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Colorado Standards

Colorado 7th Grade ELA Standards

All 10 Colorado English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Colorado Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

10 standards

Oral Expression and Listening

2 standards
RW.7.1.1
Come to discussions with research done, track group goals, ask questions that draw out detail, change your view when new evidence warrants, and judge how sound a speaker's reasoning is.
RW.7.1.2
Give focused talks that stress key points with strong evidence, eye contact and clear delivery, add media that clarify claims, and use formal English when the moment calls for it.

Reading for All Purposes

3 standards
RW.7.2.1
Analyze fiction, drama and poetry using several pieces of evidence: trace a theme, show how setting shapes characters, contrast viewpoints, and compare a story with its film or stage version.
RW.7.2.2
Summarize and judge nonfiction: trace two or more central ideas, analyze structure and how authors set apart their view, test whether claims hold up, and compare authors on one topic.
RW.7.2.3
Work out words in harder texts with context, roots and specialized dictionaries, interpret allusions to myths and the Bible, use analogies, and weigh word shades like refined versus fussy.

Writing and Composition

4 standards
RW.7.3.1
Write a formal argument that states a claim, admits opposing views, backs the claim with logical reasoning and credible evidence, ties ideas together, and closes in support of it.
RW.7.3.2
Write a formal explanation that previews the topic, organizes it with structures like cause and effect, adds facts, quotations and visuals, links ideas smoothly, and ends with a fitting conclusion.
RW.7.3.3
Write a real or imagined story with a clear point of view, dialogue, pacing and vivid sensory detail, transitions across time and place, and an ending that reflects on events.
RW.7.3.4
Plan, draft and revise clear writing, explain phrases and clauses, choose sentence types to show how ideas relate, fix misplaced modifiers, and cut wordy language.

Research Inquiry and Design

1 standard
RW.7.4.1
Research a question in several sources with smart search terms, judge source credibility, quote or paraphrase without plagiarizing, cite properly, and present conclusions.

The official Colorado documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Colorado's standards, not the official wording, which Colorado Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.