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Grade 07 ELA - EC: E07.D.1.1.2

Grade 07 ELA - EC: E07.D.1.1.2

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

7th Grade

Course, Subject

English Language Arts

Activities

  1. Define syntax.  

  2. Identify examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences in a text.
  1. Determine how to combine simple sentences into complex or compound sentences.
  1. Develop a text based on a writing prompt and edit that text to include varied sentence structure.

  2. Create sentences using the generative sentence technique that demonstrate sentence variation.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Student defines syntax as the order of words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence.  Syntax is necessary to create varied sentence structure for interest and meaning.

  2. Students will identify simple sentences and complex sentences in a text.  Teacher can choose any passage or give examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences.  Student will demonstrate an understanding of:
  • Simple sentence - contains a subject and a verb with no dependent clause
  • Compound sentence – contains two or more sentences combined by a semi-colon or a comma and conjunction
  • Complex sentence – contains an independent and dependent clause
  1. Student will identify ways in which to combine simple sentences into complex or compound sentences.  Student can be given sentences or can evaluate sentences in a text.

  2. Student demonstrates an ability to develop a text in which simple, complex, and compound sentences are present.  Student demonstrates an ability to edit a text ensuring that there is an ample varied sentence structure to enhance meaning.

  3. Answers will vary.
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