Missouri Standards
Missouri 7th Grade ELA Standards
All 34 Missouri English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's document, linked at the end of this page.
34 standards
Reading Literary Text
12 standards7.RL.1.A
Support conclusions and inferences about a story with several quoted details, showing what it says directly and what its clues suggest.
7.RL.1.B
Work out the meaning of words and phrases in a novel or poem, including figurative and connotative senses, using context, roots and affixes, or a dictionary.
7.RL.1.C
Interpret the images or other visuals that come with a story, like a graphic novel panel, and draw conclusions from them when present.
7.RL.1.D
Identify a story's theme, explain how key details support it, and summarize the text without adding your own opinions.
7.RL.2.A
Analyze how a text's form or overall structure adds to its meaning, like a story told in diary entries or a sonnet's fourteen lines.
7.RL.2.B
Explain how an author builds the differing points of view of two or more characters or narrators and plays them against each other.
7.RL.2.C
Analyze how an author's specific word choices build meaning and set the tone, like gloomy words that create a sense of dread.
7.RL.2.D
Analyze how setting, characters, and plot shape one another and add to a story's meaning, like a storm that forces a character to act.
7.RL.3.A
Compare and contrast a written story, play, or poem with its audio, film, stage, or multimedia version, analyzing how each medium's techniques shape meaning.
7.RL.3.B
Compare and contrast a fictional picture of a time, place, or person with real historical accounts of the same subject.
7.RL.3.C
Explain how characters and settings reflect their history or culture, like a story set in a 1920s immigrant neighborhood.
7.RL.3.D
Read seventh grade stories, plays, and poems on your own and understand them fully and accurately.
Reading Informational Text
12 standards7.RI.1.A
Support conclusions about nonfiction with several pieces of quoted evidence, for both what the text states and what it implies.
7.RI.1.B
Work out word meanings in nonfiction, including figurative, connotative, and subject-specific terms like photosynthesis, using context, word parts, or references.
7.RI.1.C
Interpret visuals in nonfiction, including ones from other media like infographics or video, and draw conclusions from them when a text has them.
7.RI.1.D
Explain a text's central idea and how the evidence supports it, then summarize the text objectively, leaving out your own opinions.
7.RI.2.A
Analyze how a nonfiction text's organization or overall structure adds to its meaning, like cause and effect or problem and solution.
7.RI.2.B
Analyze how an author builds a point of view or purpose and sets it apart from the positions of others.
7.RI.2.C
Analyze how an author's word choices in nonfiction shape meaning and tone, like loaded words that make an issue sound urgent.
7.RI.2.D
Evaluate an author's argument by judging whether the reasoning holds up and whether the evidence is relevant and strong enough to back the claims.
7.RI.3.A
Compare and contrast information given in different media, like print, audio, and video, and analyze how each medium's techniques shape meaning.
7.RI.3.B
Compare and contrast the craft and structure choices that two or more authors make when writing about the same topic.
7.RI.3.C
Explain how a nonfiction text reflects the history or culture it comes from, like a speech from the civil rights era.
7.RI.3.D
Read seventh grade informational texts, like news features and science articles, on your own and understand them fully.
Writing
4 standards7.W.1.A.a
Research a question by gathering relevant print and digital sources, then combine the information and credit sources with a standard citation format.
7.W.1.A.b
Pick good search terms to find print and online sources, check each for accuracy and reliability, and quote or paraphrase it with a citation in a format like MLA.
7.W.2.A
Plan and draft clear writing for its audience, including stories with a steady point of view, explanations tied to evidence, and arguments that address counterclaims.
7.W.3.A
Revise and edit drafts for focus, precise words, varied sentences, transitions, and correct grammar, then publish online with linked and cited sources.
Speaking and Listening
6 standards7.SL.1.A
Follow agreed rules for class discussions and group decisions, track progress toward set goals and deadlines, and define individual roles when needed.
7.SL.1.B
Trace and evaluate a speaker's argument, ask questions that draw out more detail, and answer others with relevant ideas that steer the talk back on topic.
7.SL.1.C
Acknowledge new information from others, including through video or other media, and change your own views when the information justifies it.
7.SL.2.A
Present clearly at a good volume and an easy-to-follow pace, staying on point and using language that fits the task, purpose, and audience.
7.SL.2.B
Face the audience while speaking, make eye contact at intervals, and use effective gestures that make your viewpoint clear.
7.SL.2.C
Plan and give presentations suited to the task and audience, using multimedia like charts or short clips to clarify claims and stress key points.
The official Missouri documents
- Missouri Learning Standards: 6-12 English Language Arts Grade-Level Expectations · adopted April 2016 · since 2016-17
The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Missouri's standards, not the official wording, which Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.