ELA 7

Major skills: Close reading and finding and evaluating evidence from the text.  Core reads: Determined by teacher CCSS Reading Literature Standards Emphasis: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6 CCSS Reading Informational Text Emphasis: 7.1, 7.2 CCSS Writing Standards: 7.1, 7.7 CCSS Language Stan…

Major Skills: Understanding the various structures of literary and informational texts, understanding author's point of view and how that influences a text's structure; understanding an author's use of craft; developing student's own craft and style Core reads: Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cr…

Major Skills: Understanding how to read and evaluate argumentative texts; understanding and identifying author's point of view and how that influences the author's claims; understanding and evaluating author's evidence that backs up his/her claims; writing effective argumentative text with ade…

Major Skills: Understanding how to engage in short and longer-term inquiry and research activities. Understand how to embed evidence into explanatory and argumentative texts. Understand how to maintain appropriate styles and structures of text in writing.  Core reads: Determined by teache…