English Language Arts, Grade 7
New Brunswick · Grade 7 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Speaking and Listening
GCOs 1-3 (woven): speaking and listening to explore, clarify, and reflect; communicating information effectively and responding personally and critically; and interacting with sensitivity and respect.
- Sustaining discussion through many contributors
- Asking questions that call for elaboration and clarification
- Expressing a point of view clearly and with conviction
- Listening to grasp essential elements and supporting details
- Participating with strategies for effective talk
- Adapting communication choices to purpose and audience
- Following instructions and responding to questions and directions
- Evaluating speakers and identifying verbal and non-verbal cues
- Demonstrating active speaking and listening skills
- Expressing opinions with sensitivity to others
- Recognizing how spoken language reveals values and influences
- Matching speaking conventions to different situations
Unit 2: Reading and Viewing
GCOs 4-7 (woven): selecting, reading, and viewing a range of texts; interpreting, selecting, and combining information; responding personally; and responding critically applying understanding of language, form, and genre.
- Selecting texts for learning needs and special interests
- Reading widely across young adult fiction and literature
- Using authors' pictorial and organizational devices
- Developing independence in reading strategies and cueing systems
- Talking and writing about reading processes and strategies
- Articulating personal and learning needs with independence
- Using a range of print and non-print information sources
- Using research strategies to guide inquiry
- Extending personal responses with detailed reactions
- Making evaluations and expressing points of view
- Finding evidence to support personal views
- Recognizing bias and structure in print and media texts
- Recognizing that texts are constructed for readers and purposes
- Responding critically to the form, structure, and content of texts
Unit 3: Writing and Representing
GCOs 8-10 (woven): using writing and representing to explore, clarify, and reflect; creating texts collaboratively and independently for a range of audiences and purposes; and using a range of strategies and conventions to develop effective writing and representing.
- Experimenting with strategies to explore learning
- Describing writing strategies and personal growth
- Understanding purposeful note-making in many forms
- Integrating interesting effects in imaginative writing
- Producing a range of writing forms
- Recognizing how purpose and reader influence choice of form
- Experimenting with other forms of representing ideas
- Fitting content, style, and tone to reader and purpose
- Using reader feedback to shape drafts
- Using spelling, punctuation, and grammar conventions
- Beginning to use specific writing process strategies
- Using various communication technologies
- Committing to crafting pieces of writing
- Collecting and combining information from several sources
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