New Jersey State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 7

NJ.3.1. Reading: All students will understand and apply the knowledge of sounds, letters, and words in written English to become independent and fluent readers, and will read a variety of materials and texts with fluency and comprehension.

3.1.A.1. Concepts About Print/Text: Identify and use common textual features (e.g., paragraphs, topic, sentence, index, glossary, table of contents) and graphic features, (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams) to comprehend information. 10
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3.1.A.2. Concepts About Print/Text: Develop an understanding of the organizational structure of printed material (e.g. chronological, sequential, procedural text). 10
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3.1.C.1. Decoding and Word Recognition: Distinguish among the spellings of homophones (e.g. cite, site, sight). 5
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3.1.C.2. Decoding and Word Recognition: Apply spelling rules and syllabication that aid in correct spelling. 18
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3.1.C.3. Decoding and Word Recognition: Continue to use structural analysis and context analysis to decode new words. 10
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3.1.D.1. Fluency: Read aloud in selected texts reflecting understanding of the text and engaging the listener. 18
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3.1.D.2. Fluency: Read increasingly difficult texts silently with comprehension and fluency. 18
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3.1.E.2. Reading Strategies: Use increasingly complex text guides to understand different text structure and organizational patterns (e.g. chronological sequence or comparison and contrast). 18
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3.1.F.1. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Develop an extended vocabulary through both listening and independent reading. 9
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3.1.F.2. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Clarify word meanings through the use of a word's definition, example, restatement, or contrast. 9
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3.1.F.3. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Clarify pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choice, parts of speech, and etymology of words using the dictionary, thesaurus, glossary, and technology resources. 14
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3.1.F.4. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Expand reading vocabulary by identifying and correctly using idioms and words with literal and figurative meanings in their speaking and writing experiences. 17
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3.1.G.1. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Speculate about text by generating literal and inferential questions. 18
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3.1.G.2. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Distinguish between essential and nonessential information. 10
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3.1.G.3. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Differentiate between fact, opinion, bias, and propaganda in newspapers, periodicals, and electronic texts. 7
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3.1.G.4. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Articulate the purposes and characteristics of different genres. 1
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3.1.G.5. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Analyze ideas and recurring themes found in texts, such as bravery, loyalty, friendship, and loneliness. 10
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3.1.G.6. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Develop an awareness of a variety of perspectives on a single event, setting, character, personality, or topic as expressed by different authors. 22
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3.1.G.7. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Locate and analyze the elements of setting, characterization, and plot to construct understanding of how characters influence the progression and resolution of the plot. 19
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3.1.G.8. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the purpose, structure, and elements of nonfiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding. 10
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3.1.G.9. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the theme, structure, style, and literary elements of fiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding. 14
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3.1.G.10. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Respond critically to text ideas and the author's craft by using textual evidence to support interpretations. 255
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3.1.G.11. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Identify and analyze literary techniques and elements, such as figurative language, meter, rhetorical and stylistic features of text. 17
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3.1.G.12. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Identify and analyze recurring themes across literary works. 11
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3.1.G.13. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Identify and understand the author's use of idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry. 10
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3.1.G.14. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Compare and contrast the perspectives of authors in a variety of interdisciplinary works. 255
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3.1.G.15. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Interpret text ideas through journal writing, discussion, and enactment. 1
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3.1.G.17. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text: Interpret idiomatic expressions. 6
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3.1.H.1. Inquiry and Research: Produce written and oral work that demonstrates comprehension of informational materials. 7
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3.1.H.2. Inquiry and Research: Analyze a work of literature, showing how it reflects the heritage, traditions, attitudes, and beliefs of its authors. 255
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3.1.H.4. Inquiry and Research: Self-select materials appropriately related to a research project. 3
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3.1.H.5. Inquiry and Research: Read and compare at least two works, including books, related to the same genre, topic, or subject and produce evidence of reading (e.g., compare central ideas, characters, themes, plots, settings). 23
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NJ.3.2. Writing: All students will write in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.

3.2.A.1. Writing as a Process: Write stories or scripts with well-developed characters, setting, dialogue, clear conflict and resolution, and sufficient descriptive detail. 6
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3.2.A.2. Writing as a Process: Write multi-paragraph compositions that have clear topic development, logical organization, effective use of detail, and variety in sentence structure. 6
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3.2.A.3. Writing as a Process: Generate and narrow topics by considering purpose, audience, and form with a variety of strategies (e.g., graphic organizers, brainstorming, or technology-assisted processes). 6
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3.2.A.4. Writing as a Process: Revise and edit drafts by rereading for content and organization, usage, sentence construction, mechanics, and word choice. 6
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3.2.A.6. Writing as a Process: Compose, revise, edit, and publish writing using appropriate word processing software. 1
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3.2.A.7. Writing as a Process: Reflect on own writing, noting strengths and setting goals for improvement. 6
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3.2.B.1. Writing as a Product: Extend knowledge of specific characteristics, structures, and appropriate voice and tone of selected genres and use this knowledge in creating written work, considering the purpose, audience, and context of the writing. 6
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3.2.B.2. Writing as a Product: Write various types of prose, such as short stories, biographies, autobiographies, or memoirs that contain narrative elements. 15
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3.2.B.3. Writing as a Product: Write reports and subject-appropriate nonfiction pieces across the curriculum based on research and including citations, quotations, and a works consulted page. 6
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3.2.B.4. Writing as a Product: Write a range of essays, including persuasive, speculative (picture prompt), descriptive, personal, or issue-based. 8
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3.2.C.1. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting: Use Standard English conventions in all writing, such as sentence structure, grammar and usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. 4
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3.2.C.2. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting: Use a variety of sentence types correctly, including combinations of independent and dependent clauses, prepositional and adverbial phrases, and varied sentence openings to develop a lively and effective personal style. 8
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3.2.C.3. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting: Understand and use parallelism, including similar grammatical forms, to present items in a series or to organize ideas for emphasis. 4
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3.2.C.4. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting: Experiment in using subordination, coordination, apposition, and other devices to indicate relationships between ideas. 4
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3.2.C.5. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting: Use transition words to reinforce a logical progression of ideas. 4
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3.2.C.6. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting: Edit writing for correct grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. 4
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3.2.C.7. Mechanics, Spelling, and Handwriting: Use a variety of reference materials, such as a dictionary, thesaurus, grammar reference, and/or internet/software resources to edit written work. 18
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3.2.D.1. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Gather, select, and organize information appropriate to a topic, task, and audience. 6
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3.2.D.2. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Apply knowledge and strategies for composing pieces in a variety of genres (e.g., narrative, expository, persuasive, poetic, and everyday/ workplace or technical writing). 13
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3.2.D.3. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Write responses to literature and develop insights into interpretations by connecting to personal experiences and referring to textual information. 255
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3.2.D.4. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Write personal narratives, short stories, memoirs, poetry and persuasive and expository text that relate clear, coherent events or situations through the use of specific details. 12
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3.2.D.5. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Use narrative and descriptive writing techniques that show compositional risks (e.g., dialogue, literary devices, sensory words and phrases, background information, thoughts and feelings of characters, and comparison and contrast of characters). 6
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3.2.D.6. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Use primary and secondary sources to understand the value of each when writing a research report. 6
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3.2.D.7. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Write reports based on research and include citations, quotations, and works consulted page. 6
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3.2.D.8. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Explore the central idea or theme of an informational reading and support analysis with details from the article and personal experiences. 10
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3.2.D.9. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Demonstrate writing clarity and supportive evidence when answering open-ended and essay questions across the curriculum. 6
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3.2.D.10. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: State a position clearly in a persuasive essay by stating the issue, giving facts, examples, and details to support the position, and citing sources when appropriate. 8
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3.2.D.11. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Present evidence when writing persuasive essays, examples, and justification to support arguments. 8
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3.2.D.12. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Choose an appropriate organizing strategy, such as cause/effect, pro and con, or parody to effectively present a topic, point of view, or argument. 6
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3.2.D.13. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes: Develop the use of a personal style and voice effectively to support the purpose and engage the audience of a piece of writing. 12
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NJ.3.3. Speaking: All students will speak in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.

3.3.A.1. Discussion: Support a position, acknowledging opposing views. 6
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3.3.A.3. Discussion: Apply rules for cooperative or whole class debate on a controversial issue. 3
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3.3.A.4. Discussion: Define group roles using consensus to ensure task is understood and completed. 8
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3.3.A.5. Discussion: Participate in an informal debate (e.g., small group discussion). 6
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3.3.A.6. Discussion: Respond orally to literature. 255
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3.3.C.1. Word Choice: Paraphrase, illustrate, clarify, and/or expand on a topic or idea. 6
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3.3.C.2. Word Choice: Develop and use advanced vocabulary related to a topic. 8
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3.3.C.3. Word Choice: Use language that stimulates an audience's interest. 6
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3.3.C.4. Word Choice: Incorporate varied sentence structure and correct grammar. 9
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3.3.D.1. Oral Presentation: Use writing to prompt discussion and enhance planning of formal and informal presentations. 6
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3.3.D.2. Oral Presentation: Use visual aids, media, and/or technology to support oral communication. 3
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3.3.D.3. Oral Presentation: Give oral presentations to different audiences for various purposes, such as summaries of books and articles, narratives, and persuasive topics. 3
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3.3.D.4. Oral Presentation: Acknowledge the audience with eye contact and use appropriate verbal responses to clarify questions and inquiries. 3
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3.3.D.6. Oral Presentation: Develop speaking techniques, including voice modulation, inflection, tempo, enunciation, and eye contact for effective presentations. 3
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3.3.D.8. Oral Presentation: Read aloud with fluency. 3
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NJ.3.4. Listening: All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.

3.4.A.2. Active Listening: Demonstrate active listening by analyzing information, ideas, and opinions to determine relevancy. 255
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3.4.A.3. Active Listening: Acknowledge the speaker through eye contact and use appropriate feedback and questions to clarify the speaker's message. 6
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3.4.A.4. Active Listening: Recognize persuasive techniques and credibility in oral communication. 5
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3.4.A.5. Active Listening: Listen to determine a speaker's purpose, attitude, and perspective. 6
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3.4.B.1. Listening Comprehension: Interpret a speaker's verbal and nonverbal messages, purposes, and perspectives. 6
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3.4.B.2. Listening Comprehension: Exhibit proficiency in integrating oral reading with listening, writing, and viewing. 23
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3.4.B.5. Listening Comprehension: Ask probing questions to elicit information, including evidence to support the speaker's claims and conclusions. 11
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NJ.3.5. Viewing and Media Literacy: All students will access, view, evaluate, and respond to print, non print, and electronic texts and resources.

3.5.A.1. Constructing Meaning: Analyze aspects of print and electronic texts that support the author's point of view, opinion, or attitude. 8
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3.5.A.2. Constructing Meaning: Analyze the use of elements (e.g., setting plot, theme, characters) to understand media presentations, such as film, video, television, and theatrical productions. 18
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3.5.A.3. Constructing Meaning: Analyze and respond to visual and print messages (e.g., humor, irony, metaphor) and recognize how words, sounds, and still or moving images are used in each medium to convey the intended messages. 2
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3.5.A.4. Constructing Meaning: Compare and contrast how the various forms of media (e.g. newspapers, radio, television, internet news outlets) cover the same topic. 11
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3.5.B.1. Visual and Verbal Messages: Analyze and compare the pros and cons of visual and verbal advertising. 2
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3.5.B.2. Visual and Verbal Messages: Evaluate various media messages for credibility. 11
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3.5.B.5. Visual and Verbal Messages: Compare and contrast media sources, such as film and book versions of a story. 18
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3.5.C.1. Living with Media: Evaluate media forms, such as television, video, games, music, and film for content appropriateness (e.g. rating systems, rubric). 11
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3.5.C.2. Living with Media: Analyze media content for emotional effect on audience. 11
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3.5.C.3. Living with Media: Create media presentations and written reports, using multi-media resources such as an overhead projector, computer, and/or a tape recorder to communicate information. 4
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