| Code |
Description |
| LA.7.1.7.1: | The student will use background knowledge of subject and related content areas, prereading strategies, graphic representations, and knowledge of text structure to make and confirm complex predictions of content, purpose, and organization of a reading selection; |
| LA.7.1.7.2: | The student will analyze the authors purpose (e.g., to persuade, inform, entertain, explain) and perspective in a variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning; |
| LA.7.1.7.3: | The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details; |
| LA.7.1.7.4: | The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text; |
| LA.7.1.7.5: | The student will analyze a variety of text structures (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, chronological order, argument/support, lists) and text features (main headings with subheadings) and explain their impact on meaning in text; |
| LA.7.1.7.6: | The student will analyze and evaluate similar themes or topics by different authors across a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections; |
| LA.7.1.7.7: | The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple texts; and |
| LA.7.1.7.8: | The student will use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-appropriate text when self-monitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, note-making, summarizing, using graphic and semantic organizers, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources. |
This cluster includes the following access points.
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LA.7.1.7.In.a: | Use background knowledge of the subject, guided previewing strategies, graphic representations, and text features (e.g. table of contents, headings, simple charts and maps, text styles) to make and |
| LA.7.1.7.In.b: | Confirm predictions of content and purpose of reading selections. |
| LA.7.1.7.In.c: | Identify the author’s purpose (e.g. to inform, entertain, persuade) in a variety of texts and use the information to construct meaning. |
| LA.7.1.7.In.d: | Determine the main idea or essential message in text through identifying relevant details and facts. |
| LA.7.1.7.In.e: | Identify cause and effect relationships in stories and informational text. |
| LA.7.1.7.In.f: | Identify text structures (e.g. comparison/contrast, explicit cause and effect relationships, sequence of events) in narrative and informational text using strategies, including graphic organizers. |
| LA.7.1.7.In.g: | Identify the theme in fiction or nonfiction selections. |
| LA.7.1.7.In.h: | Identify similarities and differences in characters, actions, or settings in two texts. |
| LA.7.1.7.In.i: | Use strategies to repair comprehension, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, using graphic organizers, and requesting assistance for clarification. |
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LA.7.1.7.Su.a: | Use background knowledge of the subject and text features (e.g. illustrations, title, table of contents) to make and confirm predictions of content of reading selections. |
| LA.7.1.7.Su.b: | Identify the author’s purpose (e.g., tell a story, give information, explain how to do something, elicit feelings) in texts. |
| LA.7.1.7.Su.c: | Determine the main idea or essential message in text through identifying relevant details and events, including but not limited to who, what, where, when, and what happened. |
| LA.7.1.7.Su.d: | Identify similarities and differences in characters, settings, and actions, and explicit cause/effect relationships in stories and informational text using strategies, including but not limited to simple graphic organizers. |
| LA.7.1.7.Su.e: | Identify fiction and nonfiction selections based on a theme (e.g. bravery, friendship). |
| LA.7.1.7.Su.f: | Use strategies to repair comprehension, including but not limited to re-reading, checking context clues, predicting, using graphic organizers, and checking own understanding when reminded. |
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LA.7.1.7.Pa.a: | Identify persons, objects, actions, or events in read-aloud narrative and informational text used in daily activities. |
| LA.7.1.7.Pa.b: | Respond accurately and consistently to pictures or symbols paired with words used to guide classroom activities. |
| LA.7.1.7.Pa.c: | Recognize details in read-aloud stories and informational text. |
| LA.7.1.7.Pa.d: | Use pictures or symbols paired with words to achieve desired cause/effect outcomes in daily classroom activities. |
| LA.7.1.7.Pa.e: | Recognize familiar read-aloud stories with a theme (e.g., caring). |
| LA.7.1.7.Pa.f: | Use resources when necessary to clarify meaning of pictures, symbols, or words in classroom activities. |
