ELA.7.W.3

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ELA.7.W.3

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Students draft content within the genre and purpose, using technology appropriately.

  1. a.Generate ideas for topics, genres, and material.
  2. b.Select and organize ideas and material, including findings from research and/or multimedia artifacts, identifying when and how it's fair to use the creative work of others.
  3. c.Follow, adapt, or combine genre-specific text elements to achieve specific purposes and effects.
  4. d.Develop descriptions with concrete and/or abstract details to help the audience imagine and empathize with the content and to activate the senses.
  5. e.Develop analysis of experience, events, information, ideas, and/or texts.
  6. f.Support analysis by selecting relevant evidence from texts, paraphrasing, summarizing, and/or selecting quotations.
  7. g.Support claims with relevant and credible evidence connected by sound and valid reasoning.
  8. h.Use persuasive techniques, including arguments, evaluations, and appeals to emotion and reason.
  9. i.Use a variety of narrative techniques and devices consistent with the genre.
  10. j.Attribute sources in ways consistent with the genre, using technology appropriately.

Common Core: RI.7.2 W.7.1 W.7.1a W.7.1b W.7.1c W.7.2 W.7.2a W.7.2b W.7.2d W.7.3 W.7.3a W.7.3b W.7.3c W.7.3d W.7.8

ResourcesWIDAOSPI

WIDA language connections1

Argue · Expressivespeaking, writing and representing

ELD-LA.6-8.Argue.Expressive · Language for Language Arts, Grades 6-8

Construct language arts arguments that…

  • Introduce and develop claim(s) and acknowledge counterclaim(s)
  • Support claims with reasons and evidence that are clear, relevant, and credible
  • Establish and maintain formal style
  • Logically organize claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence; offer a conclusion

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

From OSPI

Smarter Balanced interim assessment

  • Write and Revise Narratives
    • Writing Target 1a, item 8
  • Research: Analyze and Integrate Information
    • Research Target 2, items 1, 4, 8, 11
  • Performance Task (Explanatory): Mobile Ed Technology
    • Writing Target 4, item 4
  • Research: Use Evidence
    • Research Target 4, items 3, 5, 6, 7, 9
  • Write and Revise Argumentative Texts
    • Writing Target 6a, items 2, 5

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