English Language Arts 7

Unit 1: Reading and Comprehension

Understanding texts — summarizing main ideas from more than one source, using visual and textual cues, drawing on personal experience, and clarifying your thinking with others.

• Summarizing main ideas
• Using visual and textual cues
• Using prior experience to understand

• Clarifying and assessing your ideas

Unit 2: Responding to and Analyzing Texts

Reading closely — comparing characters’ choices and behaviours, noticing techniques like foreshadowing and flashback, identifying forms and genres, connecting plot and theme, and recognizing recurring themes across cultures.

• Comparing character choices and behaviours
• Techniques like suspense and foreshadowing

• Forms and genres
• Connecting plot, character and theme

• Recurring themes across cultures

Unit 3: Creating Texts

Writing your own texts — choosing strategies to generate ideas and focus a topic, and structuring a story unified by point of view with a developed plot.

• Generating and focusing ideas
• Structuring with point of view and plot

Unit 4: Research and Information

Handling information like a researcher — focusing a topic by audience and purpose, judging sources against criteria, organizing into categories, and making notes that reference sources.

• Focusing a topic for audience and purpose
• Evaluating sources against criteria

• Organizing into categories
• Making notes and referencing sources

Unit 5: Writing Craft and Conventions

Polishing writing — revising for coherence, telling standard English from slang, and applying grammar, spelling, and punctuation conventions.

• Revising for coherence
• Standard English vs. slang

• Subordinate clauses and agreement
• Punctuating direct speech
• Solving spelling problems