Learning Targets

 Seventh Grade Reading 

Quarter 3 Unit: Community

Please note that the teaching of reading is “circular” and that the 1^st semester targets will be repeated as needed throughout the second term.  The following is a list of new targets.

Students’ third nine weeks grade will be based on evidence they can do the following:

• Recognize the techniques of propaganda, such as bandwagon
• Identify examples of sound devices within context:  rhyme, alliteration, slant rhyme, repetition, and internal rhyme
• Recognize first person point of view
• Identify poetic devices within context examples of similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, and hyperbole
• Rank a set of resources according to their reliability
• Distinguish between primary and secondary sources
• Use a variety of reference resources to get information and then demonstrate ability to represent and analyze the information

Please note that the teaching of reading is “circular” and that the 1^st nine weeks targets will be repeated as needed throughout the school year.  The following is a complete list of targets.

Students’ second nine weeks grade will be based on evidence they can do the following:

• Create readable documents
• Develop and use notes
• Read for a variety of purposes, including reading for personal pleasure
• Keep a reading log
• Make connections to literature, including self-text, text-text, and world-text
• Locate information in graphs, timelines, etc.
• Ask questions about passages before, during, and after reading
• Make  predictions of future events in a reading passage
• Draw inferences from selected passages
• Select information using keywords, subheadings, and headings
• Determine cause and effect relationships in events
• Recognize and use grade appropriate vocabulary
• Use an appropriate word to complete an analogy
• Identify on a plot organizer the points at which various plot elements occur
• Identify at least two ways an author reveals character
• Recognize words within context that reveal particular cultures and time periods and foreign phrases
• Identify author’s purpose and reader’s purpose for reading
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Use synonyms and antonyms correctly
• Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown or unfamiliar words
• Recognize literacy elements that shape meaning within context, such as flashback, symbolism, and foreshadowing
• Distinguish among different genres:  poetry, drama, short stories, novels, nonfiction, poetry, prose, biography, and autobiographies
• Identify main ideas / central elements / theme in reading
• Identify examples of propaganda techniques

Quarter 2 Unit: World

Performance Based Assessment: Students will read fiction and informational text about teens who have a goal and the choices teens make about how to achieve that goal.  Then they will use a variety of informational text materials (newspapers, catalogs, websites, etc.) to research goals they would like to achieve.  Following their research, students will write a persuasive letter to a specific audience which supports his or her goal.

Students’ first nine weeks grade will be based on evidence they can do the following:

• Develop and use notes
• Read for a variety of purposes, including reading for personal pleasure
• Keep a reading log
• Make connections to literature, including self-text, text-text, and world-text
• Locate information in graphs, timelines, etc.
• Ask questions about passages before, during, and after reading
• Make  predictions of future events in a reading passage
• Draw inferences from selected passages
• Select information using keywords, subheadings, and headings
• Determine cause and effect relationships in events
• Recognize and use grade appropriate vocabulary
• Use an appropriate word to complete an analogy
• Identify on a plot organizer the points at which various plot elements occur
• Identify at least two ways an author reveals character
• Recognize words within context that reveal particular cultures and time periods and foreign phrases
• Identify author’s purpose and reader’s purpose for reading
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Use synonyms and antonyms correctly
• Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown or unfamiliar words