GRADE+7+ELA+STANDARDS

=NEW YORK STATE GRADE 7 LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS:=




 * New York Language Arts Standards for Grade 7 **
 * NY.1. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
 * 1.1. Locate and use school and public library resources to acquire information
 * 1.2. Interpret data, facts, and ideas from informational texts by applying thinking skills, such as define, classify, and infer
 * 1.3. Preview informational texts, with guidance, to assess content and organization and select texts useful for the task
 * 1.4. Use indexes to locate information and glossaries to define terms
 * 1.5. Use knowledge of structure, content, and vocabulary to understand informational text
 * 1.6. Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information
 * 1.7. Identify missing, conflicting, and/or unclear information
 * 1.8. Formulate questions to be answered by reading informational text, with assistance
 * 1.9. Compare and contrast information from a variety of different sources
 * 1.10. Condense, combine, or categorize new information from one or more sources
 * 1.11. Draw conclusions and make inferences on the basis of explicit and implied information
 * 1.12. Make, confirm, or revise predictions
 * NY.2. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
 * 2.1. Recognize that one text may generate multiple interpretations
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.2. Interpret characters, plot, setting, and theme, using evidence from the text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.3. Identify the author's point of view, such as first-person narrator and omniscient narrator
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.4. Recognize recurring themes in a variety of literary works
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.5. Determine how the use and meaning of literary devices (e.g., symbolism, metaphor and simile, alliteration, personification, flashback, and foreshadowing) convey the author's message or intent
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.6. Recognize how the author's use of language creates images or feelings
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.7. Identify poetic elements, such as repetition, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, in order to interpret poetry
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.8. Read silently and aloud from a variety of genres, authors, and themes
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.9. Identify questions of personal importance and interest, and list works of literature that addresses them
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.10. Compare motives of characters, causes of events, and importance of setting in literature to people, events, and places in their own lives
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.11. Identify social and cultural context and other characteristics of the time period to enhance understanding and appreciation of text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.12. Compare a film, video, or stage version of a literary work with the written version
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.3. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.1. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to identify conflicting information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.2. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to consider the background and qualifications of the writer
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.3. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to evaluate examples, details, or reasons used to support ideas
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.4. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to identify propaganda, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.5. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to identify techniques used to persuade, such as emotional and ethical appeals, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.6. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to identify differing points of view in texts and presentations
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.7. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to identify cultural and ethnic values and their impact on content
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.8. Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, themes, opinions, and experiences in text to identify multiple levels of meaning
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.9. Judge a text by using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives, such as literary and personal, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.10. Recognize the effect of one's own point of view in evaluating ideas, information, opinions, and issues
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.4. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.1. Share reading experiences with peers or adults; for example, read together silently or aloud with a partner or in small groups
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.2. Consider the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the writer
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.3. Recognize conversational tone in social communication
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.4. Recognize the types of language (e.g., informal, culture-specific terminology, jargon, colloquialisms, and email conventions) that are appropriate to social communication
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.1. Writing: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.1. Use several sources of information, in addition to an encyclopedia, in developing research reports
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.2. Identify an appropriate format for sharing information with an intended audience
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.3. Take research notes, using a note-taking process, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.4. Use outlines and graphic organizers, such as semantic webs, to plan reports, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.5. Include relevant information and exclude irrelevant information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.6. Use paraphrase and quotation correctly
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.7. Connect, compare, and contrast ideas and information from one or more sources
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.8. Support ideas with examples, definitions, analogies, and direct references to the text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.9. Use graphics, such as graphs, charts, and diagrams, to enhance the communication of information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.10. Cite sources in footnotes and bibliography, using correct form, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.11. Write accurate and complete responses to questions about informational material
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.12. Maintain a portfolio that includes informational writing
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.2. Writing: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.1. Write original literary texts to develop a narrative, using an organizational plan such as chronology
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.2. Write original literary texts to sequence events (e.g., rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution) to advance a plot, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.3. Write original literary texts to develop complex characters and create a setting
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.4. Write original literary texts to use literary devices
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.5. Write original literary texts to maintain a consistent point of view that enhances the message
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.6. Write original literary texts to select a genre and use appropriate conventions, such as dialogue, rhythm, and rhyme, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.7. Write original literary texts to use language that is creative
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.8. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to express opinions and support them through specific references to the text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.9. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to demonstrate understanding of plot and theme
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.10. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to identify and describe characters and their motivations
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.11. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to analyze the impact of the setting
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.12. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to explain how the use of literary devices, such as symbolism, metaphor and simile, personification, and flashback, affects meaning
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.13. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to draw conclusions and provide reasons for the conclusions
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.14. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to compare and contrast characters, setting, mood, and voice in more than one literary text or performance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.15. Write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three pages to make connections between literary text and personal experience or knowledge
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.16. Maintain a writing portfolio that includes imaginative, interpretive, and responsive writing
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.3. Writing: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.1. Present clear analysis, using examples, details, and reasons from text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.2. Present a hypothesis and predict possible outcomes
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.3. Select content and choose strategies for written presentation on the basis of audience, purpose, and content
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.4. Present a subject from more than one perspective by using various resources (e.g., news articles, nonfiction texts, personal experiences, and other school subjects)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.5. Explain connections between and among texts to extend the meaning of each individual text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.6. Compare and contrast literary elements in more than one genre and/or by more than one author
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.7. Maintain a writing portfolio that includes writing for critical analysis and evaluation
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.4. Writing: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.1. Share the process of writing with peers and adults; for example, write a condolence note, get well-card, or thank-you letter with a writing partner or in small groups
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.2. Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the recipient
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.3. Develop a personal voice that enables the reader to get to know the writer
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.4. Write personal reactions about experiences, events, and observations, using a form of social communication
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.5. Identify the social communication techniques of published writers
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.6. Maintain a portfolio that includes writing for social communication
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.7. Use the conventions of email
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.1. Listening: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.1. Identify essential information for note taking
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.2. Listen in planning or brainstorming sessions with peers
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.3. Listen to and follow multistep directions that provide information about a task or assignment
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.4. Recall significant ideas and details, and describe the relationships between and among them
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.5. Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant oral information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.6. Make, confirm, or revise predictions by distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant oral information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.7. Draw conclusions and make inferences on the basis of explicit information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.8. Recognize that the speaker's voice quality and delivery impact communication, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.2. Listening: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.1. Interpret and respond to texts on a variety of themes from different genres and authors
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.2. Listen to class lectures, and small group and classroom discussions, to comprehend and interpret literary text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.3. Recognize different levels of meaning in presentations
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.4. Identify how the author's choice of words/characterization and use of other literary devices affect the listener's interpretation of the oral text, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.5. Identify how the poet's use of repetition, rhythm, and rhyming patterns affects the listener's interpretation of poetry, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.6. Recognize that the meaning of the spoken word can vary on the basis of tone, volume, pitch, and rate
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.7. Recognize how the posture, facial expression, and gestures of the speaker or actor are used to evoke a response
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.8. Identify questions of personal importance and interest and seek to address them by listening to and interpreting films, plays, and dramatic readings
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.9. Recognize social, historical, and cultural features in presentations of literary texts, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.3. Listening: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.1. Form an opinion or judgment about the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, opinions, themes, and experiences
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.2. Recognize multiple levels of meaning
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.3. Use personal experiences and knowledge, and the opinions of speakers in school and community settings, to make judgments from a variety of perspectives
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.4. Recognize persuasive techniques, such as emotional and ethical appeals, in presentations
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.5. Consider the experience and qualifications of speakers when analyzing and evaluating presentations, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.6. Identify missing or unclear information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.7. Evaluate the organization of presentations
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.8. Evaluate the quality of the speaker's presentation style by using criteria such as voice quality and enunciation
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.4. Listening: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.1. Participate as a listener in social conversation with one or more people who are friends or acquaintances
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.2. Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the speaker
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.3. Listen for more than one level of meaning
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.4. Withhold judgment
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.5. Appreciate the speaker's uniqueness
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.1. Speaking: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.1. Prepare and give presentations on informational topics
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.2. Contribute to group discussions by offering comments to clarify ideas and information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.3. Present information to address audience needs
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.4. Present examples, definitions, and direct references to the text in support of ideas
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.5. Connect, compare, and contrast ideas and information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.6. Use the conventions of the presentational format for panel discussions and mock trials
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.7. Ask questions to clarify information
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.2. Speaking: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.1. Present interpretations and support them through specific references to the text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.2. Explain social, historical, and cultural features of literary text
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.3. Present original literary texts, using language and text structures that are inventive; for example, use conventions of the literary genre, such as story, poem, and play
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.4. Present original literary texts, using language and text structures that are inventive; for example, use an introduction that catches and excites the interest of the listener
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.5. Ask and respond to questions to clarify an interpretation or response to literary texts and performances
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.3. Speaking: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.1. Express opinions or judgments about information, ideas, opinions, themes, and experiences
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.2. Use an organizational format (e.g., question/answer, compare/contrast, and cause/effect) so that ideas and information are clear
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.3. State a hypothesis and predict possible outcomes
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.4. Present content, using strategies designed for the audience and purpose
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.5. Present a subject from one or more perspectives
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.6. Credit sources of information and opinions accurately in presentations and handouts, with assistance
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3.7. Ask and respond to questions to clarify an opinion or judgment
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NY.4. Speaking: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.1. Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the listener
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.2. Provide feedback by asking questions
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.3. Use courtesy; for example, avoid sarcasm, ridicule, dominating the conversation, and interrupting
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.4. Use culture-specific language, jargon, and colloquialisms appropriate to the purpose and the listener
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4.5. Adopt conventions of email to establish friendly tone in electronic-based social communication