Student Targets for Term 1
By the end of Term 1, a student should be able to
Correctly spell, punctuate, and capitalize the names of their teachers, school administrators, and counselor. (Correct capitalization of proper nouns.)
Correctly use and spell the Seventh Grade homophone pairs from the state core.
Understand and correctly use these terms: fiction, nonfiction, genre, novel, plot map (plot structure), exposition, conflict, point of view, narrator, character, setting.
Identify external text features in informational text: headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of contents.
Identify a purpose for inquiry, prepare and effectively ask questions, select an appropriate format to report information, effectively present information, work cooperatively with other students.
Determine audience and purpose for writing an autobiographical or narrative account.
Begin to create a clear, coherent, chronologically-sequenced incident, event, or situation with
simple reflection.
Begin to select and craft sensory details for that incident, event, or situation.
Revise and edit to improve writing.
• Use a variety of sentence beginnings and sentence lengths
• Use capitalization at the beginning of a sentence and use appropriate punctuation at the end
• Correctly capitalize proper nouns
