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South Carolina Standards

South Carolina 7th Grade ELA Standards

All 33 South Carolina English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in South Carolina Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

33 standards

Overarching Expectations

6 standards
ELA.7.OE.1
Commit to extended reading and writing for school and personal purposes, like a month-long novel unit or a personal blog.
ELA.7.OE.2
Learn, refine, and pass on knowledge through text, speech, images, digital media, and interactive sources, like a podcast series or a museum's virtual tour.
ELA.7.OE.3
Infer what a text suggests but never states, like sensing tension in a short exchange between rivals.
ELA.7.OE.4
Work productively with peers and listen actively, like building on a group member's point during a project meeting.
ELA.7.OE.5
Justify a position by citing relevant evidence, like pointing to data in an article to defend a side in a debate.
ELA.7.OE.6
Create polished work that meets the expected format, like a lab report with labeled sections or a formatted business letter.

Applications of Reading

14 standards
ELA.7.AOR.1.1
Analyze how what characters say, key events, or vivid details push a story forward, expose character traits, or shape meaning, like a revealing argument.
ELA.7.AOR.1.2
Examine how personification, hyperbole, and other figurative language set a text's mood and tone and shape its meaning, like an eerie description of a house.
ELA.7.AOR.2.1
Trace two or more themes in one or more stories side by side, comparing how each grows, like courage and loyalty in a survival novel.
ELA.7.AOR.2.2
Compare how two or more main ideas develop across nonfiction, like the costs and benefits of space travel in an article.
ELA.7.AOR.3.1
Explain how narrators, including unreliable ones, and shifts in viewpoint affect a story, and analyze how point of view sets characters' outlooks against each other.
ELA.7.AOR.4.1
Identify an author's viewpoint or purpose and explain how rhetorical techniques, like loaded words or repetition, push it forward.
ELA.7.AOR.5.1
Analyze how the form of a story, play, or poem, like its acts or stanza breaks, adds to what it means.
ELA.7.AOR.5.2
Explain how the build of a key sentence, paragraph, or section, or features like charts and sidebars, show an author's purpose in nonfiction.
ELA.7.AOR.5.3
Follow how an author develops an argument, explaining the reasoning used and any appeals to trust, feelings, or logic, called ethos, pathos, and logos.
ELA.7.AOR.6.1
Summarize or restate grade-level texts in fresh words to strengthen understanding, like paraphrasing a dense paragraph from a history book.
ELA.7.AOR.7.1
Pin down the meaning of new and multiple-meaning words using context, a word's position in a sentence, prior knowledge, and print or digital references.
ELA.7.AOR.8.1
Interpret figurative, connotative, and technical language, like how a metaphor works in context, how words connect, and how assertive and pushy differ in feel.
ELA.7.AOR.9.1
Use affixes and Greek and Latin roots to determine or sharpen word meanings across subjects, like chron in chronological.
ELA.7.AOR.10.1
Evaluate a text or topic across media, like a news story in print and as a TV report, and analyze how each version affects its audience.

Research

5 standards
ELA.7.R.1.1
Research a topic in short and longer projects, posing questions and narrowing the focus to fit the purpose with a range of print and digital sources.
ELA.7.R.1.2
Check each source's credibility and rely on the strongest, like favoring a published study over a sponsored ad.
ELA.7.R.1.3
Choose only the sources and facts that serve the research topic, like cutting a striking statistic that is off-topic.
ELA.7.R.1.4
Arrange research findings logically, like ordering notes on a historical event from causes to lasting effects.
ELA.7.R.1.5
Cite sources properly in research to avoid plagiarism, like an in-text citation after a paraphrased fact.

Written and Oral Communications

8 standards
ELA.7.C.1.1
Write an argument that states a claim, backs it with logic and facts, data, or statistics from credible sources, answers a counterclaim, and concludes strongly.
ELA.7.C.2.1
Write informative essays that organize a topic by definition, comparison, or cause and effect, develop it with sourced details, keep a fitting tone, and conclude.
ELA.7.C.3.1
Write engaging real or imagined narratives with clear context and point of view, a logical plot with time shifts, pacing and dialogue, vivid details, and an apt ending.
ELA.7.C.4.1
Write varied, correct paragraphs, using commas between paired adjectives and hyphenated compounds, fixing dangling modifiers and fragments, and editing final drafts.
ELA.7.C.5.1
Revise drafts for clearer content through planning, editing, and feedback from adults and peers, like sharpening a vague body paragraph.
ELA.7.C.7.1
Present claims and findings with a clear focus and solid evidence, adjusting eye contact, volume, and pace and choosing helpful graphics and digital tools.
ELA.7.C.8.1
Join structured discussions by asking questions that extend ideas, noting new information, adjusting their own views when needed, and weighing others' perspectives.
ELA.7.C.9.1
Evaluate a speaker's argument in a live or recorded talk or transcript, judging how relevant the evidence is and how message, media, and voice suit the audience.

The official South Carolina documents

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