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Wisconsin Standards

Wisconsin 7th Grade ELA Standards

All 29 Wisconsin English language arts standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's document, linked at the end of this page.

29 standards

Reading

9 standards
R.7.1
Cite text evidence that supports their analysis of a text's direct and implied meaning, and draw logical inferences, like a speaker's unstated goal.
R.7.2
Summarize texts in many genres, name a theme or central idea, and analyze how it develops from the opening to the ending.
R.7.3
Analyze how parts of a plot, like a conflict and its climax, shape each other and the meaning, and how nonfiction links and develops people, events, and ideas.
R.7.4
Work out figurative and connotative meanings, including words with several senses, and analyze how choices like thrifty versus cheap shape meaning, tone, and mood.
R.7.5
Analyze how a text's structure, from genre features in stories to the way nonfiction sections fit the whole, helps develop its themes or central ideas.
R.7.6
Analyze how an author contrasts characters' viewpoints and biases, and explain how a nonfiction author's background shapes and sets apart their position.
R.7.7
Compare a written text with its audio, film, stage, or digital version, analyzing what each format's techniques add, like camera angles in a movie.
R.7.8
Trace and judge an argument, checking whether the reasoning holds up and the evidence is relevant and enough, and spotting evidence that does not belong.
R.7.9
Judge a text's quality and relate it to other works, ideas, cultures, identities, historical periods, and their own life, like two poems about home.

Writing

9 standards
W.7.1
Write in reflective, formal, and creative ways, together or apart, for both low- and high-stakes purposes, like an exit ticket or a literary essay.
W.7.2
Write arguments that address opposing claims with credible sources, informative texts using facts, quotes, and graphics, and narratives with a clear point of view.
W.7.3
Open with suspense, structure writing to fit its purpose, connect ideas with varied transitions and clauses, use sensory details, and close with a fitting conclusion.
W.7.4
Write clear, coherent work alone or in a group, like a shared report, with an organization and style that suit the audience and honor each writer's culture.
W.7.5
Plan, revise, edit and rewrite a history or science paper with some help from classmates and teachers, checking that it serves its purpose and readers.
Common Core WHST.6-8.5
W.7.6
Publish writing with tools from pencil to online and multimedia formats, show how ideas connect, work with others, and link to and cite sources.
W.7.7
Answer a research question in a short project using several sources, then come up with new focused questions to explore next.
W.7.8
Find information with smart search terms, check sources for credibility and accuracy, quote or paraphrase without plagiarizing, and cite in a standard format.
W.7.9
Support analysis, reflection, and research with evidence from literature and nonfiction, like a quote that reveals a character's motive.

Speaking and Listening

5 standards
SL.7.1
Come prepared to discussions with evidence, set and track group norms, ask questions that invite detail, steer talk back on topic, and weigh several perspectives.
SL.7.2
Analyze main ideas and details from media like documentaries or infographics and explain how they clarify the topic or text being studied.
SL.7.3
Evaluate a speaker's argument, judging whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and strong enough, like in a persuasive speech.
SL.7.4
Deliver claims and findings with a clear focus on the most important points, backed by evidence, speaking engagingly and explaining their language choices.
SL.7.5
Use multimedia and visual displays, like a short video or chart, to clarify claims and findings and highlight key points in a presentation.

Language

6 standards
L.7.1
See standard English as one dialect tied to power, match language to each situation, including code-meshing, keep a steady tone, and cut wordiness.
L.7.2
Confirm a guessed word meaning by rereading the context or checking a dictionary, and use Greek and Latin roots, like chron in chronicle, as clues.
L.7.3
Explain figurative, literal, and connotative meanings, how similar words differ in feel, and how rhyme, alliteration, and assonance affect a poem or play.
L.7.4
Grow vocabulary alone and in groups when meeting new cultural, academic, and subject terms, and pick words deliberately to suit the context, like in a lab report.
L.7.5
Use standard grammar where it fits and explain choices with phrases, clauses, and simple, compound, and complex sentences, and fix dangling modifiers.
L.7.6
Separate coordinate adjectives with commas, like a long, hot day, spell correctly, and explain these choices in formal writing.

The official Wisconsin documents

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