The following is a guide for choosing targeted objectives and assessing the students’ learning.  These grade level expectations for Grades 3-8 are not to be taught in isolation. This guide identifies featured skills that will be assessed at the end of the appropriate quarter. Each assessment is cumulative, so all the expectations need to continue to spiral throughout the year with a new group of identified skills featured. Some GLEs targeted in previous grades may also be assessed. The March CMT will test all skills expected to be mastered. These skills come from the reading comprehension GLEs. 

The * indicates a featured skill for the quarter. 

The x indicates continued instruction and possible assessment.

P indicates a prior grade’s GLE

Grade Level Expectations — Grade 7

Students:

Fall

Winter

CMT

Spring

Compare and contrast universal themes, human nature, cultural and historical perspectives in multiple texts

*

x

x

Explain the author’s use of voice (e.g., formal, casual, intimate) and how this influences meaning.

*

x

x

Identify an author’s use of time and sequence through the use of literary devices (e.g., foreshadow, flashbacks, dream sequences, parallel episodes, and the use of traditional and/or cultural-based organizational patterns).

*

x

x

Identify the major actions that define the plot and how actions lead to conflict or resolution.

*

x

x

Respond to literal and inferential questions with explicit and implicit evidence from texts.

*

x

x

Analyze the characteristics and structural elements/essential attributes in a variety of poetic forms (e.g., epic, sonnet, ballad, haiku, free verse).

*

x

x

Compare and contrast authors’ and/or characters’ perspectives expressed in multiple texts.

*

x

Explain the similarities and differences in how an idea or concept is expressed in multiple texts.

*

x

Apply information in one text to understand a similar situation or concept in another text.

*

x

Explain the author’s purpose for writing a text.

*

Explain how readers’ experiences, ethics, values, assumptions and beliefs influence the interpretation of text.

*

Evaluate how an author's experiences, ethics, culture, heritage, ethnicity, values, assumptions and beliefs bias meaning.

*

Evaluate how authors, illustrators and filmmakers express political and social issues.

*

Evaluate ideas, themes and issues across texts.

*

Judge the validity of the evidence the author uses to support his/her position (e.g., is the evidence dated, biased, inaccurate) and justify the conclusion.

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