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Grade 7 Reading Standards
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Standard
(Curriculum)
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Instruction and
Assessment
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Standard 1. The
student understands and uses different skills and strategies to
read.
1.1 Uses word recognition and word
meaning skills to read and comprehend text
* Uses language structure
to understand reading materials including sentence structure,
prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and simple
abbreviations
* Integrates appropriate
reading strategies to adapt reading to different types of
text
* Uses a variety of
reading strategies to comprehend words and ideas including
self-correcting, re-reading, reading-on, and slowing
down
* Understands and applies
reading strategies including word origins, word roots, prefixes,
suffixes; making predictions; and verifying and revising
understanding while reading
* Analyzes text for a
specific purpose
* Interprets general and
specialized vocabulary critical to the meaning of the
text
1.2 Builds vocabulary
through reading
* Constructs general and
specialized vocabularies through reading in specific fields of
academic study (e.g., science, social studies, mathematics, the
arts)
1.3 Reads fluently,
adjusting reading for purpose and material
* Reads accurately and
fluently at Stage
J
* Skims and scans to
select books or locate information
* Reads both orally and
silently with ease
* Adjusts reading pace to
accommodate the form, style, and difficulty of material and purpose
of reading; samples text rather than focusing on every
detail
1.4 Understands
elements of literature
* Identifies literary
devices (figurative language, exaggeration, irony, humor,
dialogue)
* Understands sentence
structure, paragraphs, and chapters
* Analyzes literary
elements (e.g., plot, characters, setting, theme, point of view,
conflict, resolution)
* Understands sequence of
events
1.5 Uses features of
nonfiction text and computer software
* Locates specific
information to pursue an interest or complete a project; analyzes
the validity of electronic information
* Uses organizational
features of printed text (e.g., titles, headings, table of
contents, indexes, glossaries, prefaces, appendices,
captions)
* Uses organizational
features of electronic information (e.g., CD-ROM,
internet)
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Instructional Support
Materials
* Elements of
Literature (Holt
Rinehart)
Instructional
Strategies
1.1
* Morphology and
etymology
* Guided
reading
* Key word
* List-group-label
* Word
wall
Assessment
* CBA's
* Portfolio, student
work
*
Informal reading
inventory
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Standard 2. The
student understands the meaning of what is
read.
2.1 Comprehends
important ideas and details
* Demonstrates
comprehension of complex texts including fiction, nonfiction,
information, and task-oriented texts
* Readily identifies and
comprehends the main idea and supporting facts and details;
summarizes ideas in own words
* Links characters,
events, and information to prior knowledge, previous experience,
and current issues to increase understanding
* Makes, confirms, or
revises predictions and inferences based on the reading
text
2.2 Expands
comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing
information and ideas
* Compares, contrasts, and
makes connections within and among several texts
* Uses logical sequence to
accurately retell stories; orders and/or sequences parts of
text
2.3 Thinks critically
and analyzes authors' use of language, style, purpose, and
perspective
* Evaluates the validity
of what is read
* Recognizes that authors
make language choices to influence an audience
* Evaluates an author's
effectiveness for a chosen audience
* Recognizes the author's
point of view, tone, and use of persuasive devices
* Applies information
gained from reading to give a response and express
insight
* Makes generalizations
beyond the text to other texts, ideas, or situations
* Evaluates reasoning and
ideas related to a text
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Instructional Support
Materials
* Elements of
Literature (Holt
Rinehart)
Instructional
Strategies
2.1
* Circle frame
map
* Anticipation
guide
* Multi-flow
map
* Double bubble
map
Assessment
* Portfolio, evidence of
student work
* CBA's
* Informal reading
inventories
* WASL
* Developmental Reading Assessment 4-8 (DRA)
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Standard 3. The student
reads different materials for a variety of purposes.
3.1 Reads to learn new
information and
3.2 Reads to perform a task
* Observes and uses signs,
labels, and instructions
* Evaluates the
appropriateness of a variety of resource materials for a specific
task
* Understands and uses
materials to investigate a topic (e.g., reference materials,
encyclopedia, manuals, public documents, newspapers and magazine
articles, trade publications)
* Reads and comprehends a
full range of texts fluently (e.g., instructions, novels,
professional-level materials that match career interests,
electronic information)
* Reads and understands
information to perform a specific task (e.g., schedules, maps,
instructions, newspaper want ads, consumer reports, travel books,
first aid manuals, catalogs, yellow pages)
3.3 Reads for
literary experience in a variety of forms
* Reads, responds to, and
evaluates a variety of traditional and contemporary literature
(e.g., poetry, essays, short stories, novels, biographies,
nonfiction, narratives, plays)
* Reads, discusses, and
uses literature to understand a variety of perspectives of self,
others, and world issues
* Identifies recurring
themes in literature (e.g., identity, conflict and struggle, and
social and economic change)
3.4 Reads for career
applications
* Identifies particular
documents one might be required to read for occupational/career
areas of interest
* Locates and interprets
technical and non-technical documents from different career
settings (e.g., blueprints, graphs, tables,
policies)
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Instructional Support
Materials
* Elements of
Literature (Holt
Rinehart)
Instructional
Strategies
3.1 - 3.4
* Think aloud
* Themed units
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QAR's
* Note-taking (e.g.,
sticky notes, 2-column)
* Literature
circles
* Assignments with
authentic purposes that use various genres
* Wide variety of reading
materials available
* KWL
* Bubble map
* Brace map
* I-search
reports
* Saturation
reports
Assessment
* Checklists
* Reading
logs
* Learning
logs
* Thinking
maps
* WASL
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4.1 Assesses strengths
and need for improvement
* Uses a variety of
strategies to monitor reading progress and to overcome
difficulties
* Sets reading goals and
develops strategies to meet goals and monitor
progress
4.2 Seeks and offers
feedback to improve reading
* Develops shared
standards and evaluates reading skills (e.g., fluency,
comprehension) for self and others
* Discusses own and
others' responses to reading
4.3 Develops
interests and shares reading experiences
* Expresses reasons for
recommending books to others; shares reading experiences with
others
* Reads
independently
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Instructional
Strategies
4.1 -
4.3
* Goal
setting
* Independent
reading (DEAR, WEB,
SSR)
* Think aloud
* Reading
logs
* Learning
logs
* Metacognition
* Reflective
journals
Assessments
* Learning
logs
* Portfolios
* Checklists
* Rubrics
* Self-assessment
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* Instructional
strategies are suggestions only. There are many additional
strategies that are appropriate.
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