7th Grade Reading: Literature

For seventh graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, seventh graders will be asked to: support a textual analysis with multiple direct citations and textual inferences, understand the theme of a piece of literature and how it develops within the text, understand how elements of a drama or story interact, understand certain language conventions in poetry, drama and stories, including the use of rhymes, figurative language, connotative word meanings, alliteration, understand how poetic form and structure like sonnet and soliloquy, begin to analyze how stories change when presented in audio, staged or filmed forms, read text appropriate to grade level while increasing in the level of text complexity throughout the year.