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ELA: Grade 7 - LISTENING
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Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
	7.1.L.1	Identify essential information for note taking	Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
	7.1.L.2	Listen in planning or brainstorming sessions with peers	Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor My Life/Your Life: A Look at Your Parents' Past No More Bullying: Understanding the Problem, Building Bully-Free Environments Learning Clubs: Motivating Middle School Readers and Writers
	7.1.L.3	Listen to and follow multistep directions that provide information about a task or assignment
	7.1.L.4	Recall significant ideas and details, and describe the relationships between and among them	Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
	7.1.L.5	Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant oral information	Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
	7.1.L.6	Make, confirm, or revise predictions by distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant oral information
	7.1.L.7	Draw conclusions and make inferences on the basis of explicit information	A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart" Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You Using Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in "Night"
	7.1.L.8	Recognize that the speaker�s voice quality and delivery impact communication, with assistance	My Life/Your Life: A Look at Your Parents' Past
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Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
	7.2.L.1	Interpret and respond to texts on a variety of themes from different genres and authors	Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry Introducing Shakespeare: The Bard's English Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
	7.2.L.2	Listen to class lectures, and small group and classroom discussions, to comprehend and interpret literary text	Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character Climbing Mount Everest: Then and Now Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past Girls Read: Online Literature Circles Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You Using Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in "Night" When I Was Young In... A Literature to Language Experience The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
	7.2.L.3	Recognize different levels of meaning in presentations
	7.2.L.4	Identify how the author's choice of words/characterization and use of other literary devices affect the listener's interpretation of the oral text, with assistance	Introducing Shakespeare: The Bard's English The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
	7.2.L.5	Identify how the poet�s use of repetition, rhythm, and rhyming patterns affects the listener�s interpretation of poetry, with assistance	Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
	7.2.L.6	Recognize that the meaning of the spoken word can vary on the basis of tone, volume, pitch, and rate	Give Them a Hand: Promoting Positive Interaction in Literature Circles Using Classic Poetry to Challenge and Enrich Students' Writing
	7.2.L.7	Recognize how the posture, facial expression, and gestures of the speaker or actor are used to evoke a response	Give Them a Hand: Promoting Positive Interaction in Literature Circles Using Classic Poetry to Challenge and Enrich Students' Writing
	7.2.L.8	Identify questions of personal importance and interest and seek to address them by listening to and interpreting films, plays, and dramatic readings
	7.2.L.9	Recognize social, historical, and cultural features in presentations of literary texts, with assistance	Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past Introducing Shakespeare: The Bard's English When I Was Young In... A Literature to Language Experience
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Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
	7.3.L.1	Form an opinion or judgment about the validity and accuracy of information, ideas, opinions, themes, and experiences	Listening to History Accountable Book Clubs: Focused Discussions Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
	7.3.L.2	Recognize multiple levels of meaning
	7.3.L.3	Use personal experiences and knowledge, and the opinions of speakers in school and community settings, to make judgments from a variety of perspectives
	7.3.L.4	Recognize persuasive techniques, such as emotional and ethical appeals, in presentations	Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor Science at the White House
	7.3.L.5	Consider the experience and qualifications of speakers when analyzing and evaluating presentations, with assistance	Listening to History
	7.3.L.6	Identify missing or unclear information
	7.3.L.7	Evaluate the organization of presentations
	7.3.L.8	Evaluate the quality of the speaker�s presentation style by using criteria such as voice quality and enunciation	Give Them a Hand: Promoting Positive Interaction in Literature Circles
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Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
	7.4.L.1	Participate as a listener in social conversation with one or more people who are friends or acquaintances	Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive
	7.4.L.2	Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the speaker	Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community Using Classic Poetry to Challenge and Enrich Students' Writing When I Was Young In... A Literature to Language Experience
	7.4.L.3	Listen for more than one level of meaning
	7.4.L.4	Withhold judgment	Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community Using Classic Poetry to Challenge and Enrich Students' Writing
	7.4.L.5	Appreciate the speaker�s uniqueness	Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community Using Classic Poetry to Challenge and Enrich Students' Writing
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Literacy Competencies
	7.LC.L.1	Listening Listen actively and attentively, for an extended period of time, to a variety of texts read aloud	Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
	7.LC.L.2	Listening Listen actively and attentively, for an extended period of time, to oral presentations	Live from Ancient Olympia!
	7.LC.L.3	Listening Listen actively and attentively, for an extended period of time, for different purposes and to different speakers	Exploring and Sharing Family Stories Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural Traditions
	7.LC.L.4	Listening Respond appropriately to what was heard	Live from Ancient Olympia!


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