English Language Arts, Grade 7
Newfoundland and Labrador · Grade 7 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
3Units
10Lessons
36Skills
Unit 1: Speaking and Listening
Growing as a speaker and listener: contributing to and sustaining discussion, communicating effectively, and interacting with sensitivity, respect, and a critical ear.
Target 1: Explore, Extend, Clarify and Reflect
- Recognizing that discussion needs others' contributions
- Asking questions about others' ideas
- Responding to clarify and elaborate
- Expressing a point of view with support
- Listening for main ideas and supporting details
Target 2: Communicate and Respond
- Practising strategies for effective talk
- Assessing when to clarify or elaborate
- Identifying effective speaking strategies
Target 3: Interact with Sensitivity and Respect
- Demonstrating active speaking and listening
- Expressing ideas with sensitivity and respect
- Recognizing bias and attitudes in oral language
- Awareness that oral language can influence and manipulate
Unit 2: Reading and Viewing
Growing as a reader and viewer: selecting and reading a range of texts, inquiring across sources, and responding to texts both personally and critically.
Target 4: Select, Read and View a Range of Texts
- Selecting texts for needs and interests
- Exploring how text features create meaning
- Identifying reading and viewing strategies
Target 5: Inquiry
- Identifying topics and questions for inquiry
- Recognizing the need for reliable information
- Locating and selecting information
- Experimenting with inquiry strategies
Target 6: Respond Personally
- Explaining personal responses with support
Target 7: Respond Critically
- Recognizing that texts can be biased
- Recognizing the need to question a text
- Exploring the tools text creators use
- Describing how form and structure affect meaning
- Awareness that values influence critical response
Unit 3: Writing and Representing
Growing as a writer and representer: writing to explore and reflect, creating a range of texts for real purposes and audiences, and developing effective, well-crafted products.
Target 8: Write to Explore, Clarify, Reflect and Imagine
- Experimenting with strategies as a language learner
- Writing to extend, explore, and reflect on ideas
- Identifying strategies and describing growth
- Experimenting with stylistic effects
Target 9: Create Texts
- Creating a range of texts
- Experimenting with forms and styles for purpose and audience
- Using feedback to inform future work
Target 10: Develop Effective Writing Products
- Using strategies to create varied texts
- Using the conventions of written language
- Using technology to communicate
- Committing to the process of creating texts
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