| Responses to Text Prompts7th Grade | 
			
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.5.A* 
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								| establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.5.B* 
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								| generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.5.C 
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								| make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.5.E 
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								| make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.5.F 
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								| make inferences and use evidence to support understanding; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.5.G 
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								| evaluate details read to determine key ideas; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.5.I* 
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								| monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down. | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.A* 
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								| describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.B 
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								| write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.C 
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								| use text evidence to support an appropriate response; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.D 
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								| paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.E* 
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								| interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.F* 
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								| respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.G* 
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								| discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.H* 
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								| respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice;  | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.6.I* 
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								| reflect on and adjust responses as new evidence is presented. | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.7.A 
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								| infer multiple themes within and across texts using text evidence; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.7.B 
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								| analyze how characters' qualities influence events and resolution of the conflict; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.7.C 
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								| analyze plot elements, including the use of foreshadowing and suspense, to advance the plot; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.7.D 
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								| analyze how the setting influences character and plot development. | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.8.B 
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								| analyze the effect of rhyme scheme, meter and graphical elements such as punctuation and capitalization in poems across a variety of poetic forms; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.8.C 
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								| analyze how playwrights develop characters through dialogue and staging; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.8.D 
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								| analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including:
the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence;features such as references or acknowledgements; andorganizational patterns that support multiple topics, categories, and subcategories; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.8.E 
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								| analyze characteristics and structures of argumentative text by:
identifying the claim;explaining how the author uses various types of evidence and consideration of alternatives to support the argument;identifying the intended audience to the reader; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.8.F* 
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								| analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts. | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.9.A 
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								| explain the author's purpose and message within a text; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.9.B 
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								| analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.9.C 
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								| analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.9.D 
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								| describe how the author's use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes; | 
						
							
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												Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
											
											7.9.F 
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								| analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood, voice, and tone; 
 NOTE: Voice and tone are not eligible for assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.
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												Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
											
											ELA.7.C.1.3 
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								|  Write and support a claim using logical reasoning, relevant evidence from sources, elaboration, a logical organizational structure with varied transitions, and acknowledging at least one counterclaim | 
						
							
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												Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
											
											ELA.7.C.1.4 
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								|  Write expository texts to explain and analyze information from multiple sources, using relevant supporting details and a logical organizational pattern. | 
						
							
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												Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
											
											ELA.7.V.1.1 
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								| Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing. | 
						
			
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