British Columbia
Skills available for British Columbia grade 7 English language arts curriculum
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7.CC Curricular Competencies
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7.CC.1 Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
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7.CC.1.1 Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
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7.CC.1.2 Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking
- Determine the main idea of a passage (7-A.1)
- Match the quotations with their themes (7-B.1)
- Analyze short stories (7-F.1)
- Read and understand informational passages (7-G.1)
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (7-P.1)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (7-P.4)
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (7-U.2)
- Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (7-U.3)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (7-U.4)
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7.CC.1.3 Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
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7.CC.1.4 Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
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7.CC.1.5 Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
- Match the quotations with their themes (7-B.1)
- Determine the themes of short stories (7-B.2)
- Identify the author's purpose (7-C.1)
- Which sentence is more formal? (7-C.2)
- Compare passages for tone (7-C.3)
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (7-E.1)
- Recall the source of an allusion (7-E.2)
- Interpret figures of speech (7-E.3)
- Classify figures of speech (7-E.4)
- Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (7-E.5)
- Analyze short stories (7-F.1)
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects (7-I.1)
- Use personification (7-L.1)
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7.CC.1.6 Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
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7.CC.1.7 Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
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7.CC.1.8 Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
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7.CC.1.9 Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
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7.CC.1.10 Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
- Identify the author's purpose (7-C.1)
- Which sentence is more formal? (7-C.2)
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (7-E.1)
- Recall the source of an allusion (7-E.2)
- Interpret figures of speech (7-E.3)
- Classify figures of speech (7-E.4)
- Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (7-E.5)
- Use personification (7-L.1)
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7.CC.1.11 Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
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7.CC.1.12 Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
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7.CC.1.13 Recognize the validity of First Peoples oral tradition for a range of purposes
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7.CC.2 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
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7.CC.2.1 Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
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7.CC.2.2 Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
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7.CC.2.3 Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message
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7.CC.2.4 Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Use dictionary entries (7-W.3)
- Use dictionary definitions (7-W.4)
- Use thesaurus entries (7-W.5)
- What does the punctuation suggest? (7-KK.1)
- Commas with nonrestrictive elements (7-KK.2)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (7-LL.1)
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters (7-LL.2)
- Commas with coordinate adjectives (7-LL.3)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (7-MM.1)
- Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (7-MM.2)
- Use dashes (7-NN.1)
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives (7-NN.2)
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately (7-NN.3)
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7.CC.2.5 Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
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7.CC.2.6 Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose, and message
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7.CC.2.7 Transform ideas and information to create original texts
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7.C Content
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7.C.1 Story/text
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7.C.1.1 forms, functions, and genres of text
- Compare and contrast in informational texts (7-D.1)
- Match causes and effects in informational texts (7-D.2)
- Match problems with their solutions (7-D.3)
- Identify text structures (7-D.4)
- Analyze short stories (7-F.1)
- Read and understand informational passages (7-G.1)
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects (7-I.1)
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7.C.1.2 text features
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7.C.1.3 literary elements
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7.C.1.4 literary devices
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7.C.1.5 argument
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7.C.2 Strategies and processes
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7.C.2.1 reading strategies
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (7-P.1)
- Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (7-P.2)
- Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (7-P.3)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (7-P.4)
- Find words using context (7-U.1)
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (7-U.2)
- Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (7-U.3)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (7-U.4)
- Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures (7-V.1)
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7.C.2.2 oral language strategies
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7.C.2.3 metacognitive strategies
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7.C.2.4 writing processes
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7.C.3 Language features, structures, and conventions
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7.C.3.1 features of oral language
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7.C.3.2 paragraphing
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7.C.3.3 language varieties
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7.C.3.4 syntax and sentence fluency
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (7-J.3)
- Use parallel structure (7-M.1)
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (7-X.5)
- Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (7-X.6)
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (7-X.7)
- Is it a phrase or a clause? (7-Y.1)
- Identify dependent and independent clauses (7-Y.3)
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (7-Y.4)
- Combine sentences using relative clauses (7-Y.5)
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (7-II.1)
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7.C.3.5 conventions
- Use dictionary entries (7-W.3)
- Use dictionary definitions (7-W.4)
- Use thesaurus entries (7-W.5)
- What does the punctuation suggest? (7-KK.1)
- Commas with nonrestrictive elements (7-KK.2)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (7-LL.1)
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters (7-LL.2)
- Commas with coordinate adjectives (7-LL.3)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (7-MM.1)
- Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (7-MM.2)
- Use dashes (7-NN.1)
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives (7-NN.2)
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately (7-NN.3)
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7.C.3.6 presentation techniques
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