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Jefferson County Schools Language Arts The Tennessee English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for Kindergarten through Grade 12 was adopted by the State Board of Education on December 5, 1996. "The framework includes the Content Strands and Learning Expectations necessary to insure K-12 Tennessee students develop the language skills needed to succeed in school, in the workplace, and in their lives." Grade 7 The Terra Nova Complete Battery assesses students in seventh grade (Level 17). |
| Genres |
| The Genres Unit includes identifying and comparing key characteristics of literary genres, as designated by a work's subject, theme, style, and time period. Some examples of genres are science fiction, poetry, drama, British literature, and multicultural literature. The Genres Unit includes identifying and comparing key characteristics of literary genres, as designated by a work's subject, theme, style, and time period. Some examples of genres are science fiction, poetry, drama, British literature, and multicultural literature. |
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Author Intention: Evaluate
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) evaluate the author's purpose in a given work.
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Author Style/Technique: Tone/Evaluate
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) evaluate how an author's tone influences the text.
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Author Technique: Nonfiction/Analyze
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) analyze how authors use the elements of nonfiction to achieve their purposes.
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Comprehend: Differences
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) understand the differences of various genres.
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Point of View: Evaluate
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) evaluate how author point of view influences reading materials.
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| Information Processing |
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Study /Research Skills: Refine
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) refine study/research skills by using resources in various formats including encyclopedias, card/electronic catalogs, almanacs, periodicals, Internet, non-fiction books, CD-ROMs, biographical sketches, letters, diaries, periodicals, dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses, and other word-referenced materials.
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Study/Research Skills: Refine
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) enhance study/research skills by distinguishing between primary/secondary sources, use skimming and scanning, develop and use notes, analyze various types of media and their impact on daily life, recognize that two equally reliable resources may present material from different perspectives, analyze surveys and polls, and select and use a variety of resources to develop a research paper that includes a title page, outline, notes, and a bibliography.
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| Language Expressions |
| The Language Expressions Unit focuses on language conventions, structure, usage, and language study. It also addresses parts of speech, figures of speech, syntax, paragraph and sentence structure, word agreement, modifiers, and grammar. The Language Expressions Unit focuses on language conventions, structure, usage, and language study. It also addresses parts of speech, figures of speech, syntax, paragraph and sentence structure, word agreement, modifiers, and grammar. |
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Appositives/Infinitives:Identify Correct
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the correct use of appositives/appositive phrases and infinitives/infinitive phrases within context.
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Clauses: Use Correctly
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) identify and place correctly within a sentence adjective, adverb, and noun clauses.
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Declarative: Change to Question
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) change a declarative sentence into a question.
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Devices: Us to Clarify Relationships
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) use subordination, apposition, coordination, prepositional phrases, phrases words and phrases, and other devices to indicate clear relationships.
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Fragment/Run-On: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify incomplete sentences including fragments and run-ons.
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Interjections/Conjunctions: Use Correct
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) use conjunctions(e.g., coordinating, correlative subordinating conjunctions to combine words, phrases, clauses and sentences) and interjections appropriately.
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Modifier: Misplaced/Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify a misplaced modifier in a sentence.
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Noun: Forms/Edit
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) edit writing for noun forms.
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Parallel Structure: Writing/Edit
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) edit writing for appropriate parallel structure.
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Pronoun: Case/Edit
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) edit written works for correct use of pronouns.
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Prepositions /Phrases:Identify Correct
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the correct use of prepositions and prepositional phrases within context.
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Run-on Sentence: Correct
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e.,conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or separate elements) within context.
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Sentence Combining
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) combine multiple complete sentences into one complete sentence.
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Sentence Combining Techniques: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, introductory phrases and/or clauses).
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Sentences: Sentence Types
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) recognize and differentiate among simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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Sentence Structure: Identify Complete
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify complete sentences.
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Sentence Structure: Recognize Errors
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize and correct errors in sentence structure.
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Sentence Structure: Writing Purpose
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the sentence structure most appropriate for different writing purposes.
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Subject/Predicate: Identify
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) identify the complete subject and complete predicate of interrogative and other inverted sentence patterns.
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Subject-Verb: Agreement
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use correct subject-verb agreement.
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Usage: Identify Correct
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., correct/linking, correct/irregular,agreement, Perfect tenses, verb phrases), adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative, superlative, and adjective clauses), adverbs (i.e., comparative/superlative), and comparative and comparative (i.e., coordinating, correlative, subordinating) within context.
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Usage Errors: Recognize
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize usage errors occurring within context (e.g., double negatives, troublesome words, to, too, two; their, there, they're; lie, lay; sit, set;).
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| Language Mechanics |
| The Language Mechanics Unit includes comprehending and applying the rules that govern punctuation and capitalization when writing and editing written works. The Language Mechanics Unit includes comprehending and applying the rules that govern punctuation and capitalization when writing and editing written works. |
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Apostrophe: Use
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) correctly use apostrophes in sentences (including singular and plural possessives).
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Capitalization: Use Correctly
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use capitalization correctly including proper nouns, proper adjectives, beginning of sentences, parts of a letter, city/state, titles, and titles of books.
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Colons: Identify Correct Use
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the correct use of colons (i.e., business letters, preceding a list of items) within context.
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Commas: Identify Correct Use
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, and interrupters) within context.
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Endmark: Use
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use endmarks correctly.
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Quotation Marks/Commas: Choose Correct
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas (i.e., in direct quotations, with explanatory material within the quote, proper use with end marks).
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Punctuation: Letters/Literary Titles
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the correct use of punctuation in a letters and literary titles.
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| Listening/Speaking |
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Behaviors: Interpretive Skills
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) demonstrate developmentally appropriate interpretive listening comprehension skills.
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Behaviors: Literal Skills
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) demonstrate developmentally appropriate literal listening comprehension skills.
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Oral Language/Listening Skills: Develop
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) model active listening, adhere to rules for conversation, formulate and respond to questions, organize and have information, stories, experience, ideas and feelings, participate in creative responses to text (e.g., dramatization, speeches), deliver an oral presentation using multiple information sources and visual aids for information, use proper stress, pitch, and juncture, and use a variety of non-verbal communication techniques (e.g., posture, gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, eye contact).
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| Reading Operations |
| The Reading Operations Unit includes constructing meaning from fiction and non-fiction selections at comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and judgment levels of understanding. It includes skills which address identifying, discussing, and comparing both concrete and abstract elements of selections (setting, plot, characterization, genre, historical period, theme, tone, moral message, and psychological and political implications). The Reading Operations Unit includes constructing meaning from fiction and non-fiction selections at comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and judgment levels of understanding. It includes skills which address identifying, discussing, and comparing both concrete and abstract elements of selections (setting, plot, characterization, genre, historical period, theme, tone, moral message, and psychological and political implications). |
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Analyze: Relationships/Reading Materials
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) analyze cause and effect relationships in reading materials.
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Analyze: Story Elements
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) analyze story elements in reading materials including characters, theme( implied and/or stated), setting, and plot development.
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Cause/Effect: Understanding
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) understand the relationship between cause and effect.
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Character Traits: Identify Author's Way
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify at least two ways by which an author reveals character traits in a given passage (Learning Accomplishment includes words, speech, action, thoughts, narrator, interactions, motivations).
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Compare/Contrast: Reading Materials
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) compare and contrast reading materials.
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Comprehension: Display Skills
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) display comprehension skills.
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Content Areas: Develop Skills
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) develop vocabulary specific to content areas, use available text features to locate information (e.g., maps, charts, timelines, graphics, footnotes, indexes, glossaries, tables of content, captions), use comprehension and self-corrections skills, interact with the text,and information the reliability of sources.
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Correct Word: Select
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) select the correct word or phrase to complete an analogy using synonyms, antonyms, categories, subcategories, whole/part, functions, verb forms, and rhymes.
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Critical Thinking: Reading Materials
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) critically examine reading materials.
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Derive Meaning: After Reading
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) derive meaning after reading by indicating and analyzing the sequence of events, discussing similarities and differences in events and characters, finding contextual support for responses to questions, for assistance in formulating ideas and opinions, and for supporting personal responses, and make connections among various literary genres nd print and non-print texts.
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Derive Meaning: While Reading
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) use metacognitive and self-monitoring strategies while reading (pausing, rereading, miscues, consulting other sources, reading ahead), creating mental pictures, verifying or modifying strategies as information is gained, explore ways to interact with text (e.g., make the text, use post-it notes, ask questions, make comments).
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Draw Conclusion: Hypothesis
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) develop a hypothesis based on a reading selection.
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Draw Conclusion: Reading Material
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) draw conclusions about reading materials.
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Emergent Reading: Understanding Sentence
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) understand the meaning of a sentence.
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Fact/Opinion
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) distinguish between fact and opinion.
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Figures of Speech: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole within context (Learning Accomplishment includes imagery, idioms, puns).
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Fluency, Expression, Accuracy: Develop
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) demonstrate the ability to read fluently with expression, accuracy, and poise from a variety of texts (e.g., paired reading, choral reading, read-alongs), participate in guided reading, use appropriate reading, expression and rate, adjust speed based on purpose for reading, and read independently on a daily basis.
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Foreign Phrases: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify commonly used foreign phrases (e.g., bon voyage, mi casa es su casa, bon jour, hasta la vista).
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Generalization: Passage
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) make a generalization based on passage elements.
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Graphic Feature: Use
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use common graphical features to increase understanding of reading materials.
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Inference: Information
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) make inferences from information in written material.
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Information: Derive from Text Features
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) derive information from the following text features: timelines, graphs, keywords, headings, and subheadings within context (Learning Accomplishment includes title page, Accomplishment, table of contents, epilogue, glossary, appendix, index, key words, graphics, pictures, captions, sidebars. subheadings, and footnotes).
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Literary Characteristics: Determine
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) determine the common characteristics of short stories, novels, poetry, drama, and non-fiction.
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Literary Device: Techniques/Analyze
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) analyze literary techniques.
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Literary Genres: Explore Characteristics
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) experience various literary genres(e.g., short stories, novels, plays, legends, poetry, autobiography/biography, non-fiction, music, film, videos, documentaries, visual and performing arts), identify elements found in the exposition of print/non-print materials (i.e., introduction of characters, setting, conflict), identify/explain the rising action, climax, falling action of a story, and identify words and phrases used by the author to phrases moods or establish tones.
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Literary Genres Explore Characteristics
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) use deductive reasoning to extend understanding, explore differences among non-fiction materials (e.g., letters, memoirs, diaries, journals, autobiographies, biographies, and various texts), explore the concept of irony, and summarize and paraphrase selected passages/film clips.
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Literary Strategies: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify symbolism, flashback, and foreshadowing within context.
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Main Idea: Text/Analyze
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) analyze a text's main ideas.
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Motivation for Reading: Maintain
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) maintain a motivation for reading by visiting libraries/media centers, book fairs, book stores, read daily from self-selected materials using personal criteria for selection, relate literary experiences (discussions, circles, writing, oral presentations, artistic expression), experience literature that reflects a diverse society and encourages tolerance, and maintain a personal reading list or journal.
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Persuasive: Bias/Evaluate
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) evaluate authors' biases in reading materials.
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Plot: Climax
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize plot climax in reading selections locating elements on a graphic organizer).
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Poetry/Prose/Bio/Autobio: Distinguish
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) distinguish between poetry and prose and between biography/autobiography.
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Point of View: Recognize
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize the first person point of view.
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Predict Outcome: Information
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) make predictions from information in written material.
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Prereading Strategies: Use
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) use previously learned strategies (e.g., skimming, scanning), explain the significance of the reading selection to learning and to life, define reading words to be encountered in the text, and relate text to prior experiences, opinions, historical knowledge, current events, and previously read print and non-print texts.
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Print/Non-Print: Identify Differences
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) identify the differences among various print and non-print formats (i.e. prose, poetry, newspaper/magazine, letters, drama, drama manuals, screenplays, drama, works of art, and textbooks).
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Prior Knowledge: Understand Text
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) use prior knowledge to understand texts.
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Propaganda Techniques: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify examples of propaganda techniques (i.e., bandwagon, loaded works, testimonials).
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Questions: Aid Understanding
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) generate questions to aid understanding while reading.
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Reading Behaviors: Apply
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) apply meaning while reading.
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Reading Behaviors: Monitoring Reading
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) monitor reading comprehension.
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Reading Behaviors: Initial Understanding
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) demonstrate an initial understanding of a text.
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Reality/Fantasy
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) distinguish between reality and fantasy.
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Resources: Rank
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) rank a given set of resources according to reliability.
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Response: Connection/Text
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) make connections among reading materials.
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Sequence: Use/Understand
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use sequence to understand reading materials.
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Sound Devices: Analyze Effect
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) analyze the effect within context of the sound devices of onomatopoeia, alliteration, accent, rhyme, and repetition.
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Sound Devices: Identify Examples
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify examples of sound devices (e.g., rhyme, alliteration, slant rhyme, repetition, and internal rhyme) in context (Learning Accomplishment includes poems, music lyrics, books on tape, read alouds, and analyzing patterns of rhyme and rhythm).
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Strategies: Extend Information
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) extend information beyond passage ideas while reading.
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Strategies: Vocabulary/Using
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use vocabulary to understand what is read.
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Structure: Increase Understanding
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use text structure to increase understanding of reading materials.
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Summary: Passage
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) summarize a reading passage in his/her own words.
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Support: Examine
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) examine the adequacy of support in reading materials.
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Synthesizing: Information/Multiple Texts
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) demonstrate skills for constructing meaning by synthesizing information from multiple written texts.
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Techniques: Persuasive/Analyze
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) analyze persuasive techniques.
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Time Period/Cultural Words: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize and identify words within context that reveal particular time periods and cultures.
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Variety of Purposes: Read
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) read independently for a variety of purposes including for literary experience. to gain information. to perform a task, for enjoyment, to expand vocabulary,and to build fluency.
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Word: Environment
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize words found in the immediate environment.
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| Spelling |
| The Spelling Unit includes studying language and word structure knowledge to discern the correct spelling of words. It includes skills related to editing passages for correct spelling by making connections between spelling, meaning, and structure. |
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Consonant: Silent/Double
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) spell words with silent consonants and double letters correctly.
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Correctly/Incorrectly Spelling: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context.
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Irregular Words
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) correctly write words with irregular spelling.
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Prefixes/Suffixes
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) correctly spell words that have a prefix and/or suffix.
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Schwa Sound
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) correctly spell words which have a schwa sound.
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Spell: Correctly
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) spell high frequency, commonly misspelled grade level words, and content specific words correctly.
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Spell: Correctly
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) spell affixes correctly (e.g., il+legible=illegible), proofread and edit for accuracy of spelling, determine correct spelling of words utilizing electronic devices and print tools (e.g., spell check, dictionaries, word walls, charts), and maintain a consciousness toward correct spelling across the content area.
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Spelling: Contractions
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) spell words with contractions correctly.
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Spelling: Variant
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) correctly spell words with variant spellings.
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Strategies: Word Parts
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use knowledge of similar word parts to spell words correctly.
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Structural Units: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the correct spelling of structural units.
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Variety of Words: Spell
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) correctly spell root words, affixes, compound words, and homonyms correctly.
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Vowels: Spell Correctly
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) correctly spell words with long/short vowels. digraphs, diphthongs and where the vowel sound is influenced by the letter "r".
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| Vocabulary |
| The Vocabulary Unit includes studying and applying knowledge of word structure (bases and affixes), concrete analogies, synonyms, antonyms, and syllables. It also includes applying knowledge of connotation, denotation and words with multiple levels of meaning. The Vocabulary Unit includes studying and applying knowledge of word structure (bases and affixes), concrete analogies, synonyms, antonyms, and syllables. It also includes applying knowledge of connotation, denotation and words with multiple levels of meaning. |
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Grade Level/Content Area Words: Use
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize and use grade level and/or content specific vocabulary within context.
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Reading Vocabulary: Expand
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) listen to literature, participate in class discussions, read self-selected and assigned texts, read from a variety of genres and modes, expand knowledge of root words, words with suffixes, and determine meaning by using context clues, dictionaries, electronic sources, glossaries.
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Reading Vocabulary: Expand
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) analyze and incorporate grade appropriate synonyms, homonyms, and multi-meaning words into reading vocabulary, use mnemonic devices, foster word consciousness (e.g., word play, word walls, graphic organizers,nuances of words, new and words words), study etymology and semantic change, determine the correct meaning/usage of multiple meaning words, define connotation and denotation, and discover ways by which a language acquires new words (e.g., borrowing from other languages, compounding words).
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Unknown Words: Decode
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) determine the meaning of unknown words and/or multiple meaning words using context clues (Learning Accomplishment includes expanding knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes, and using previously learned strategies to decode words).
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Unknown Words: Replace
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) replace unknown words in context with appropriate synonyms or antonyms.
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Strategies: Meaning/Category
The learner will be able to ESSENTIAL) identify and determine the meaning of a word by using knowledge of categories.
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Appropriate: Select
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) select words appropriately.
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Prefix/Suffix: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the prefix and/or suffix in a given word.
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Synonym/Antonym: Define
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) define synonyms and antonyms.
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Matching: Word with Meaning
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the definition of a vocabulary word.
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Base Word: Root/Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify root words.
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Context: Word Meaning
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) infer word meaning from context.
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Multiple Meaning: Recognize
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize multiple meaning words.
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Syllabication: Identify Number
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify the number of syllables in a given word.
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Strategies: Variety
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) apply a variety of vocabulary strategies.
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| Word Analysis |
| The Word Analysis Unit focuses on examining word structure and sound. It includes topics such as consonants, vowels, rhyming, and word building. |
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Compound Word/ Components:Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify compound words and identify both words in a compound word.
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Consonant/ Blends/Digraphs: Identify
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify consonants, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs.
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Contraction: Meaning
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize the meaning of contractions.
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Orally Read: Identify Word/Sight
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) identify an orally read sight word.
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