1.) Apply strategies appropriate to the type of reading material, including setting purposes for reading and making generalizations, to comprehend seventh-grade recreational reading materials.

2.) Relate literary elements and devices to each other, including main idea and supporting details, climax, point of view, and imagery.

3.) Distinguish among the major genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, plays, biographies, and autobiographies, and subgenres, such as folktales, myths, parables, fables, and science fiction, based on their characteristics.

4.) Apply strategies that include setting purposes for reading, distinguishing fact from opinion, making generalizations, and reviewing to comprehend informational and functional reading materials.

5.) Recognize the use of textual elements, including main idea and supporting details, to gain information from various text formats, including graphs.

6.) Analyze nonfiction, science fiction, mystery or suspense, fantasy, and adventure for distinguishing characteristics.

7.) Interpret the author's message in various literary, informational, and functional texts.

8.) Compare selections of culturally diverse literature and their characteristics.

9.) Compose in descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive modes with a thesis sentence and introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs when appropriate.

10.) Apply mechanics in writing, including commas to set off nouns of address and following introductory phrases and clauses.

11.) Apply grammar conventions in writing to pronoun-antecedent agreement and to subject-verb agreement with inverted word order and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.

12.) Cite sources used in the research process.

13.) Apply steps in the research process to identify a problem or issue, locate resources and information, and present findings.

14.) Present findings from inquiry and research using a variety of resources.

15.) Demonstrate listening skills, including identifying the main idea, detail, purpose, and bias in group discussions, public speeches, and media messages.