English Language Arts, Grade 7
Prince Edward Island · Grade 7 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
3Units
10Lessons
40Skills
Unit 1: Speaking and Listening
Grade 7 speaking and listening: exploring and clarifying ideas through talk, communicating effectively for purpose and audience, and interacting with sensitivity and respect (GCOs 1-3).
Exploring, extending, and clarifying through talk
- Contributing to keep discussions going
- Asking and answering questions that dig deeper
- Expressing and supporting a point of view
- Listening for key points and evidence
Communicating information and ideas effectively
- Using strategies for effective group talk
- Adapting your talk to purpose and audience
- Giving, following, and responding to instructions
- Evaluating the effectiveness of talk
Interacting with sensitivity and respect
- Practising active speaking and listening
- Expressing opinions with respect for others
- Seeing how language influences and manipulates
- Matching talk to the situation and culture
Unit 2: Reading and Viewing
Grade 7 reading and viewing: selecting and reading a range of texts, interpreting and combining information, and responding personally and critically (GCOs 4-7).
Selecting, reading, and viewing a range of texts
- Choosing texts for your needs and interests
- Reading widely across genres and places
- Reading how authors use text features and design
- Using cueing systems and reading strategies
- Talking about your own reading processes
Interpreting, selecting, and combining information
- Identifying and accessing what you need
- Using a range of print and non-print sources
- Using research strategies to guide inquiry
Responding personally to texts
- Extending your personal responses to texts
- Making evaluations and stating viewpoints
- Finding evidence in texts to support views
Responding critically to texts
- Recognizing bias in print and media texts
- Seeing how texts are built for readers and purposes
- Responding critically to a range of texts
Unit 3: Writing and Representing
Grade 7 writing and representing: writing to explore and reflect, creating texts for audiences and purposes, and using strategies for effective, precise writing (GCOs 8-10).
Using writing and representing to explore and reflect
- Using writing strategies to explore learning
- Reflecting on the strategies that help you learn
- Using note-making for different purposes
- Adding interesting effects to imaginative writing
Creating texts for a range of audiences and purposes
- Producing a range of writing forms
- Choosing a form that fits purpose and reader
- Representing ideas in more than one way
- Fitting content and style to the reader
- Using reader feedback to shape your drafts
Using strategies to develop effective writing
- Using prewriting-to-presentation strategies
- Using the conventions of written language
- Using technologies to communicate
- Committing to crafting your writing
- Combining information from several sources
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