Seventh Grade Language Arts Curriculum
In 7th grade language arts, students should be increasing their ability to analyze and synthesize information, strengthening their reading skills , and improving their writing proficiency.
On this page you will discover the key English language arts (ELA) concepts your 7th grader will need to know, learn more about the general 7th grade language arts objectives, and find out how Time4Learning’s seventh grade language arts curriculum helps homeschool families achieve their goals for this important year of education.
What Do 7th Graders Learn in Language Arts?
Seventh grade is a year of highly visible progress in reading, writing, and language arts. By the end of seventh grade, students should:
- Develop complex writing skills.
- Constructively critique their own and other’s writing.
- Apply punctuation, grammar, and syntax skills.
- Recognize and apply grade appropriate vocabulary.
- Read with fluency, with focus on comprehension.
- Compare books to their movie version and describe how the message is affected.
- Compare and contrast texts from different authors presenting the same topic.
- Write more in-depth research papers with citations and quotes from multiple sources.
The ideal curriculum will meet each of these 7th grade language arts standards while using multimedia and engaging projects to keep students motivated to learn.
Learn more about Time4Learning’s seventh grade language arts curriculum by checking out the 7th grade language arts scope and sequence and the 7th grade language arts lesson plans.
Reading Goals & Objectives for 7th grade
Middle schoolers are presented with increasingly complex texts in all subjects, so they must master reading skills that will bridge across all curriculum areas. A successful 7th grade language arts curriculum will focus on reading skills such as:
- Using strategies to construct the meaning of unfamiliar words
- Analyze elements and style of different genres of literature
- Use text evidence to analyze, infer, and synthesize ideas.
- Determining the theme of a text as well as the author’s purpose
- Giving an objective summary of a text
- Identifying and distinguishing between cause and effect in literature
Get more detailed information on our homeschool reading curriculum.
Writing Goals/Objectives for 7th grade
In the middle school years, students are learning how to adapt their written communication to the intended audience, task, or purpose. This involves many different skills including:
- Learning how to write an analytical argument and support it with claims and evidence
- Organizing informative/explanatory writing by definition, classification, cause and effect, comparison and contrast
- Developing topics with relevant content, language, and style
- Conducting short research projects to answer questions
- Quoting and paraphrasing information from sources
Time4Learning’s 7th grade language arts activities incorporate instruction, practice and assessment on each of these core writing objectives.
Grammar Goals/Objectives for 7th Grade
Being able to communicate effectively in writing requires a mastery of grammar and mechanics. Practically, that translates into doing better in school, getting the jobs we seek, and clarifying our points of view. In seventh grade, grammar instruction focuses on concepts such as:
- Using prepositional phrases and clauses correctly
- Understanding and use of all parts of speech, including plural nouns, possessive nouns, verb tenses, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and conjunctions
- Applying the rules of convention for capitalization and punctuation
- Recognition of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Learn more on our homeschool curriculum grammar page.
Why Choose Time4Learning’s 7th Grade Language Arts Homeschool Curriculum?
Time4Learning’s 7th grade online homeschool curriculum helps students master each of the above reading, writing, and grammar skills plus so many more. The comprehensive collection of almost 200 video, multimedia activities, and interactive assessments ensures that student instruction is varied and engaging.
Some of the reasons that homeschool families choose Time4Learning’s language arts curriculum for 7th grade include:
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