GLE-RW7
COLORADO MODEL CONTENT
STANDARDS FOR READING AND
WRITING
7th Grade Level Expectations
Standard 1:
Students read and understand a variety of materials
Seventh grade students will:
1.1 compare and contrast texts with similar characters, plots, and/or themes;
1.2 summarize text read such as newspaper and magazine articles, technical writing,
stories, and poetry;
1.3 determine the main idea or essential message in a text;
1.4 make reasonable inferences from information that is implied but not directly stated;
1.5 infer by making connections between separated sections of a text;
1.6 find support in the text for main ideas;
1.7 use word recognition skills to comprehend text (for example, roots, prefixes, and
suffixes);
1.8 find the sequence of steps in a technical publication.
Standard 2:
Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences
Seventh grade students will:
2.1 write in a variety of genres such as personal narratives, informational brochures,
essays, stories, and letters for specific purposes such as to entertain, to persuade,
and to inform;
2.2 develop ideas and content with significant details, examples, and/or reasons;
2.3 organize ideas so that there is an inviting introduction, logical arrangement of
ideas, and a satisfying conclusion;
2.4 use transitions to link ideas;
2.5 plan, draft, revise, and edit for a legible final copy;
2.6 use a variety of sentence structures with varied length;
2.7 write with a voice appropriate to purpose and audience;
2.8 choose a range of words that are precise and vivid.
Standard 3:
Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence
structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Seventh grade students will:
3.1 identify parts of speech such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives;
3.2 use standard English usage in writing, including subject/verb agreement, pronoun
referents, modifiers, homonyms, and homophones;
3.3 write in complete sentences;
3.4 use capitals correctly, such as in titles, direct quotations, and proper nouns;
3.5 punctuate correctly, including apostrophes; commas in dialogue, compound
sentences, complex sentences, and direct address; and semi-colons;
3.6 use paragraphs correctly so that each paragraph is differentiated by indenting or
blocking and includes one major but focused idea;
3.7 use conventional spelling in published work;
3.8 use writing resources such as dictionaries to monitor spelling accuracy.
Standard 4:
Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
Seventh grade students will:
4.1 recognize an author's or speaker's point of view and purpose;
4.2 use reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing to solve problems and answer
questions;
4.3 distinguish between fact and opinion;
4.4 make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze what they read, hear, and view.
Standard 5:
Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources.
Seventh grade students will:
5.1 use organizational features of printed text such as chapter preview and summaries,
prefaces, annotations, bold face print, and appendices;
5.2 use library and interlibrary catalog databases and organizational features of electronic
information (for example, microfiche headings and numbering, Internet, electronic
mail, CD-ROM, laser disc);
5.3 locate and select relevant information;
5.4 paraphrase, summarize, organize, and synthesize information;
5.5 use available media resources, including technology, to research and produce a
document.
Standard 6:
Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience
Seventh grade students will:
6.1 read, respond to, and discuss a variety of novels, poetry, short stories, non-fiction, and
plays;
6.2 read, respond to, and discuss literature that represents points of view from places,
people, and events that are familiar and unfamiliar;
6.3 use literature terminology accurately, including setting, character, conflict, plot,
resolution, dialect, and point of view;
6.4 apply knowledge of literary techniques, including foreshadowing, metaphor, simile,
personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and flashback, to understand text.