Grade 7
Grade 7 English Language Arts
9 units and 54 learning lessons. This is the outline a Grade 7 student works through in English Language Arts — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Grade 7 English Language Arts
OHM School · Grade 7
English Language Arts
9 units · 54 lessons
It opens with Citing Textual Evidence and closes with Grammar and Vocabulary.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 9
Citing Textual Evidence
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Selecting the Strongest Evidence
- 2Making Inferences from Several Pieces of Evidence
- 3Integrating Quotations Smoothly
Unit 2 of 9
Theme and Character Change
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Theme Development Across a Text
- 2Objective Summaries
- 3Tracking Character Change
- 4How Setting Shapes Character and Plot
- 5Connecting Character Change to Theme
- 6Contrasting Points of View
Unit 3 of 9
Literary Craft: Sound, Form, and Media
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Sound and Repetition in Poetry
- 2Allusions and Connotations
- 3Sonnets and Soliloquies
- 4Page, Stage, and Screen
- 5Historical Fiction and History
- 6Independent Novel Study
Unit 4 of 9
Reading Informational Texts
9 lessons
Lessons
- 1Two or More Central Ideas
- 2Individuals, Events, and Ideas
- 3Word Choice and Tone in Nonfiction
- 4Text Structure and Sections
- 5Author's Position
- 6Text and Multimedia Versions
- 7Evaluating Reasoning and Evidence
- 8Two Authors on One Topic
- 9Reading Literary Nonfiction
Unit 5 of 9
Argument Writing
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Analyzing an Audience
- 2Claims and Opposing Claims
- 3Building a Multi-Reason Argument
- 4Credible Evidence in Arguments
- 5Formal Style and Conclusions
Unit 6 of 9
Narrative Writing
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Engaging Openings and Point of View
- 2Dialogue, Pacing, and Description
- 3Transitions and Conclusions
- 4Revising and Editing Narratives
- 5Timed Writing
Unit 7 of 9
Informative and Research Writing
7 lessons
Lessons
- 1Organizing Informative Writing
- 2Developing a Focused Research Question
- 3Searching Effectively
- 4Evaluating Source Credibility
- 5Citing Sources
- 6Synthesizing Sources into a Report
- 7Publishing Research Online
Unit 8 of 9
Speaking and Listening
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Building on Others' Ideas
- 2Analyzing Media Sources
- 3Evaluating a Speaker's Argument
- 4Presenting Claims and Findings
- 5Multimedia and Adapting Speech
Unit 9 of 9
Grammar and Vocabulary
8 lessons
Lessons
- 1Phrases and Clauses
- 2Sentence Types
- 3Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
- 4Commas with Coordinate Adjectives
- 5Precise and Concise Language
- 6Roots, Affixes, and Context
- 7Reference Tools
- 8Academic Vocabulary
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered9 units and 54 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of English Language Arts in Grade 7, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Grade 7 student would work through today.
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