7th Grade BUNDLE: Reading Information & Literature CCSS Assessments & Activities

Teaching your students to cite text evidence? Are they getting stuck on supporting their analysis? This 43-page mini-unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.1.

With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 3 nonfiction passages and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will create their own how-to activities, make inferences, and annotate to understand. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included.

PDF / Google Apps | 55 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your students to determine the central ideas of a text? Are they getting stuck on providing an objective summary? This 44 page mini unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.2.

With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 3 nonfiction passages and use passage prompts to analyze the development of two or more central ideas. Students will work with graphic organizers, subjective rewrites and a tree sketch activity to help determine the central ideas of the texts they read.

PDF / Google Apps | 49 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your students to analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text? This 52-page mini-unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.3. With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 3 nonfiction passages and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will practice cause and effect with graphic organizers, complete a “Who Invented It” activity, and utilize a Star Burst graphic organizer.. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included.

PDF / Google Apps | 52 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your students to analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text? This 59-page mini-unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.4.

With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 4 nonfiction passages and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will practice changing the tone, creating their own words, analyzing figurative language, and considering common meanings with technical words.

PDF / Google Apps | 59 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your 7th grade students to analyze text structures? This 39 page mini-unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.5.

With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 3 nonfiction passages and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will practice choosing the best text structure, digging deeper with a graphic organizer, and setting the stage based on a passage.

PDF / Google Apps | 44 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your 7th-grade students to determine an author’s point of view and analyze how the author distinguishes their position from that of others? This mini-unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.6. With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 3 nonfiction passages and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will practice writing reviews, considering the opposing view, and putting their persuasive skills to work with a job application. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included, as well as a teacher guide breaking down the standard into learning targets and Depth of Knowledge (DOK) stages.

PDF / Google Apps | 48 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your 7th-grade students to compare and contrast an informational text to a visual medium? Do they need to analyze each medium’s depiction of the subject matter? This 36-page mini-unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.7.

With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 2 nonfiction passages and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will work with a Venn diagram graphic organizer and do their own research.

PDF / Google Apps | 36 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your 7th-grade students to identify and evaluate arguments?  This mini unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.8. With this standards-based resource, students will have the opportunity to read 4 texts and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will complete an activity for each text. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included, as well as a teacher guide breaking down the standard into learning targets and Depth of Knowledge (DOK) stages.

PDF / Google Apps | 49 pages + Digital Version

Teaching your 7th-grade students to compare how two or more authors write about the same topic? Do you need students to analyze their different emphases of evidence and interpretation of facts? This mini-unit includes all you need to check for understanding of RI.7.9.

PDF / Google Apps | 39 pages + Digital Version

With this standards-based resource based on RL.7.1, students will have the opportunity to read 4 passages and use passage prompts to cite evidence and analyze each selection. Students will have extra practice with determining explicit vs. implicit evidence, inference, and supporting their claims using text evidence. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included.

PDF / Google Apps | 51 pages + Digital Version

Teaching the ELA standards requires the teacher to break down the standard and make sure they are checking for student mastery in all the elements of the standard. With this standards-based resource based on RL.7.2, students will have the opportunity to read 4 passages and use passage prompts to determine the theme of each selection. Students will have extra practice with determining the central idea, analyzing the development of the theme/central idea over the course of the text, and writing an objective summary. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included.

PDF / Google Apps | 44 pages + Digital Version

With this standards-based resource based on RL.7.3, students will have the opportunity to read 4 passages and use passage prompts to identify story elements and analyze how the plot and setting affect the main character. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included.

This resource includes both a printable and digital version that is ready for Google Classroom and other distance learning platforms.

PDF / Google Apps | 54 pages + Digital Version

Teaching the ELA standards requires the teacher to break down the standard and make sure they are checking for student mastery in all the elements of the standard. With this standards-based resource based on RL.7.4, students will have the opportunity to read 3 texts (2 fiction passages and 1 poem) and use passage prompts to show their comprehension of the standard. Students will practice with determining the meanings of words with connotations and denotation, determining the meaning of figurative language, and analyzing how rhymes and sound repetitions impact a poem. This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included.

PDF / Google Apps | 45 pages + Digital Version

Analyzing the text structure of poetry and drama doesn’t have to be boring! This CCSS aligned resource gives students the opportunity to analyze the structure and form of several different poems and plays to determine meaning.

PDF / Google Apps | 71 pages + Digital Version

Are your students needing practice with analyzing different points of view? Do you need a resource to help your 7th grade students contrast the perspectives of characters or narrators?  By the time they are done with these activities in this standards based resource, students will:

• Identify the points of view of different characters
• Contrast different points of view
• Analyze how the author creates different perspectives

PDF / Google Apps | 48 pages + Digital Version

With this standards-based resource, students will:

• learn about different film, theater, and multimedia techniques and apply them to their own creative adaptation
• Read an excerpt from The Hunger Games and analyze the effects of different techniques used in the film vs. the book
• Compare and contrast a text of their choosing (or yours!) to a film adaptation using prompts and a graphic organizer.

This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding, including a summative assessment with 3 options and a rubric.

PDF / Google Apps | 39 pages + Digital Version

This resource includes everything you need to check for understanding of RL7.9 including a summative assessment with a rubric. All answer keys are also included. Teaching the ELA standards requires the teacher to break down the standard and make sure they are checking for student mastery in all the elements of the standard, and we’ve got that covered with this resource!

PDF / Google Apps | 48 pages + Digital Version