Targets for Term 4
Word Analysis and Vocabulary Development Identify the literal meanings and shades of meanings of words.
Shades of Meaning
Literal and Figurative Meanings of Words
Determine word meaning through definitions or explanation context clues.
Review our commonly confused words and our prefixes and suffixes:
Seventh Grade Confusing Words for Term 1 (and on) Spelling
Prefixes and Suffixes from the Seventh Grade Core for Term 2 (and on) Vocabulary
Comprehension of Informational Text
Continue to work on identifying and using external text features: headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of contents.
Continue to work on identifying internal text structures with their cue words and phrases: chronological, sequence, description.
Retell, paraphrase, and summarize -- review and extend understanding
Distinguish main idea and supporting details -- review and extend understanding
Finding the main idea:
For practice go to http://www.quia.com/pop/120023.html
Implied Main Idea -- Go to http://www.mrmooney.com/IdentifyingMainidea.html
Comprehension of Literary Text
Review elements of narrative and poetic text:
narrative plot structure, character's traits, setting, figurative language (simile and metaphor)
Continue to work on distinguishing topic from theme
identify main ideas and emotions in poetry
Continue to work on recognizing and reading various genres: Focus for March/April is on Science Fiction and Fantasy. During April/May students will select from a wide variety of genres.
Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels
Defining Fantasy and Science Fiction
Writing to Learn
Retell events in sequence -- review and extend understanding
Summarize information -- review and extend understanding
Connect text to self -- review and extend understanding
Extended Writing
Determine Audience -- review and extend understanding
Determine Purpose -- review and extend understanding
Relate an event in chronological sequence with simple reflection -- review and extend understanding
Use sensory details
Revision and Editing
Unifying topic -- review and extend understanding
beginning, middle, and end with transitions
tone and voice -- review and extend understanding
word choice
varied sentence beginnings and varied sentence lengthsgrade level spelling -- review
commas in a series -- review
possessives -- review
capitalizing sentence beginnings and proper nouns -- review
end punctuation on simple and compound sentences -- review
More on Inquiry -- review and extend understanding
accuracy and relevance of information -- review and extend understanding
fact and opinion -- review and extend understanding
avoiding plagiarism -- review and extend understanding
