What does a student learn in StateOklahoma,GradeGrade 7,SubjectEnglish Language Arts?

Actively listen using agreed-upon discussion rules, recognizing verbal and nonverbal cues while maintaining social awareness and responding accordingly.

Actively listen and interpret a speaker's verbal and nonverbal messages and ask questions to clarify the speaker's purpose.

Work effectively and respectfully in diverse groups by showing willingness to make necessary compromises to accomplish a goal, sharing responsibility for collaborative work, and recognizing individual contributions.

Engage in collaborative discussions about what they are reading and writing, expressing their own ideas clearly while building on the ideas of others in pairs, diverse groups, and whole-class settings.

Give formal and informal presentations in a group or individually, providing evidence to support a main idea while determining the purpose, content, and form to suit the audience.

Summarize alphabetic and/or multimodal texts, including main idea and key details, to demonstrate comprehension within and between texts.

Analyze details in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction texts to distinguish genres.

Paraphrase a short passage in their own words to demonstrate comprehension.

Routinely and recursively prewrite (e.g., develop ideas and plan).

Routinely and recursively organize and develop ideas to compose a first draft.

Routinely and recursively revise drafts for intended purpose, audience, organization, and coherence (e.g., consistent point of view).

Routinely and recursively edit for correct grammar, usage, and mechanics, using various resources.

Routinely and recursively publish final drafts for an authentic audience (e.g., publishing digitally, performing, entering contests).

Read works written on the same topic from a variety of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives and compare the methods the authors use to achieve their purposes.

Evaluate how perspective (e.g., historical, cultural, ethnic, and global) affects a variety of literary and informational texts.

Analyze literary elements to support an interpretation of a text:- setting- plot- characters (i.e., protagonist, antagonist)- characterization- conflict (i.e., internal, external)- point of view (i.e., third person limited and omniscient and second person)

Analyze literary devices to support an interpretation of a text:- figurative language (i.e., simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, imagery, symbolism, idiom)- sound devices (i.e., onomatopoeia, alliteration)- verbal irony

Identify literary elements and devices that impact a text's theme and mood.

Distinguish factual claims from opinions.

Analyze how informational text structures support the author's purpose:- compare/contrast- cause/effect- problem/solution- description- sequential

Analyze multiple ideas from a text, providing textual evidence to support their inferences.

Compose narratives reflecting real or imagined experiences that:- include plots involving complex characters resolving conflicts- unfold in chronological or surprising sequence (e.g., foreshadowing)- include a narrator, precise language, sensory details, dialogue, and thoughts to enhance the narrative- use sentence variety to create clarity- emulate literary elements and/or literary devices from mentor texts

Compose informative essays or reports that:- objectively introduce and develop topics- incorporate evidence (e.g., specific facts, details, charts and graphs, data)- maintain an organized structure- use sentence variety and word choice to create clarity- establish and maintain a formal style- emulate literary devices from mentor texts

Compose argumentative essays that:- introduce precise claims- organize claims and evidence in a logical sequence- provide relevant evidence to develop arguments, using credible sources- use sentence variety and word choice to create clarity- establish and maintain a formal style

Analyze the relationships among synonyms, antonyms, and analogies.

Use context clues, connotation, and denotation to determine or clarify the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words.

Use word parts (e.g., affixes, Greek roots, stems) to define and determine the meaning of increasingly complex words.

Use a dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus to determine or clarify the meanings, syllabication, pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, and parts of speech of words.

Use precise, grade-level vocabulary in writing to clearly communicate ideas.

Select language in writing to create a specific effect according to purpose.

Recognize simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences and explain their effects.

Recognize and explain the impact on meaning of parts of speech in sentences:- nouns-gerunds- subject and verb agreement- cumulative and coordinate adjectives- demonstrative pronouns- vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents)- singular they / them / their- correlative conjunctions- adverbs- interjections

Compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to add clarity and variety in their writing.

Add clarity and variety to their writing with nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, and pronouns.

Recognize and correct the following: run-ons, errors in subject and verb agreement, inappropriate shifts in verb tense, and vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).

Write using correct capitalization mechanics.

Write using correct end mark mechanics.

Write using correct apostrophe mechanics.

Use commas to separate words or phrases in a series.

Use a colon to introduce a quotation from a source.

Use quotation marks to indicate dialogue, quoted material, and titles of works.

Use underlining or italics to indicate titles of works, thoughts in narratives, and words in a foreign language.

Use a semicolon to punctuate compound and compound-complex sentences.

Find and comprehend information (e.g., claims, evidence) about a topic, using their own viable research questions.

Find, record, and organize information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, following ethical and legal guidelines.

Determine the relevance, reliability, and validity of the information gathered.

Formulate and refine a viable research question.

Develop a clear, concise thesis statement.

Quote and summarize findings following a consistent citation style (e.g., MLA, APA) to avoid plagiarism.

Create research papers and/or projects independently for shorter timeframes (e.g., two or three days) and over extended periods of time (e.g., one week).

Compare and contrast the effectiveness of techniques used in a variety of alphabetic, aural, visual, spatial, and/or gestural content from various perspectives.

Create multimodal content (i.e., alphabetic, aural, visual, gestural and/or spatial) that effectively communicates ideas for an intended audience.

Read self-selected texts independently and for various lengths of time, choosing genres to suit and expand their personal preferences and purposes.

Write independently using print, cursive, and/or typing for various lengths of time, choosing and combining modes and genres to suit their audience and purpose.