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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