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The student uses a variety of strategies to comprehend grade level text.
General Information
Number: LA.7.1.7
Title: Reading Comprehension
Type:
Standard
Subject: X-Reading/Language Arts (former standards - 2008) - Archived
Grade: 7
Strand: Reading Process
Related Benchmarks
This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
Related Access Points
This cluster includes the following access points.
Independent
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.
Supported
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.
Participatory
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.
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