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Seventh Grade Reading

The Essentials​

• Standards Alignment Guide:  Standard by standard guide for determining text, questions and skills from the Delaware Department of Education and Elk Grove School District.
• Text Dependent Questions:  Question design samples for each reading standard from the Delaware Department of Education.
• Why Text Complexity Matters: Dr. Timothy Shanahan
• Text Complexity Guidance by Karin Hess
• ​Readability Formulas

            Strategies

ISBE Reading and Formative Assessment Strategy Guides

• Reading Informational
• Reading Literature

William & Mary: Adolescent Literacy:
Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies -
Why, What, and How
AdLit: Classroom Strategies
Six Minutes: How to analyze a speech

      Lesson Plan Resources

​Literacy Design Collaborative: Templates that assist in designing literacy tasks aligned to standards. Click here for Sample curriculum
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Student Achievement Partners: 
Anthology Alignment Project (6th-10th): Common Core-aligned lessons for use with texts included in anthologies developed prior to the CCSS Grades 6-11​

                ​Text Sets
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Lessons using a volume of reading on specific topics to support all learners in building background knowledge and vocabulary​.
Student Achievement Partners: 

• Seventh​

Common Lit:

• ​Seventh: Fiction and Nonfiction

​​Teachers College of Reading & Writing

• Nonfiction Text Sets for Argument (Pro/Con)