Seventh+Grade+Content+Standards

__**Acquistion of Vocabulary **__  1. Define the meaning of unknown words through context clues and the author’s use of comparison, contrast, definition, restatement and example. 2. Apply knowledge of connotation and denotation to determine the meaning of words. 3. Infer word meanings through the identification of analogies and other word relationships, including synonyms and antonyms. 4. nterpret metaphors and similes to understand new uses of words and phrases in text. 5. Recognize and use words from other languages that have been adopted into the English language. 6. Use knowledge of Greek, Latin and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes to understand vocabulary. 7. Use knowledge of symbols and acronyms to identify whole words. 8. Determine the meanings and pronunciations of unknown words by using dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries, technology and textual features, such as definitional footnotes or sidebars.

__**Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies**__  1.Establish and adjust purposes for reading, including to find out, to understand, to interpret, to enjoy and to solve problems. 2. Predict or hypothesize as appropriate from information in the text, substantiating with specific references to textual examples that may be in widely separated sections of text. 3. Make critical comparisons across text, noting author’s style as well as literal and implied content of text. 4. Summarize the information in texts, using key ideas, supporting details and referencing gaps or contradictions. 5. Select, create and use graphic organizers to interpret textual information. 6. Answer literal, inferential, evaluative and synthesizing questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate print texts and electronic and visual media. 7. Monitor own comprehension by adjusting speed to fit the purpose, or by skimming, scanning, reading on, looking back, note taking or summarizing what has been read so far in text. 8. Use criteria to choose independent reading materials (e.g., personal interest, knowledge of authors and genres or recommendations from others). 9. Independently read books for various purposes (e.g., for enjoyment, for literary experience, to gain information or to perform a task).  __**Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text**__  1. Use text features, such as chapter titles, headings and subheadings; parts of books including index, appendix, table of contents and online tools (search engines) to locate information. 2. Analyze examples of cause and effect and fact and opinion. 3. Compare and contrast different sources of information, including books, magazines, newspapers and online resources, to draw conclusions about a topic. 4. Compare original text to a summary to determine the extent to which the summary adequately reflects the main ideas, critical details and underlying meaning of the original text. 5. Analyze information found in maps, charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, cutaways and overlays. 6. Assess the adequacy, accuracy and appropriateness of an author’s details, identifying persuasive techniques and examples of bias and stereotyping. 7. Identify an author’s purpose for writing and explain an author’s argument, perspective or viewpoint in text. 8. Compare the treatment, scope and organization of ideas from different texts on the same topic.

__**Reading Applications: Literary Text **__  1. Explain interactions and conflicts (e.g., character vs. self, nature or society) between main and minor characters in literary text and how the interactions affect the plot. 2. Analyze the features of the setting and their importance in a text. 3. Identify the main and minor events of the plot, and explain how each incident gives rise to the next. 4. Identify and compare subjective and objective points of view and how they affect the overall body of a work. 5. Identify recurring themes, patterns and symbols found in literature from different eras and cultures. 6. Explain the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including poetry, drama, myths, biographies, autobiographies, science fiction, fiction and non-fiction. 7. Interpret how mood or meaning is conveyed through word choice, figurative language and syntax.