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CC.1: English Language Arts
- Standard Area
  
  CC.1.4: Writing: Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content.
  - Grade Level
    
    CC.1.4.7: GRADE 7
    
    Standard
    
    CC.1.4.7.C: Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
    
    Assessment Anchor
    
    E07.C.1: Text Types and Purposes
    
    Anchor Descriptor
    
    E07.C.1.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.1.1: Introduce claim(s) for the intended audience, acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and support the writer’s purpose by logically organizing the reasons and evidence.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.1.1a: Identify both sides of an argument or claim.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.1.2: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.1.2a: Identify one piece of evidence to support each side of argument or claim.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.1.3: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
    
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    E07.C.1.1.4: Establish and maintain a formal style.
    
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    E07.C.1.1.5: Provide a concluding section that reinforces the claims and reasons presented.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.1.5a: Identify an ending statement.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Anchor Descriptor
    
    E07.C.1.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.1: Introduce a topic for the intended audience and preview what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, compare/contrast, and cause/effect to support the writer’s purpose.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.1a: Use a strategy such as definition or compare/contrast to introduce a topic.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.2: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.2a: Generate on-topic supporting details.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
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    E07.C.1.2.3: Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.4: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.4a: Identify vocabulary specific to a topic.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.5: Establish and maintain a formal style.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.6: Provide a concluding section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.2.6a: Identify an ending statement.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Anchor Descriptor
    
    E07.C.1.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.3.1: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically to support the writer’s purpose.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.3.1a: Select a topic for a narrative about at least two characters.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.3.2: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.3.2a: Convey at least three events in the story.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
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    E07.C.1.3.3: Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and to signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
    
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    E07.C.1.3.4: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.3.5: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
    
    Alternate Eligible Content
    
    E07.C.1.3.5a: Provide the conclusion.
    Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
    
    Assessment Anchor
    
    E07.E.1: Evidence-Based Analysis of Text
    
    Anchor Descriptor
    
    E07.E.1.1: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and/or research.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.E.1.1.1: Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.E.1.1.2: Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.E.1.1.3: Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.E.1.1.4: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.E.1.1.5: Establish and maintain a formal style.
    
    Eligible Content
    
    E07.E.1.1.6: Provide a concluding section that follows from and supports the analysis presented.