7th Grade Speaking and Listening

For seventh graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of speaking and listening skills related to the language arts. Collaborative work, oral presentations, and the ability to integrate media, digital tools and group projects are the cornerstones of this area. Among the complete standards for this grade, seventh graders will be asked to: participate in collaborative discussions well-prepared through research and reading and drawing on that research to probe and reflect on ideas being discussed, be able to paraphrase materials read aloud or presented in media formats, including visually, quantitatively and orally, include multimedia elements like images, music, and sound, as well as visual displays, in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points, adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks using formal English when correct.