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The official Saskatchewan English Language Arts, Grade 7 curriculum
Saskatchewan defines English Language Arts, Grade 7 by strands and outcomes. MapleMind teaches the same curriculum reorganized for one-skill-at-a-time tutoring — the table shows exactly where every official strand lands, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit below.
Official source Saskatchewan's official curriculumRead it on the government site — curriculum.gov.sk.ca ↗| Official strand | Outcomes | Where MapleMind teaches it |
|---|---|---|
| Strand CR | 8 | Comprehend and Respond |
| Strand CC | 9 | Compose and Create |
| Strand AR | 2 | Assess and Reflect |
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How MapleMind teaches English Language Arts, Grade 7 — every unit, lesson, and skill
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Unit 1Comprehend and RespondOfficial strand · Strand CR
Growing as a viewer, listener, and reader in Grade 7: responding to complex texts on identity, responsibility, and efficacy; using questioning and evidence-based strategies; and reading and listening critically across genres and cultures.
Responding Critically to Complex Texts
- Responding to think-for-yourself textsCR7.1 — View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity.
- Responding to giving-our-best textsCR7.1 — View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address social responsibility.
- Responding to doing-our-part textsCR7.1 — View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address efficacy — doing our part.
- Using questioning and evidence strategiesCR7.2 — Select and use strategies to construct meaning before, during, and after viewing, listening, and reading, including formulating questions, recognizing organizational structure, and making judgements supported by evidence.
- Using cueing systems in complex textsCR7.3 — Use pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and confirm meaning when viewing, listening, and reading.
- Viewing multimedia texts with complex ideasCR7.4 — View and understand visual and multimedia texts with specific features and complex ideas, including magazines, websites, graphic novels, broadcast media, videos, and promotional materials.
- Listening critically to analyzeCR7.5 — Listen critically to understand and analyze oral information and ideas from a wide range of texts, including complex instructions, explanations, reports, opinions, and media messages.
- Reading with critical response to content and craftCR7.6 — Read and understand, including thoughtful and critical response to content and craft, grade-appropriate prose fiction, poetry, and plays, including First Nations and Métis texts.
- Reading specialized information textsCR7.7 — Read independently and understand a variety of specialized information texts, including non-fiction, articles, reports, reference materials, instructions, advertising, and websites.
- Reading with fluency and expressionCR7.8 — Read Grade 7 appropriate texts to increase fluency (130-170 words correct per minute orally; 170-220 silently) and expression.
The official wording — 8 outcomes in this unit
- CR7.1
View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity (e.g., Thinking for Oneself)
- CR7.2
Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning before (e.g., formulating questions), during (e.g., recognizing organizational structure), and after (e.g., making judgements supported by evidence) viewing, listening, and reading.
- CR7.3
Use pragmatic (e.g., author’s purpose and point of view), textual (e.g., how author organized text), syntactic (e.g., main and subordinate ideas), semantic/lexical/morphological (e.g., figurative language and specific word meanings by their context, common affixes and allusions), graphophonic (e.g., word patterns), and other cues (e.g., non-verbal cues, headings, charts and diagrams) to construct and confirm meaning.
- CR7.4
View and demonstrate comprehension and interpretation of visual and multimedia texts with specific features (e.g., circle graphs) and complex ideas including the visual components of media such as magazines, newspapers, websites, reference books, graphic novels, broadcast media, videos, and promotional materials.
- CR7.5
Listen critically to understand and analyze oral information and ideas from a wide range of texts (e.g., complex instructions, oral explanations and reports, opinions or viewpoints, messages presented in the media).
- CR7.6
Read and demonstrate comprehension and interpretation (including thoughtful and critical response to content and craft) of grade-appropriate texts including traditional and contemporary prose fiction, poetry, and plays from First Nations, Métis, and other cultures.
- CR7.7
Read independently and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of specialized information texts including non-fiction books, grade-level instructional materials, articles, reports, reference materials, instructions, advertising and promotional materials, and websites.
- CR7.8
Read Grade 7 appropriate texts to increase fluency (130-170 wcpm orally; 170-220 silently) and expression.
Unit 2Compose and CreateOfficial strand · Strand CC
Growing as someone who represents, speaks, and writes in Grade 7: creating texts on identity, responsibility, and efficacy; carrying out an inquiry project; writing for varied purposes; and experimenting with forms and techniques.
Creating Texts and an Inquiry Project
- Creating exploring-thoughts textsCC7.1 — Create visual, oral, written, and multimedia texts that explore identity.
- Creating taking-action textsCC7.1 — Create visual, oral, written, and multimedia texts that explore social responsibility.
- Creating building-a-better-world textsCC7.1 — Create visual, oral, written, and multimedia texts that explore efficacy — building a better world.
- Creating and presenting an inquiry projectCC7.2 — Create and present a teacher-guided inquiry project related to a topic, theme, or issue studied in English language arts.
- Using strategies to communicate meaningCC7.3 — Select and use strategies to communicate meaning before, during, and after speaking, writing, and representing, such as planning to fit format, using transition words, and revising to cut repetition.
- Using cues to communicate meaningCC7.4 — Use pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and communicate meaning when creating.
- Creating multimedia representationsCC7.5 — Create and present visual and multimedia representations, such as displays, illustrations, and videos, enhanced with graphic organizers, charts, graphs, timelines, maps, and sound effects.
- Using oral language to interact purposefullyCC7.6 — Use oral language to interact purposefully and appropriately with others in pairs, small groups, and large groups, sustaining dialogue, supporting others, analyzing ideas, and building consensus.
- Using oral language to express complex ideasCC7.7 — Use oral language to express information and ideas of some complexity effectively in formal and informal situations, such as a procedural description, a demonstration, a persuasive speech, or a dramatization.
- Writing for varied purposesCC7.8 — Write to describe a person; to narrate an imaginary incident or story; to explain and inform in a news story, factual account, and business letter; and to persuade in a letter and interpretation.
- Experimenting with forms and techniquesCC7.9 — Experiment with a variety of text forms, such as a meeting, presentation, descriptive poem, opinion piece, review, newspaper front page, or short script, and techniques like dialogue and figurative language.
The official wording — 9 outcomes in this unit
- CC7.1
Create various visual, oral, written, and multimedia (including digital) texts that explore identity (e.g., Exploring Thoughts, Feelings, and Ideas)
- CC7.2
Create and present a teacher-guided inquiry project related to a topic, theme, or issue studied in English language arts.
- CC7.3
Select and use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning before (e.g., planning and organizing ideas to fit format), during (e.g. using transition words), and after (e.g., revising to eliminate unnecessary repetition) speaking, writing, and other representing activities.
- CC7.4
Use pragmatic (e.g., use language that demonstrates respect for others), textual (e.g., use common organizational patterns within texts), syntactical (e.g., ensure agreement of subjects, verbs and pronouns), semantic/lexical/morphological (e.g., avoid overused and misused words), graphophonic (e.g., enunciate clearly), and other cues (e.g., use appropriate gestures and facial expression) to construct and to communicate meaning.
- CC7.5
Create and present a variety of representations including visual and multimedia presentations such as displays, illustrations, and videos, and enhance communication with appropriate graphic organizers, charts, circle graphs, timelines, maps, and sound effects.
- CC7.6
Useorallanguageto interactpurposefullyand appropriatelywithothers inpairs,smallgroups,and largegroupsituations(e.g., contributingtosustaining dialogue,expressing supportforothersandtheir viewpoints,discussingand analyzingideasandopinions, completingavarietyoftasks, andcontributingtogroup consensusbuilding).
- CC7.7
Useorallanguageto expresseffectivelyinformation andideasofsomecomplexityin formalandinformalsituations (e.g.,aproceduraldescription basedonpersonalexperience, ademonstration,apersuasive speech,adramatization).
- CC7.8
Write to describe a person; to narrate an imaginary incident or story; to explain and inform in a news story, a factual account, and a business letter; to persuade in a letter and in interpretation of a text.
- CC7.9
Experiment with a variety of text forms (e.g., meeting, presentation to adults, descriptive poem, opinion piece, a review, front page of a newspaper, short script) and techniques (e.g., dialogue, figurative language).
Unit 3Assess and ReflectOfficial strand · Strand AR
Thinking about our own learning in Grade 7: setting short- and long-term goals to improve strategies, and appraising our own and others' work for clarity and correctness.
Setting Goals and Appraising Work
- Setting short- and long-term goalsAR7.1 — Set and achieve short-term and long-term goals to improve viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing strategies.
- Appraising work for clarity and correctnessAR7.2 — Appraise your own and others' work for clarity and correctness.
The official wording — 2 outcomes in this unit
- AR7.1
Set and achieve short-term and long-term goals to improve viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing strategies.
- AR7.2
Appraise own and others’ work for clarity and correctness.
Printable workbook · A keepsake of the year
A English Language Arts, Grade 7 workbook worth keeping
Built from the same official curriculum as this page. Before and after each skill above, your student colours in how sure they feel — so the two of you can see, on one page, what's clicking and what needs another look. It's a quiet way to follow how the year is really going.
By June it's full of their own handwriting: units worked through, confidence grown, a mid-year check-in, notes from parent-teacher night, and a certificate at the end. Less a worksheet, more a record of the year worth keeping on the shelf.
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Can MapleMind help me with English Language Arts, Grade 7?
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Is MapleMind aligned to Saskatchewan's official curriculum?
Yes. Every skill in this course maps to an official outcome code from Saskatchewan's Grade 7 English Language Arts curriculum, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit on this page — with the official government source linked so you can check it yourself.
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Does MapleMind work in French or other languages?
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Where can I see the official Saskatchewan curriculum for English Language Arts, Grade 7?
The official source is linked on this page — Saskatchewan's official curriculum. The outline here follows it: every MapleMind skill carries its official outcome code, and the ministry's own wording is quoted under each unit.
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