Grade 7 — Reading Comprehension
ELA Common Core Aligned
Grade 7 — Reading Comprehension
Grade 7 Reading Comprehension develops analytical skills in arguing from evidence, comparing accounts, analysing complex characters, and evaluating reasoning — aligned to the ELA Common Core State Standards.
Units & Topics Covered
4 units · 22 topics
Literary Text Comprehension
- Trace the development of theme across a longer text
- Analyse complex characters: their motivations, internal conflicts, and development
- Analyse the effects of rhyme, repetition, and line breaks in poetry
- Compare an original fictional portrayal to a historical account of the same event
- Distinguish what a text says explicitly from what is inferred
- Analyse how dramatic irony or foreshadowing creates tension
Informational Text Comprehension
- Analyse an argument: identify the claim, evidence, and counterclaim
- Evaluate whether the evidence is relevant, sufficient, and credible
- Analyse how two or more central ideas in a text interact
- Compare two authors' perspectives on the same topic
- Identify false reasoning, circular arguments, and unsupported claims
- Trace and evaluate the logic of an argument step by step
Vocabulary & Language
- Apply context clue strategies in complex academic and literary texts
- Advanced figurative language: allegory, irony, paradox, and allusion
- Analyse how connotation and denotation shape persuasive texts
- Morphology: analysing prefixes, roots, and suffixes in unfamiliar words
- Academic vocabulary for literary analysis: theme, perspective, tone, inference
Analytical Reading Skills
- Close reading strategies for challenging texts
- Annotating for central ideas, evidence, and author's purpose
- Writing analytical responses grounded in text evidence
- Building arguments from evidence across multiple texts
- Reading across genres: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama
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