LA7 curriculum meets following standards and benchmarks:

Vocabulary Acquisition:

• determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on reading content, choosing flexibly from a range to strategies.

• Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

• Use common and grade-appropriate affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word.

• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships.

• Explain the meaning of simple similes, metaphors and common idioms.

• Acquire and use appropriate academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

• Consult reference materials to clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

• Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

• Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions)

• Verify the preliminary determination of thDe meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in other resources).

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   Reading Comprehension:

• Annotate or cite textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

• Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

• Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

• Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.

• Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings.

• Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

• Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.

• Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.

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   Writing:​

• Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

• Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.

• Establish and maintain a formal style.

• Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.

• Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

• Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.

• Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

• Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.

• Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.

• Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.