Texas 7th Grade ELA Standards in Oral and Written Conventions

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7 Oral and Written Conventions

• 19 Students understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
  • A identify, use, and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
    • i verbs (perfect and progressive tenses) and participles;
    • ii appositive phrases;
    • iii adverbial and adjectival phrases and clauses;
    • iv conjunctive adverbs (e.g., consequently, furthermore, indeed);
    • v prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
    • vi relative pronouns (e.g., whose, that, which);
    • vii subordinating conjunctions (e.g., because, since); and
    • viii transitions for sentence to sentence or paragraph to paragraph coherence;
  • B write complex sentences and differentiate between main versus subordinate clauses; and
  • C use a variety of complete sentences (e.g., simple, compound, complex) that include properly placed modifiers, correctly identified antecedents, parallel structures, and consistent tenses.
• 20 Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions.
  • A use conventions of capitalization; and
  • B recognize and use punctuation marks including:
    • i commas after introductory words, phrases, and clauses; and
    • ii semicolons, colons, and hyphens.
• 21 Students spell correctly. Students are expected to spell correctly, including using various resources to determine and check correct spellings.