Language Arts 7

Language Arts 8

Key Goals and Concepts

• Extend understanding of ideas and information by finding and exploring oral, print and other media texts on related topics and themes 

• Listen and respond constructively to alternative ideas or opinions 

• Apply, flexibly, knowledge of phonics, sight vocabulary, structural analysis, language and context clues, depending on the purpose and rate of reading 

• Identify and explain conflict, and discuss how it develops and may be resolved 

• Develop, clarify and defend own interpretation, based on evidence from the text with support from own experiences 

• Consider audience, purpose, point of view and form when focusing topics for investigation 

• Use appropriate visual, print and/or other media effectively to inform and engage the audience 

• Use correct subject–verb agreement in sentences with compound subjects 

Key Goals and Concepts 

• Revise understanding and expression of ideas by connecting new and prior knowledge and experiences 

• Acknowledge the value of the ideas and opinions of others in exploring and extending personal interpretations and perspectives 

• Choose and use strategies for word identification, vocabulary development and spelling that either build on specific strengths or address areas for improvement 

• Discuss various ways characters are developed and the reasons for and plausibility of character change 

• Compare two similar oral, print or other media texts by considering the characters, plot, conflicts and main ideas 

• Experiment with several ways to focus a topic, and select a form appropriate to audience and purpose 

• Integrate appropriate visual, print and/or other media to inform and engage the audience