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Source: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Core Standards
Mastery Learning Standards
The required skills a student should display by the end of Grade 7.
Reading Informational Text

  • Key Ideas and Details

    PA-ELA.RI.7.1

    The student reads closely, draws inferences, and supports conclusions with evidence from informational text.

  • Craft and Structure

    PA-ELA.RI.7.2

    The student analyzes how informational text is organized and how authors use language to convey meaning.

  • Integration of Knowledge

    PA-ELA.RI.7.3

    The student integrates and evaluates information from multiple sources to build understanding of a topic.

  • Vocabulary Acquisition

    PA-ELA.RI.7.4

    The student acquires and uses grade-appropriate academic and domain-specific vocabulary.

  • Range of Reading

    PA-ELA.RI.7.5

    The student reads and comprehends complex informational text independently and proficiently.

Reading Literature

  • Key Ideas and Details

    PA-ELA.RL.7.1

    The student reads closely, draws inferences, and supports conclusions with evidence from literary text.

  • Craft and Structure

    PA-ELA.RL.7.2

    The student analyzes how literary text is organized and how authors use language and figurative meaning to convey meaning and tone.

  • Integration of Knowledge

    PA-ELA.RL.7.3

    The student compares and contrasts themes, ideas, and structures across literary works and across genres.

  • Vocabulary Acquisition

    PA-ELA.RL.7.4

    The student acquires and uses literary vocabulary, including figurative language and connotation.

  • Range of Reading

    PA-ELA.RL.7.5

    The student reads and comprehends complex literary text independently and proficiently.

Writing

  • Argumentative Writing

    PA-ELA.W.7.1

    The student writes argumentative pieces that support claims with valid reasoning and relevant, sufficient evidence.

  • Informative or Explanatory

    PA-ELA.W.7.2

    The student writes informative and explanatory texts that examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information clearly.

  • Narrative

    PA-ELA.W.7.3

    The student writes narratives that develop real or imagined experiences using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

  • Production and Process

    PA-ELA.W.7.4

    The student plans, drafts, revises, edits, and publishes writing that is appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

  • Conducting Research

    PA-ELA.W.7.5

    The student conducts short and sustained research projects based on focused questions and integrates information from multiple sources.

  • Conventions of Language

    PA-ELA.W.7.6

    The student demonstrates command of standard English grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Speaking and Listening

  • Comprehension and Collaboration

    PA-ELA.SL.7.1

    The student prepares for and participates effectively in discussions, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

  • Presentation of Knowledge

    PA-ELA.SL.7.2

    The student presents information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning.

  • Integrate Information

    PA-ELA.SL.7.3

    The student integrates information from diverse media and formats and evaluates speakers' points of view.

Assessments
The state tests students at this grade and subject take.
State Summative

PSSA ELA (Grades 3-8)

PSSA ELA is the spring summative test in reading and writing for grades 3 through 8. Students answer multiple-choice and constructed-response items aligned to PA Core ELA.

When given:
spring
Frequency:
annual
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