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Kentucky Standards

Kentucky 7th Grade ELA Standards

All 31 Kentucky English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Kentucky Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

31 standards

Reading Standards for Literature

9 standards
RL.7.1
Support a point about a story, play or poem with several quotes or details from it, not just one, for both what it says outright and what it only suggests.
Common Core RL.7.1
RL.7.2
Identify themes in a story or poem and trace how they develop, backing the analysis with quoted evidence, paraphrases or summaries.
RL.7.3
Analyze how parts of a story or play shape each other, like how the setting affects the characters or how a character's choices drive the plot.
RL.7.4
Work out literal, figurative and connotative meanings of words in literature, and analyze how rhyme and repeated sounds, like alliteration, affect a stanza or passage.
RL.7.5
Analyze how the form or structure of a play, poem or prose piece, like a sonnet or a soliloquy, adds to its meaning.
RL.7.6
Analyze how an author builds and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
RL.7.7
Compare and contrast reading a text with watching or hearing it presented, analyzing the effects of tools unique to each medium, like camera angles in film.
RL.7.9
Compare and contrast a fictional version of a time period with a historical account of it to see how authors use or change history.
RL.7.10
Read complex 7th grade stories, plays and poems on their own as a regular habit, building background knowledge and flexibly using reading strategies to understand and analyze them.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

10 standards
RI.7.1
Support a point about a story, play or poem with several quotes or details from it, not just one, for both what it says outright and what it only suggests.
Common Core RL.7.1
RI.7.2
Identify the central ideas of a nonfiction text and trace how they develop, supporting the analysis with cited evidence, paraphrase or summary.
RI.7.3
Analyze how people, events and ideas in a nonfiction text affect each other, like how an idea shapes a person's actions or events shape ideas.
RI.7.4
Work out figurative, connotative and technical meanings of words in nonfiction, and analyze how word choices shape meaning and tone, like crisis versus problem.
RI.7.5
Analyze how an author organizes a nonfiction text, explaining how each major section adds to the whole and helps develop the ideas.
RI.7.6
Figure out an author's point of view and purpose in a nonfiction text, and analyze how the author sets that position apart from the views of others.
RI.7.7
Compare and contrast a text in print with a version in another medium, like a speech's transcript and its video, analyzing how each portrays the subject and affects the audience.
RI.7.8
Identify and evaluate a text's argument and claims, deciding whether the logic holds up and the evidence is relevant and enough to back each claim.
RI.7.9
Analyze how authors writing on the same topic shape their key information by stressing different evidence or reading the facts in different ways.
RI.7.10
Read complex 7th grade nonfiction, like articles and biographies, on their own as a regular habit, using background knowledge and flexible strategies to understand and analyze it.

Composition

7 standards
C.7.1
Write arguments that rebut opposing claims, support the claim with logic and credible, accurate sources, use transitions and a fitting style, and revise with some guidance.
C.7.2
Write formal informative pieces that introduce and organize a topic, develop it with facts, quotes and examples, connect ideas with transitions, and revise with some guidance.
C.7.3
Write real or imagined narratives with a clear point of view, dialogue, pacing and sensory details, ending with a reflection on the events and revising with guidance.
C.7.4
Use online tools to create and publish work and to collaborate with classmates, giving credit to sources in MLA or APA format.
C.7.5
Research a question across several sources in a short project, and let what you find spark new related questions worth looking into next.
Common Core W.7.7
C.7.6
Search print and online sources with well-chosen terms, check each one's accuracy and credibility, and quote or paraphrase them for analysis, citing in MLA or APA to avoid plagiarism.
C.7.7
Write regularly, from multi-day projects to quick responses like an exit ticket, for a range of tasks, purposes and audiences.

Language

5 standards
L.7.1
In speech and writing, put phrases and clauses in the right place and choose simple, compound, complex or compound-complex sentences to show how ideas connect.
L.7.2
When writing, put commas between coordinate adjectives, like a fascinating, enjoyable movie, and use print and online resources to find and fix spelling errors.
L.7.3
Notice the difference between formal and casual English, like Good morning, Mrs. Lee versus Hey, and choose which fits the moment.
Common Core L.2.3
L.7.4
Figure out new and multiple-meaning words in 7th grade texts with context, Greek and Latin parts like port or bene, and dictionaries, and use academic and subject words well.
L.7.5
Explain a nonliteral phrase like take steps, name someone who is friendly to link a word to real life, and rank knew, believed and suspected by how sure they are.
Common Core L.3.5

The official Kentucky documents

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