7th Grade ELA Targeted Standards (RI) Reading Information Strand Cluster: Key Ideas and Details
ELA-07.RI.02 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.
Student Learning Targets for Grade 7 ELA:
Knowledge Targets
I can define objective summary.
I can define central idea.
I can define analyze.
I can define unbiased.
Reasoning Targets
I can determine central ideas.
I can explain the development of two or more central ideas.
I can determine the necessary parts of an objective summary.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can use central ideas from text in an objective summary.
I can identify the supporting details that develop the central idea.
Product Targets
I can provide an objective summary.
I can write or present an objective summary.
Proficiency Scale for Grade 7 ELA:
Score
RI.7.2 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.
Sample Activity
4.0
A score of 3.5 or 4 is given when there is evidence of in-depth inferences of central ideas within an objective summary using above grade level text.
3.5
In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0
“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
The student can
determine two or more central ideas.
explain how two or more central ideas develop throughout the text.
write or present an objective summary.
Students will read the two editorials in the “Are People Paid Fairly” section beginning on pages 960-964. Students will write two unbiased summaries that identify (within the topic sentences) the central idea of each editorial. The development of the central ideas will be explained in the summaries.
2.5
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0
There are no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes as the student:
determines the central idea in each editorial.
However, the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes such as
explaining how the ideas are developed in the text.
summarizing the information in an unbiased way.
Students will read the two editorials in the “Are People Paid Fairly” section beginning on pages 960-964. Students can identify the central idea, but they cannot explain the development of the central ideas in the summaries written.
1.5
The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
0.5
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
