Manitoba
Skills available for Manitoba grade 7 English language arts curriculum
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Actions
Language as Sense Making
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Access, use, build, and refine schema.
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Select from and use a variety of strategies.
- Determine the main idea of a passage (7-A.1)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Read and understand informational passages (7-G.1)
- Trace an argument (7-G.2)
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects (7-I.1)
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest (7-J.1)
- Organize information by main idea (7-J.2)
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (7-J.3)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (7-K.1)
- Choose evidence to support a claim (7-K.2)
- Identify supporting details in informational texts (7-K.3)
- Identify supporting details in literary texts (7-K.4)
- Identify counterclaims (7-K.5)
- Use personification (7-L.1)
- Use parallel structure (7-M.1)
- Remove redundant words or phrases (7-M.2)
- Use the correct frequently confused word (7-M.3)
- Correct errors with frequently confused words (7-M.4)
- Correct errors with signs (7-M.5)
- Suggest appropriate revisions (7-M.6)
- Identify plagiarism (7-N.1)
- Words with pre- (7-O.1)
- Words with re- (7-O.2)
- Words with sub- (7-O.3)
- Words with mis- (7-O.4)
- Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non- (7-O.5)
- Words with -ful (7-O.6)
- Words with -less (7-O.7)
- Words with -able and -ible (7-O.8)
- 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)
- Choose the synonym (7-Q.1)
- Choose the antonym (7-Q.2)
- Use the correct homophone (7-R.1)
- Which definition matches the sentence? (7-R.2)
- Which sentence matches the definition? (7-R.3)
- Describe the difference between related words (7-S.1)
- Positive and negative connotation (7-S.2)
- Analogies (7-T.1)
- Analogies: challenge (7-T.2)
- 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)
- Alphabetical order (7-W.1)
- Use guide words (7-W.2)
- Use dictionary entries (7-W.3)
- Use dictionary definitions (7-W.4)
- Use thesaurus entries (7-W.5)
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Be aware of and articulate the ways that one engages with text.
- Determine the main idea of a passage (7-A.1)
- Determine the themes of short stories (7-B.2)
- Identify the author's purpose (7-C.1)
- Compare passages for tone (7-C.3)
- Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (7-E.5)
- Identify supporting details in informational texts (7-K.3)
- Identify supporting details in literary texts (7-K.4)
- Words with pre- (7-O.1)
- Words with re- (7-O.2)
- Words with sub- (7-O.3)
- Words with mis- (7-O.4)
- Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non- (7-O.5)
- Words with -ful (7-O.6)
- Words with -less (7-O.7)
- Words with -able and -ible (7-O.8)
- 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)
- Choose the synonym (7-Q.1)
- Choose the antonym (7-Q.2)
- Use the correct homophone (7-R.1)
- Which definition matches the sentence? (7-R.2)
- Which sentence matches the definition? (7-R.3)
- Describe the difference between related words (7-S.1)
- Positive and negative connotation (7-S.2)
- Analogies (7-T.1)
- Analogies: challenge (7-T.2)
- 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)
Language as System
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Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions (e.g., form, genre, grammar, register, punctuation, elements of design, spelling, legibility).
- Identify the author's purpose (7-C.1)
- Which sentence is more formal? (7-C.2)
- Compare passages for tone (7-C.3)
- 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)
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest (7-J.1)
- Organize information by main idea (7-J.2)
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (7-J.3)
- Use personification (7-L.1)
- Use parallel structure (7-M.1)
- Remove redundant words or phrases (7-M.2)
- Use the correct frequently confused word (7-M.3)
- Correct errors with frequently confused words (7-M.4)
- Correct errors with signs (7-M.5)
- Suggest appropriate revisions (7-M.6)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (7-X.1)
- Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence (7-X.2)
- Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence (7-X.3)
- Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence (7-X.4)
- 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 appositives and appositive phrases (7-Y.2)
- 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)
- Form and use plurals: review (7-Z.1)
- Form and use plurals of compound nouns (7-Z.2)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (7-Z.3)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (7-Z.4)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (7-Z.5)
- Identify pronouns and their antecedents (7-AA.1)
- Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent (7-AA.2)
- Identify vague pronoun references (7-AA.3)
- Identify all of the possible antecedents (7-AA.4)
- Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person (7-AA.5)
- Choose between subject and object pronouns (7-BB.1)
- Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (7-BB.2)
- Compound subjects and objects with pronouns (7-BB.3)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (7-BB.4)
- Use reflexive pronouns (7-BB.5)
- Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive? (7-BB.6)
- Use relative pronouns: who and whom (7-BB.7)
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (7-BB.8)
- Identify transitive and intransitive verbs (7-CC.1)
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns (7-CC.2)
- Correct errors with subject-verb agreement (7-DD.1)
- Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement (7-DD.2)
- Use the correct verb – with compound subjects (7-DD.3)
- Irregular past tense: review (7-EE.1)
- Simple past, present and future tense: review (7-EE.2)
- Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense (7-EE.3)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (7-EE.4)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (7-EE.5)
- Identify adjectives (7-FF.1)
- Order adjectives (7-FF.2)
- Identify adverbs (7-FF.3)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (7-FF.4)
- Is the word an adjective or adverb? (7-FF.5)
- Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives (7-FF.6)
- Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst (7-FF.7)
- Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs (7-FF.8)
- Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst (7-FF.9)
- Identify prepositional phrases (7-GG.1)
- Is it a direct object or an indirect object? (7-HH.1)
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (7-II.1)
- Misplaced modifiers with pictures (7-JJ.1)
- Select the misplaced or dangling modifier (7-JJ.2)
- Are the modifiers used correctly? (7-JJ.3)
- 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)
- Correct capitalization errors (7-OO.1)
- Capitalizing titles (7-OO.2)
- Formatting titles (7-PP.1)
- Formatting and capitalizing titles: review (7-PP.2)
- Formatting quotations and dialogue (7-PP.3)
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Identify, analyze, and apply understandings of whole-part-whole relationships (e.g., function and relationship of parts within a whole design, cueing systems, fluency, word study).
- 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)
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest (7-J.1)
- Organize information by main idea (7-J.2)
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (7-J.3)
- Use personification (7-L.1)
- Words with pre- (7-O.1)
- Words with re- (7-O.2)
- Words with sub- (7-O.3)
- Words with mis- (7-O.4)
- Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non- (7-O.5)
- Words with -ful (7-O.6)
- Words with -less (7-O.7)
- Words with -able and -ible (7-O.8)
- 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)
- Choose the synonym (7-Q.1)
- Choose the antonym (7-Q.2)
- Use the correct homophone (7-R.1)
- Which definition matches the sentence? (7-R.2)
- Which sentence matches the definition? (7-R.3)
- Describe the difference between related words (7-S.1)
- Positive and negative connotation (7-S.2)
- Analogies (7-T.1)
- Analogies: challenge (7-T.2)
- 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)
Language as Exploration and Design
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Research and study topics and ideas.
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Interpret and integrate information and ideas from multiple texts and sources.
- Determine the main idea of a passage (7-A.1)
- Identify the author's purpose (7-C.1)
- Which sentence is more formal? (7-C.2)
- Compare passages for tone (7-C.3)
- 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)
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest (7-J.1)
- Organize information by main idea (7-J.2)
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (7-J.3)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (7-K.1)
- Choose evidence to support a claim (7-K.2)
- Identify supporting details in informational texts (7-K.3)
- Identify supporting details in literary texts (7-K.4)
- Identify counterclaims (7-K.5)
- Identify plagiarism (7-N.1)
- Formatting titles (7-PP.1)
- Formatting and capitalizing titles: review (7-PP.2)
- Formatting quotations and dialogue (7-PP.3)
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Manage information and ideas.
- 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)
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest (7-J.1)
- Organize information by main idea (7-J.2)
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (7-J.3)
- Use personification (7-L.1)
- Describe the difference between related words (7-S.1)
- Positive and negative connotation (7-S.2)
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Invent, take risks, and reflect to create possibilities.
Language as Power and Agency
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Recognize and analyze inequities, viewpoints, and bias in texts and ideas.
- 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)
- Analyze short stories (7-F.1)
- Read and understand informational passages (7-G.1)
- Trace an argument (7-G.2)
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects (7-I.1)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (7-K.1)
- Describe the difference between related words (7-S.1)
- Positive and negative connotation (7-S.2)
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Investigate complex moral and ethical issues and conflicts.
- Determine the main idea of a passage (7-A.1)
- Match the quotations with their themes (7-B.1)
- Determine the themes of short stories (7-B.2)
- Analyze short stories (7-F.1)
- Read and understand informational passages (7-G.1)
- Trace an argument (7-G.2)
- Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects (7-I.1)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (7-K.1)
- Choose evidence to support a claim (7-K.2)
- Identify supporting details in informational texts (7-K.3)
- Identify supporting details in literary texts (7-K.4)
- Identify counterclaims (7-K.5)
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Contemplate the actions that can be taken, consider alternative viewpoints, and contribute other perspectives.
- Compare two texts with different genres (7-H.1)
- Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects (7-I.1)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (7-K.1)
- Choose evidence to support a claim (7-K.2)
- Identify supporting details in informational texts (7-K.3)
- Identify supporting details in literary texts (7-K.4)
- Identify counterclaims (7-K.5)