Standards Map

English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 7

Strand - Writing

Cluster - Text Types and Purposes

[W.7.2] - Write informative/explanatory texts (e.g., essays, oral reports, biographical feature articles) to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

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Resources:

• Analysis (Analyze)
  In general, a careful examination of the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another; in language arts, a study of how words, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas, or sections of a text affect its meaning.
• Explanation
  Is designed to make a subject, concept, or process clear and understandable to the intended audience using one or more of the following methods: identification, definition, classification, illustration, comparison, and/or analysis
• Grade 7 Annotated Response to a Text-Based Question
  
• Grade 7 Unmarked Response to a Text-Based Question
  
• Informational text
  In this document, nonfiction in narrative or non-narrative form.

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Predecessor Standards:

• W.6.2
  Write informative/explanatory texts (e.g., essays, oral reports, biographical feature articles) to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

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Successor Standards:

• W.8.2
  Write informative/explanatory texts (e.g., essays, oral reports, biographical feature articles) to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

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Same Level Standards:

• W.7.4
  Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in Writing Standards 1-3.)