ELA.7.R.4

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ELA.7.R.4

Priority

Students comprehend and interpret texts using a variety of strategies.

  1. a.Preview the text while reflecting on their purposes for reading.
  2. b.Visualize, imagine, and/or otherwise engage the senses to make meaning of the text.
  3. c.Make inferences and predictions, checking them against textual evidence.
  4. d.Maintain motivation and reconnect to the flow of reading using a variety of strategies.
  5. e.Explain how choices about text/visual features advance the author's purpose and fit within the genre, medium, or platform.
  6. f.Describe literary techniques and their effects.
  7. g.Describe what they understand from the topic or story, including how information, ideas, or elements of a story interact and/or change.
  8. h.Explain how the author's use of language shapes meaning and affects reader understanding.
  9. i.Analyze how authors use text structure to guide readers' understanding and shape meaning.

Common Core: RL.7.1 RL.7.3 RL.7.5 RL.7.6 RL.7.10 RI.7.1 RI.7.4 RI.7.10 SL.7.2

ResourcesWIDAOSPI

WIDA language connections1

Narrate · Interpretivelistening, reading and viewing

ELD-LA.6-8.Narrate.Interpretive · Language for Language Arts, Grades 6-8

Interpret language arts narratives by…

  • Identifying a theme or central idea that develops over the course of a text
  • Analyzing how character attributes and actions develop in relation to events or dialogue
  • Evaluating impact of specific word choices about meaning and tone

OSPI's example connections to the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. How to read these

From OSPI

Smarter Balanced interim assessment

  • Make and Support Inferences (Literary)
    • Reading (Literary) Target 1, items 2, 5, 7, 10
    • Reading (Literary) Target 4, items 4, 6, 9
  • Text Analysis (Literary)
    • Reading (Literary) Target 5, items 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10
    • Reading (Literary) Target 6, items 2, 3, 7, 9, 11
  • Make and Support Inferences (Informational)
    • Reading (Informational) Target 8, items 1, 3, 10
    • Reading (Informational) Target 11, items 6, 7
  • Text Analysis (Informational)
    • Reading (Informational) Target 12, items 2, 4, 5, 7, 10
    • Reading (Informational) Target 13, items 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11

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