Colorado 7th Grade ELA Standards in Reading for All Purposes

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RW.7.2 Reading for All Purposes

• RW.7.2.1 Analyze the connections between interrelated literary elements to understand literary texts.
  • RW.7.2.1.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.7.2.1.a.i Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.7.2.1.a.ii Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
    • RW.7.2.1.a.iii Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (for example: how setting shapes the characters or plot).
  • RW.7.2.1.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.7.2.1.b.i Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (for example: alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
    • RW.7.2.1.b.ii Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (for example: soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
    • RW.7.2.1.b.iii Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
  • RW.7.2.1.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.7.2.1.c.i Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (for example: lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
    • RW.7.2.1.c.ii Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
  • RW.7.2.1.d Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
    • RW.7.2.1.d.i By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• RW.7.2.2 Summarize and evaluate to show understanding of informational texts.
  • RW.7.2.2.a Use Key Ideas and Details to:
    • RW.7.2.2.a.i Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
    • RW.7.2.2.a.ii Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
    • RW.7.2.2.a.iii Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (for example: how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
  • RW.7.2.2.b Use Craft and Structure to:
    • RW.7.2.2.b.i Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
    • RW.7.2.2.b.ii Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
    • RW.7.2.2.b.iii Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
  • RW.7.2.2.c Use Integration of Knowledge and Ideas to:
    • RW.7.2.2.c.i Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (for example: how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words).
    • RW.7.2.2.c.ii Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
    • RW.7.2.2.c.iii Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
  • RW.7.2.2.d Use Range of Reading and Complexity of Text to:
    • RW.7.2.2.d.i By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• RW.7.2.3 Apply knowledge of word relationships, word structures, and sentence structures to determine the meaning of new words in increasingly complex texts.
  • RW.7.2.3.a Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
    • RW.7.2.3.a.i Use context (for example: the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
    • RW.7.2.3.a.ii Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (for example: belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
    • RW.7.2.3.a.iii Consult general and specialized reference materials (for example: dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
    • RW.7.2.3.a.iv Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (for example: by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
  • RW.7.2.3.b Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
    • RW.7.2.3.b.i Interpret figures of speech (for example: literary, biblical, and mythological allusions) in context.
    • RW.7.2.3.b.ii Use the relationship between particular words (for example: synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
    • RW.7.2.3.b.iii Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (for example: refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
  • RW.7.2.3.c Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.