IXL skill plan | ELA 7th grade plan for the Arkansas Teaching and Learning Assessment System

Skill plan for the Arkansas Teaching and Learning Assessment System - ELA 7th grade

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Reading Fundamentals & Vocabulary
Reading Literary Text
Reading Informational Text
Writing & Language

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Reading Fundamentals & Vocabulary
Reading Fundamentals		1. Draw inferences from literary texts 2. Determine the central idea of a passage 3. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Reading Fundamentals
1. Draw inferences from literary texts 2. Determine the central idea of a passage 3. Identify supporting details in literary texts

Vocabulary		Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Greek and Latin roots 5. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Shades of meaning 6. Positive and negative connotation Multiple-meaning words 7. Which definition matches the sentence? Figurative language 8. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 9. Interpret figures of speech 10. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Vocabulary
Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Greek and Latin roots 5. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Shades of meaning 6. Positive and negative connotation Multiple-meaning words 7. Which definition matches the sentence? Figurative language 8. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 9. Interpret figures of speech 10. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

Reading Literary Text
Reading Comprehension		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Anne of Green Gables: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Anne of Green Gables: Part 2 3. Analyze short stories Literary text structures 4. Read drama 5. Read poetry Theme 6. Determine the themes of short stories Compare texts 7. Compare two texts with different genres
Reading Comprehension
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Anne of Green Gables: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Anne of Green Gables: Part 2 3. Analyze short stories Literary text structures 4. Read drama 5. Read poetry Theme 6. Determine the themes of short stories Compare texts 7. Compare two texts with different genres

Reading Informational Text
Reading Comprehension		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from A Night to Remember: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from A Night to Remember: Part 2 3. Read about science and nature Informational text structures 4. Identify text structures Purpose and point of view 5. Identify the author's purpose 6. Determine the author's point of view Visual elements 7. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects Trace and evaluate an argument 8. Trace an argument 9. Classify logical fallacies Compare texts 10. Compare information from two texts
Reading Comprehension
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from A Night to Remember: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from A Night to Remember: Part 2 3. Read about science and nature Informational text structures 4. Identify text structures Purpose and point of view 5. Identify the author's purpose 6. Determine the author's point of view Visual elements 7. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects Trace and evaluate an argument 8. Trace an argument 9. Classify logical fallacies Compare texts 10. Compare information from two texts

Writing & Language
Argumentation
Purpose, Focus, and Organization		Organization 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions Counterclaims 3. Identify counterclaims Style and tone 4. Compare passages for tone
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
Organization 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions Counterclaims 3. Identify counterclaims Style and tone 4. Compare passages for tone

Evidence and Elaboration		1. Choose evidence to support a claim 2. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb 3. Create varied sentences based on models
Evidence and Elaboration
1. Choose evidence to support a claim 2. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb 3. Create varied sentences based on models
Informative/Explanatory
Purpose, Focus, and Organization		Organization 1. Organize information by topic 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs Introductions and conclusions 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 4. Choose the best concluding sentence Style and tone 5. Which sentence is more formal?
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
Organization 1. Organize information by topic 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs Introductions and conclusions 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 4. Choose the best concluding sentence Style and tone 5. Which sentence is more formal?

Evidence and Elaboration		1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Remove the sentence that does not belong 3. Identify plagiarism 4. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational 5. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Evidence and Elaboration
1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Remove the sentence that does not belong 3. Identify plagiarism 4. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational 5. Combine sentences using relative clauses

Revision		1. Suggest appropriate revisions
Revision
1. Suggest appropriate revisions
Narrative
Purpose, Focus, and Organization		1. Choose the best transition
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
1. Choose the best transition

Evidence and Elaboration		1. Identify sensory details 2. Use personification
Evidence and Elaboration
1. Identify sensory details 2. Use personification
Language – Editing Tasks: Structures and Conventions
Grammar		Verbs 1. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement Phrases and clauses 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 3. Are the modifiers used correctly? Write clearly and concisely 4. Remove redundant words or phrases
Grammar
Verbs 1. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement Phrases and clauses 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 3. Are the modifiers used correctly? Write clearly and concisely 4. Remove redundant words or phrases

Sentence Formation		1. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Sentence Formation
1. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

Capitalization		1. Correct capitalization errors
Capitalization
1. Correct capitalization errors

Punctuation		Semicolons and commas 1. Commas: review 2. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements 3. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 4. Use dashes Formatting 5. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Punctuation
Semicolons and commas 1. Commas: review 2. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements 3. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 4. Use dashes Formatting 5. Formatting quotations and dialogue

Spelling		1. Correct errors with frequently confused words 2. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
Spelling
1. Correct errors with frequently confused words 2. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives

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