Grade 07 ELA - EC: E07.B-C.2.1.1
Grade 07 ELA - EC: E07.B-C.2.1.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
7th Grade
Course, Subject
English Language Arts
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- An author writes for one of three purposes: to inform, to persuade, or to entertain. Identify the author’s purpose in writing this text.
- What details did the author include that make you understand whether he/she was trying to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader?
- Organize the details the author uses in the text from most important to least important information.
- Infer the author’s credibility in writing this article. Does he or she have any special knowledge that makes him/her believable?
- Using the information presented in the text, hypothesize how the author would feel about the situation in the present day (or how the author might feel about a new problem in our world that is along similar lines as the information presented in the text)?
- In the case of a persuasive informational text, does the author use sound reasoning to build his/her argument? Provide textual evidence that supports your answer.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Students will be able to identify the purpose of the text (inform, persuade, entertain).
- Students will be able to cite textual evidence in support of their answer for the question on author’s purpose (inform, persuade, entertain).
- Students will be able to list key ideas in the text and arrange that information in order of most important to least important. Students will be able to recognize key information and will also be able to discern importance of the information in relation to the text.
- Students will infer the author’s credibility or level of expertise based on information provided in the text. The information can be provided in the text itself or in the “about the author” information provided with most informational texts.
- Students will be able to hypothesize how the author would react to the problem presented in the text in modern day or would be able to speak to how the author might react to a similar problem today. Students will demonstrate a firm understanding of the text and will be able to extend their thinking to solve hypothetical problems in our world today.
- Students will discuss whether the author used sound reasoning in developing an argument in a persuasive text. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the phrase, “sound reasoning,” and will be able to cite specific relevant, accurate textual evidence that supports their answer.
