fiction and poetry texts with similar characters,
plots, themes
1b. Summarize fiction and poetry
1e.
Infer by making connection between separated sections of a text
4b. Use
reading to solve problems and answer questions
5f. Locate meanings and pronunciations of
unfamiliar words using dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources
5g.
Give credit for borrowed information by listing sources
Grade 7 Essential
Vocabulary
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Visual Thesaurus - use
the approved District 11 login and password to the right:
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User Name:
ms68@d11.org
Password:
d112009 |
Research confirms that students need at least 6
opportunities through varied activities to experience new vocabulary in
order to acquire a conceptual understanding.
The following activities are endorsed by the
Mid-Continental Research in Education Laboratory (MCREL) Six Step Strategy
to Improving Vocabulary. Instead of looking at a dictionary first, follow
the 6 steps to insure students have a full understanding. Read more about
Research on Teaching
Vocabulary.
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Step 1: Teacher
provides a description, explanation, or example of the term
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Step 2: Student
restates the description, explanation, or example in his/her own words
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Step 3: Student
designs a visual representation
Use the suggested
Vocabulary
Activities for Steps 4-6.
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Step 4: Student
completes activities that provide practice for using terms in writing
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Step 5: Students
review and discuss word meanings
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Step 6: Students
practice words with games
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