ELA 7th Grade Informational Text

Description

• Analyze the cause-and-effect interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in an informational text (e.g., analyze how ideas influence an individual)

• Provide an objective summary of an informational text that includes central ideas, supporting details, and retains overall meaning

• Draw conclusions based on analysis of multiple details in an informational text

• Analyze how events, ideas, or individuals' actions influence subsequent events or ideas in an informational text (e.g., how Jefferson's Louisiana purchase influenced the development of the United States; how movement of tectonic plates leads to earthquakes)

• Explain the differences between words and phrases with similar denotative meanings that carry different connotations (e.g., sulk/brood; ally/comrade/best friend) in an informational text

• Analyze the tone of an informational text, explaining the impact of the author's word choice on the reader (e.g., a letter to the editor with a reasonable tone compared to one with an angry tone)

• Explain the author's purpose or intent and how the author fulfills that purpose in an informational text (e.g., language use, evidence)

• Describe instances in which an author's opinions, beliefs, or attitude bias the text

• Compare and contrast authors' purposes or positions in informational texts on similar topics

• Trace the development of an author's argument, and identify and evaluate supporting evidence for adequacy, accuracy, and appropriateness

• Describe instances in which an author's opinions, beliefs, or attitude bias the text

• Recognize instances in which the credibility of an argument is negatively affected (e.g., it contains misleading information or outdated information, fallacious reasoning, unsupported inferences, or bias)

• Analyze similarities and differences in emphasis and interpretation in informational texts on the same topic

• Read regularly and independently in seventh-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension

• Analyze and explain the characteristics and devices employed by types of informational texts including literary nonfiction (e.g., essay, biography) and argument to begin to establish an interpretive framework for understanding different works