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Ohio 7th Grade ELA Standards

All 45 Ohio English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Ohio Department of Education and Workforce's document, linked at the end of this page.

45 standards

Reading Literature

9 standards
RL.7.1
Support your analysis of what a story states and what it implies with several pieces of evidence, quoted or paraphrased.
RL.7.2
Determine a theme of a story or poem, analyze how it develops from start to finish, and write an unbiased summary covering the theme and story details.
RL.7.3
Analyze how key story elements, like the setting or a conflict, shape the plot and the way characters grow in a story or play.
RL.7.4
Interpret figurative and connotative words in a story or poem and analyze how choices like rhyme and alliteration affect its meaning and tone.
RL.7.5
Analyze how the form of a play or poem, like a soliloquy or a sonnet, helps create its meaning.
RL.7.6
Analyze how the choice of point of view lets an author build and contrast the outlooks of different narrators, speakers, or characters.
RL.7.7
Compare a story or play with its audio, film, stage, or multimedia version, analyzing what each medium's techniques, like lighting or camera angles, add.
RL.7.9
Compare a fictional picture of a time, place, or person with a historical account of that period to see how fiction writers use or change history.
RL.7.10
Read and understand seventh grade literature, with support as needed, drawing connections to your own experience, other books, and the world.

Reading Informational

10 standards
RI.7.1
Back up your analysis of what a nonfiction text says directly and what it implies with several pieces of quoted or paraphrased evidence.
RI.7.2
Identify two or more central ideas in a nonfiction text, analyze how each develops, and write an unbiased summary of those ideas and how they unfold.
RI.7.3
Explain how the people, events and ideas in a nonfiction text act on one another, like how a new idea changed what a leader did or how one person shifted an event.
Common Core RI.7.3
RI.7.4
Interpret figurative, connotative, and technical words in a nonfiction text and analyze how specific word choices affect its meaning and tone.
RI.7.5
Analyze how an author organizes a nonfiction text, including how major sections and features like headings serve the whole and build its ideas.
RI.7.6
Determine an author's viewpoint or purpose in a nonfiction text and analyze how the author handles evidence or views that disagree.
RI.7.7
Compare a nonfiction text with its audio, video, or multimedia version, analyzing how each presents the topic, like how delivery changes a speech's impact.
RI.7.8
Trace and judge an author's argument by naming its claims, testing whether the reasoning is sound, and checking that evidence is relevant, sufficient, and on topic.
RI.7.9
Analyze how two or more authors on the same topic present it differently through the evidence they choose or how they interpret the facts.
RI.7.10
Read and understand seventh grade nonfiction, with support as needed, relating it to your own experience, other texts, and events in the world.

Reading Foundations

2 standards
RF.7.3
Read unfamiliar words by breaking them into roots, prefixes, and suffixes and using word origins, know common Latin and Greek parts, and read words like region instantly.
RF.7.4
Read seventh grade texts aloud with 95 percent or better accuracy and natural expression at 146 or more words correct per minute, rereading to fix confusion.

Writing Foundations

2 standards
WF.7.1
Write by hand in print or cursive clearly and fast enough to sustain long pieces and keep up with notes.
WF.7.2
Spell long and unfamiliar words accurately using syllable types and division, spelling rules, roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and spell seventh grade irregular words.

Writing

10 standards
W.7.1
Write an argument with a clear thesis, organized claims and logical reasons, accurate sources, a response to opposing claims, linking words, and a supporting conclusion.
W.7.2
Write an informative piece with a thesis that previews the topic, accurate sourced facts and quotations, a clear structure, linking transitions, and a supporting conclusion.
W.7.3
Write a real or imagined narrative that orients the reader, uses dialogue, pacing, vivid detail, and transitions, and ends by reflecting on the events.
W.7.4
Write clear, connected pieces, developing and organizing ideas to suit the assignment, its purpose, and who will read it.
W.7.5
With adult help that steadily fades, plan, revise, and edit your writing, using adult or peer feedback to sharpen clarity, organization, and punctuation.
W.7.6
Use digital tools and keyboarding to write and publish work, link to or cite sources, and collaborate with others.
W.7.7
Do independent research to answer a question, using multiple sources, recording and judging relevant evidence, and raising new questions to explore further.
W.7.8
Search print and digital sources with good search terms, check each one's credibility and accuracy, quote or paraphrase accurately, and cite sources in a standard format.
W.7.9
Draw on evidence from seventh grade literature and nonfiction to analyze, elaborate, reflect, and support research in your writing.
W.7.10
Write regularly in short sittings and longer projects, moving from plan to draft to edit and revision across many subjects, purposes, and audiences.

Speaking and Listening

6 standards
SL.7.1
Come to discussions prepared, track group roles and goals, build on others' remarks, ask questions that invite detail, and rethink your views when new facts warrant.
SL.7.2
Break down the main ideas and supporting details in videos, audio, primary sources, charts, and infographics and explain how they clarify a topic being studied.
SL.7.3
Outline a speaker's argument and claims, judging whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant, accurate, and sufficient.
SL.7.4
Present claims and findings in a focused way that stresses the most important points, with relevant facts and examples, eye contact, and clear, steady speech.
SL.7.5
Use multimedia and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and highlight the key points.
SL.7.6
Shift your speaking style to fit different settings and tasks, switching to formal language when it is expected or fitting.

Language

6 standards
L.7.1
Explain what phrases and clauses do, use simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, move phrases for effect, and fix misplaced and dangling modifiers.
L.7.2
Use commas between coordinate adjectives, like a long, tiring hike, and spell accurately using phonics, word parts, and print or digital resources.
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 unknown or multiple-meaning words using context, Greek and Latin roots like bell for war, and dictionaries or thesauruses to check meaning and pronunciation.
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
L.7.6
Use conversational, academic, and subject-specific vocabulary suited to seventh grade, built up through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

The official Ohio documents

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