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Georgia 7th Grade ELA Standards

All 110 Georgia English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Georgia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

110 standards

Engagement & Intention for Comprehension & Composition

26 standards
Reader & Writer Identity
7.P.EICC.1.a
Set personal and school goals for reading and writing, like trying a new genre or tightening essay conclusions, then track them, discuss them and revise as needed.
7.P.EICC.1.b
Describe in talk or writing which genres, subjects and writing techniques you enjoy most as a reader and writer, like graphic novels or sharp, funny dialogue.
7.P.EICC.1.c
Pick texts to read and pieces to write that suit your own interests while tying into class topics, like a survival story during a unit on nature.
7.P.EICC.1.d
Build up a set of reading and writing strategies, like annotating or freewriting, and use whichever one helps when making sense of or creating a text.
7.P.EICC.1.e
Join a classroom community of readers and writers by agreeing on group rules, talking about texts, sharing and hearing writing, and giving and using feedback.
7.P.EICC.1.f
Become a more independent reader and writer who manages your own work, like choosing a book club title and planning a writing project with little help.
Engagement & Intention
7.P.EICC.2.a
Read and write true or invented stories to share experiences, like a personal narrative about a family trip or a science fiction story.
7.P.EICC.2.b
Use texts to gain knowledge and skills, make informed choices and share ideas, like comparing product reviews before writing a buying guide.
7.P.EICC.2.c
Read and write to understand and explain ideas and processes, like reading how vaccines work and writing a clear explanation for a younger reader.
7.P.EICC.2.d
Use reading and writing to analyze and evaluate texts and ideas, like writing a review that judges how convincing an editorial is.
7.P.EICC.2.e
Read and write texts that tackle a problem or sway a decision, like a proposal to the city council for a new skate park.
Comprehension Strategies
7.P.EICC.3.a
Set a reason and goals before reading, check your understanding along the way and switch strategies when confused, like taking notes or reading aloud.
7.P.EICC.3.b
Preview a text by skimming and scanning, marking the parts and features most likely to be useful, like section headings or a summary box.
7.P.EICC.3.c
Bring what you already know to a text, compare it with what the text says, sort out conflicts or gaps and add the new learning to what you know.
7.P.EICC.3.d
Summarize and form mental pictures of each section while reading to stay on track, like drawing a quick map of a story's setting.
7.P.EICC.3.e
Predict upcoming events or information while reading and keep track of whether those predictions hold up, revising them as the text unfolds.
7.P.EICC.3.f
Make inferences about what a text means beyond its literal words, like a symbol's deeper meaning, keep track of them and support each with evidence.
7.P.EICC.3.g
Work out unfamiliar words and ideas from context clues, academic vocabulary and word parts, like the root graph meaning write in autograph.
Writing Processes
7.P.EICC.4.a
Start writing by setting a purpose and goals and naming the readers you want to reach, like parents reading a newsletter or a contest judge.
7.P.EICC.4.b
Plan how to organize a piece by choosing a form, genre and structure that fit the purpose and readers, like problem and solution for a proposal.
7.P.EICC.4.c
Gather ideas for writing by reviewing what you already know, collecting facts from texts and discussing the topic with others.
7.P.EICC.4.d
Fit ideas and information into your writing plan, flagging the most relevant and powerful ones so they stand out.
7.P.EICC.4.e
Draft a piece by weaving ideas together and choosing words, sentences and writing techniques that serve the purpose and appeal to the intended readers.
7.P.EICC.4.f
Evaluate how well a piece of writing works, through self-review or peer feedback, deciding whether it meets its purpose and goals.
7.P.EICC.4.g
Improve a draft based on your own evaluation or feedback, revising its structure, ideas, information, wording and techniques to make it more effective.
7.P.EICC.4.h
Edit writing for correct grammar, usage, spelling and punctuation so it meets the conventions of standard written English.

Situating Texts

6 standards
Context
7.P.ST.1.a
Use what you know, research and discussion to pin down the background that matters most for a text, like the era, place or culture it comes from.
7.P.ST.1.b
Consider how the situation around a text shapes why the author wrote it and why readers read it, like an ad written for the holiday season.
7.P.ST.1.c
Explore how background like time period, place and culture shapes an author's choices and readers' reactions, both when reading and when writing.
Author, Audience, & Purpose
7.P.ST.2.a
Use knowledge of the writer, readers and context to identify or set a text's purpose, then judge how fully the text achieves it.
7.P.ST.2.b
Draw on knowledge of the writer, readers and context to identify a text's viewpoint and to give your own writing a clear, original perspective.
7.P.ST.2.c
Use what you know about how writers weigh readers and context to choose which ideas to stress, the clearest layout, and the most effective words and techniques.

Author’s Craft

12 standards
Reading like a Writer
7.P.AC.1.a
Identify and use literary, informational and persuasive elements, like a narrator's voice or an appeal to logic, and evaluate how they affect readers and purpose.
7.P.AC.1.b
Identify and analyze powerful language in texts, try it in your own writing, and evaluate how specific word choices move readers and serve the purpose.
7.P.AC.1.c
Analyze and evaluate how an author's sentence structure affects readers, like a long, winding sentence that slows down a reflective passage.
7.P.AC.1.d
Analyze and evaluate how a text's design and organization, like sidebars, numbered steps or a problem and solution pattern, shape readers' experience and purpose.
Writing like a Reader
7.P.AC.2.a
Blend literary, informational and persuasive elements in your own texts to reach target readers and goals, like pairing statistics with a story in a speech.
7.P.AC.2.b
Craft word and phrase choices to shape how readers react and what they decide, like loaded words in a persuasive letter.
7.P.AC.2.c
Decide on sentence structure to suit and sway readers and meet a goal, like a question to open an essay or varied sentence lengths for rhythm.
7.P.AC.2.d
Structure your own texts with formats and features, like subheadings, sidebars or a comparison table, to guide readers, aid access and serve the purpose.
Text Design
7.P.AC.3.a
Explore and create texts in many forms and genres, like blogs, graphic novels and speeches, learning how their features shape meaning, tone, style and audience.
7.P.AC.3.b
Apply what you know about a form or genre to choose what content to include, like data in a lab report or personal feelings in a journal entry.
7.P.AC.3.c
Apply what you know about a form or genre to arrange content, like problem then solution in a proposal or rising action to a climax in a story.
7.P.AC.3.d
Read and produce texts that combine words, visuals, audio or video, blending genres and features to reach readers, like a video essay or an infographic.

Collaboration & Presentation

9 standards
Collaboration
7.P.CP.1.a
Show up to group discussions and meetings prepared to contribute, like having read the assigned chapter and marked passages to discuss.
7.P.CP.1.b
Work with others to set group rules, goals and procedures for shared projects and keep work moving, like a checklist and deadlines for each member.
7.P.CP.1.c
Contribute to group discussions and projects by offering ideas, listening to others' thinking and giving useful feedback.
7.P.CP.1.d
Partner with classmates to debate a topic, dig into a question, work through a problem or build a text together, like a team research project on a local issue.
Presentation
7.P.CP.2.a
Speak clearly when presenting ideas, information or texts, like a persuasive talk or a summary of research findings.
7.P.CP.2.b
Combine the presentation forms that best suit the purpose and audience, like a speech with a short video clip or a podcast with an infographic.
7.P.CP.2.c
Change your tone, speed and body language to suit the purpose and listeners, like slowing down and pausing to stress a key point.
7.P.CP.2.d
Engage listeners in a back-and-forth exchange by posing questions and responding to theirs during or after a talk.
7.P.CP.2.e
Recite all or part of important poems and speeches suited to seventh grade, like a passage from a famous speech, to build background knowledge.

Grammar Conventions

13 standards
Grammar, Usage, & Mechanics
7.L.GC.1.49
Master setting off extra, nonessential information with commas, parentheses or dashes, like Our coach, a former pro, ran the drills.
7.L.GC.1.50
Keep practicing using ellipses correctly, like marking words cut from a quoted passage or a pause in a character's speech.
7.L.GC.1.51
Keep practicing using hyphens with certain prefixes and in compound words, like all-star, self-esteem and a two-day trip.
7.L.GC.1.52
Keep practicing joining clauses with a semicolon, with or without a transition word like moreover, to form compound and compound-complex sentences.
7.L.GC.1.53
Keep practicing using words, phrases and clauses to fill different sentence roles, like subject, direct object, predicate nominative or modifier.
7.L.GC.1.54
Continue to punctuate quoted text evidence correctly, with capital letters, quotation marks, commas, end marks and the source and page in parentheses after it.
7.L.GC.1.55
Learn and master the demonstrative pronouns this, that, these and those, which point to specific things, like These belong to me.
7.L.GC.1.56
Begin using colons to introduce a list, an example or an explanation, like Pack three things: a map, water and a snack.
7.L.GC.1.57
Begin forming and using verbals and verbal phrases by their job in a sentence: participles as adjectives, gerunds as nouns and infinitives like to win.
Syntax
7.L.GC.2.a
Apply knowledge of sentence structure to understand and analyze seventh grade texts, like working out how the clauses in a long sentence relate.
7.L.GC.2.b
Vary sentences among simple, compound, complex and compound-complex types to combine and condense ideas, keeping the same verb tense from start to finish.
7.L.GC.2.c
Tell active voice from passive voice, like The team won the game versus The game was won, and revise writing to stay in active voice.
7.L.GC.2.d
Enrich writing with descriptive modifiers placed where they belong, fixing misplaced or dangling ones, like Running to class, my book fell.

Vocabulary

10 standards
General, Academic, & Specialized Vocabulary
7.L.V.1.a
Pick up everyday, academic and subject-area words from seventh grade print, online and multimedia texts, like hypothesis, theme or proportional.
7.L.V.1.b
Use seventh grade everyday, academic and subject-area words to communicate clearly and precisely, like saying photosynthesis rather than how plants eat.
Word Analysis
7.L.V.2.a
Take words apart using word histories, Greek and Latin roots, base words and affixes to find their meanings in seventh grade texts, like chrono in chronology.
7.L.V.2.b
Use parts of speech to work out what words and phrases mean in seventh grade texts, like whether project is a noun or a verb in a sentence.
7.L.V.2.c
Form words from Greek and Latin roots, base words and affixes, like joining trans- and port to make transport, and use them correctly in context.
7.L.V.2.d
Use parts of speech to choose exact words and phrases when writing, like the precise verb sprinted instead of the verb and adverb ran fast.
Meaning & Purpose
7.L.V.3.b
Clarify unknown or multiple-meaning words and phrases by analyzing their links to nearby words, using synonyms, antonyms, analogies and context clues.
7.L.V.3.c
Distinguish the shades of feeling in words with similar meanings, like slender, skinny and scrawny, or determined and stubborn.
7.L.V.3.d
Use print and digital resources, like a glossary, online dictionary or a word processor's built-in tools, to find or check the meaning of unknown words.
7.L.V.3.e
Sort out the fine differences between closely related words, like famous and notorious, with reference tools, then choose wisely when speaking or writing.

Context

7 standards
Purpose & Audience
7.T.C.1.a
Analyze how a single text develops more than one purpose, like a speech that entertains and persuades, and how each purpose targets particular readers.
7.T.C.1.b
Use features of a text's form, like charts, maps or video clips, to understand and analyze science and social studies texts and their contexts.
7.T.C.1.c
Create multimodal texts or presentations for a set purpose and audience that use several clear features from each mode, like images, captions, audio and video.
Authors & Speakers
7.T.C.2.a
Pinpoint the dominant viewpoint in a text and examine how the writer separates it from other views or confirms it with support.
7.T.C.2.b
Analyze how an author's evidence and tone reveal their viewpoint and affect how trustworthy they seem, like a sarcastic tone in a review.
7.T.C.2.c
Analyze how background and context, like the region, era and events of the time, shaped the way a text was developed.
7.T.C.2.d
Research answers to questions on school subjects and personal interests using trustworthy sources, like government sites or published books.

Structure & Style

7 standards
Organization
7.T.SS.1.a
Analyze how authors change a text's structure or features to create meaning, fit readers or reach a goal, like using flashbacks or a question and answer format.
7.T.SS.1.b
Design your own texts by flexibly combining structures and features, like a compare and contrast layout with a sidebar, to share information with style.
7.T.SS.1.c
Link ideas, sentences, paragraphs and sections with a variety of transitions, like in contrast, as a result and meanwhile.
7.T.SS.1.d
Write multi-paragraph pieces with a clear structure: an introduction that sets the focus, supporting facts, reasons, details or events, and a conclusion.
Craft
7.T.SS.2.a
Explain how figurative language, word connotations and literary devices, like symbolism or irony, build a text's meaning, mood or tone.
7.T.SS.2.b
Use figures of speech, literary devices and words with strong connotations on purpose in your writing to reach a goal or appeal to readers, like personification.
7.T.SS.2.c
Decide when a situation calls for formal or informal language and write or speak to match, like a cover letter versus a text to a friend.

Techniques

12 standards
Narrative Techniques
7.T.T.1.a
Analyze how techniques like dialogue, pacing and description work across a story to develop its plot, characters and setting.
7.T.T.1.b
Analyze how a story is built through its plot structure, its conflicts and devices like flashback and foreshadowing.
7.T.T.1.c
Compare how different texts build and express their themes through characters, events and the shape of the plot, like two coming-of-age stories.
7.T.T.1.d
Set a novel's picture of a time, place or person beside a real history of that era and compare them, like a Dust Bowl novel and a history article.
7.T.T.1.e
Apply storytelling techniques like flashback, pacing and sensory detail in your own narratives to draw readers in and achieve a purpose.
Expository Techniques
7.T.T.2.a
Analyze how informational texts present content through a main idea, facts, statistics, key details, text features like graphs and a clear sense of closure.
7.T.T.2.b
Analyze the ways several writers covering one topic shape the key information, each stressing different evidence or reading the facts differently.
7.T.T.2.d
Build your own informational writing around a central point backed by facts, numbers and key details, with features like charts and a strong closing that engages readers.
Argumentative Techniques
7.T.T.3.a
Analyze how arguments are built from a claim, relevant evidence, an acknowledged counterclaim and a conclusion that follows from the reasoning.
7.T.T.3.c
Strengthen your own arguments with a clear claim, relevant evidence, a counterclaim you address and a logical conclusion, like an essay on phones in class.
Poetic Techniques
7.T.T.4.a
Analyze how poets use stanzas, rhyme scheme, imagery, figurative language and sound devices like onomatopoeia to shape a poem's meaning and effect.
7.T.T.4.b
Write poetry with stanzas, rhyme, vivid imagery, figures of speech and sound devices to engage readers, like a poem about a favorite place.

Research & Analysis

6 standards
Research & Inquiry
7.T.RA.1.a
Form research questions that guide an investigation and connect related topics, like how social media use links to sleep habits.
7.T.RA.1.b
Carry out research by finding, collecting, organizing and combining information from reliable print, online and interview sources on a text or topic.
7.T.RA.1.c
Use your research and growing knowledge to analyze texts, backing, questioning or building on their ideas, like testing an article's claims against data.
Curating Sources & Evidence
7.T.RA.2.a
Collect evidence from printed and online sources that backs up a central idea or research question, recording full details like author, title, website, page and year.
7.T.RA.2.b
Judge whether print and online sources are credible and relevant, deciding whether their ideas and information actually support the research topic.
7.T.RA.2.c
Cite quoted and paraphrased evidence in a standard format, like MLA, giving credit for others' ideas and listing every source on a works cited page.

Periods & Movements

2 standards
Periods & Movements
7.T.PM.1.a
Read and analyze myths and stories, real or invented, that modern authors have reworked, and identify the main features of their style and theme.
7.T.PM.1.b
Read and analyze one genre from a particular era, like Gothic tales of the 1800s, and identify the key traits of its style and themes.

The official Georgia documents

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