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Florida 7th Grade ELA B.E.S.T. Standards

All 24 Florida English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is one click away under each one.

24 standards

Reading

12 standards
Reading Prose and Poetry
ELA.7.R.1.1
Explain how a story's time and place shape its characters and plot, like a harsh frontier winter that forces a character to grow up fast.
Official wording
Analyze the impact of setting on character development and plot in a literary text.
ELA.7.R.1.2
Compare two or more messages in a story and track how each one grows from the beginning to the end.
Official wording
Compare two or more themes and their development throughout a literary text.
ELA.7.R.1.3
Explain how the narrator, including one readers cannot fully trust, or a change in point of view affects how a story is understood.
Official wording
Explain the influence of narrator(s), including unreliable narrator(s), and/or shifts in point of view in a literary text.
ELA.7.R.1.4
Analyze how the structure of a sonnet or a villanelle, like its rhyme pattern and repeated lines, shapes the poem's meaning and style.
Official wording
Analyze the impact of various poetic forms on meaning and style.
Reading Informational Text
ELA.7.R.2.1
Explain how a particular section or feature of a nonfiction text, like a sidebar or a timeline, helps the author achieve a purpose.
Official wording
Explain how individual text sections and/or features convey a purpose in texts.
ELA.7.R.2.2
Compare two or more main ideas in a nonfiction text and show how the author develops each one.
Official wording
Compare two or more central ideas and their development throughout a text.
ELA.7.R.2.3
Explain how an author's word choice and sentence structure work together to accomplish a goal, like short, punchy sentences that build urgency.
Official wording
Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through diction and syntax.
ELA.7.R.2.4
Follow how an argument unfolds, examining the kinds of reasoning the author uses and judging how well they work.
Official wording
Track the development of an argument, analyzing the types of reasoning used and their effectiveness.
Reading Across Genres
ELA.7.R.3.1
Analyze how figures of speech shape a text's tone and meaning, and explain references to famous works or events, like calling a lovesick friend a Romeo.
Official wording
Analyze how figurative language contributes to tone and meaning and explain examples of allusions in text(s).
ELA.7.R.3.2
Put the ideas of a seventh grade text into your own words, like retelling a science article's findings without borrowing its phrasing.
Official wording
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
ELA.7.R.3.3
Compare and contrast how authors who see an issue differently treat the same or a related topic or theme.
Official wording
Compare and contrast how authors with differing perspectives address the same or related topics or themes.
ELA.7.R.3.4
Explain what rhetorical devices, like irony or a rhetorical question, mean in a text and why the author chose them.
Official wording
Explain the meaning and/or significance of rhetorical devices in a text.

Communication

9 standards
Communicating Through Writing
ELA.7.C.1.2
Write true or invented stories using storytelling techniques, a narrator whose point of view is easy to recognize, exact wording and figures of speech.
Official wording
Write personal or fictional narratives using narrative techniques, a recognizable point of view, precise words and phrases, and figurative language.
ELA.7.C.1.3
Write an argument for a claim with sound reasons, source evidence and explanation, organized with varied transitions, and address at least one opposing view.
Official wording
Write and support a claim using logical reasoning, relevant evidence from sources, elaboration, a logical organizational structure with varied transitions, and acknowledging at least one counterclaim.
ELA.7.C.1.4
Write informational pieces that explain and analyze facts drawn from several sources, backed by relevant details and arranged in a logical pattern.
Official wording
Write expository texts to explain and analyze information from multiple sources, using relevant supporting details and a logical organizational pattern.
ELA.7.C.1.5
Strengthen a draft by planning, revising and editing, taking in suggestions from teachers and peers, like tightening a weak introduction.
Official wording
Improve writing by planning, revising, and editing, considering feedback from adults and peers.
Communicating Orally
ELA.7.C.2.1
Give an oral presentation in a clear order, stressing the key points that back up its central idea.
Official wording
Present information orally, in a logical sequence, emphasizing key points that support the central idea.
Following Conventions
ELA.7.C.3.1
Write with correct seventh grade grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling, like using colons, ellipses and hyphens and avoiding dangling modifiers.
Official wording
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Researching
ELA.7.C.4.1
Research a question using several reliable sources, and come up with new questions worth exploring in later research.
Official wording
Conduct research to answer a question, drawing on multiple reliable and valid sources and generating additional questions for further research.
Creating and Collaborating
ELA.7.C.5.1
Combine different kinds of media, like images and audio, in a speech or written piece so all its parts fit together as a whole.
Official wording
Integrate diverse digital media to build cohesion in oral or written tasks.
ELA.7.C.5.2
Write and share work with digital tools, like typing an essay and posting the final copy to a class website.
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Use digital tools to produce and share writing.

Vocabulary

3 standards
Finding Meaning
ELA.7.V.1.1
Work academic words found in many subjects, like infer, significant and perspective, into your own class talk and writing on purpose.
Official wording
Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.
ELA.7.V.1.2
Figure out new words from their Greek and Latin parts, like bene meaning good in benefit and benevolent.
Official wording
Apply knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to determine meanings of words and phrases in grade-level content.
ELA.7.V.1.3
Use context, figurative language, related words or a dictionary to separate a word's literal meaning from the feeling it carries, like thrifty versus stingy.
Official wording
Apply knowledge of context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the connotative and denotative meaning of words and phrases, appropriate to grade level.

The official Florida documents

Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, Florida Department of Education.

The plain-English lines are EMStudio's own explanations, shown beside the official wording. They are not part of the standards.