7th Grade ELA Pacing Guide Comprehension Learning Path Grade Lesson, Activity, or Quiz Unit 1: Main Idea and Supporting Details: Non-Fiction _______ _______ Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Interactive Guided Instruction Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Quiz 1 Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Quiz 2 _______ Inferences and Conclusions II _______ Thank You, Uncle Louis I Literature: The Wreckers Part 1 _______ Literature: Wright Brothers Part 1 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 1 _______ _______ _______ _______ Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Interactive Guided Instruction Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Quiz 1 Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Quiz 2 _______ Unit 2: Character Comprehension Check 1 Unit 4: Predict Outcomes Literature: The Black Stallion _______ Comprehension 1: Predict Outcomes Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 1 Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Interactive Guided Instruction Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Quiz 1 Main Idea/Supporting Details-Non-Fiction: Quiz 2 Comprehension Check 1 Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 2 _______ Comprehension 1: Predict Outcomes _______ Comprehension 2: Draw Conclusions Literature: Far North Part 1 Literature: Far North Part 2 _______ Compare and Contrast I _______ Compare and Contrast II ________ Comprehension 2: Make Inferences _______ Dr. Dorn's Revenge I ________ Make Inferences I ________ Make Inferences II ________ Inferences and Conclusions I Literature: The Wreckers Part 1 _______ Comprehension Check 1 Literature: Wright Brothers Part 2 _______ Unit 5: Cause and Effect Cause and Effect: Interactive Guided Instruction Comprehension Check 2 Unit 3: Make Inferences _______ Literature: The Birchbark House ________ Cause and Effect: Quiz 1 Comprehension 2: Make Inferences ________ Cause and Effect: Quiz 2 Literature: Far North Part 1 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 1 Literature: Far North Part 2 Cause and Effect: Interactive Guided Instruction _______ Comprehension 2: Make Inferences _______ Make Inferences I _______ Make Inferences II _______ Inferences and Conclusions I ________ Cause and Effect: Quiz 1 ________ Cause and Effect: Quiz 2 Cause and Effect: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Cause and Effect: Quiz 1 ELA Comprehension Page 1 7th Grade ELA Pacing Guide Comprehension Learning Path ________ Cause and Effect: Quiz 2 Unit 6: Author’s Purpose Author's Purpose: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Author's Purpose: Quiz 1 ________ Author's Purpose: Quiz 2 Plot: Quiz 1 ________ ________ Plot: Quiz 2 Unit 9: Elements of Character Development Character Development Character Development ________ Literature: Far North Part 1 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 2 Literature: Far North Part 2 Author's Purpose: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ ________ ________ Comprehension 1: Character, Plot, Setting ________ Compare and Contrast I _________ Compare and Contrast II ________ Elements in a Passage I ________ Elements in a Passage II Author's Purpose: Quiz 1 Author's Purpose: Quiz 2 Author's Purpose: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ ________ Author's Purpose: Quiz 1 Author's Purpose: Quiz 2 Unit 7: Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions Inferencing: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Inferencing: Quiz 1 ________ Inferencing: Quiz 2 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 4 Inferencing: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Inferencing: Quiz 1 ________ Inferencing: Quiz 2 Inferencing: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Inferencing: Quiz 1 ________ Inferencing: Quiz 2 Unit 8: Plot ________ Dr. Dorn's Revenge I Unit 10: Main Idea and Theme: Fiction Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Quiz 1 ________ Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Quiz 2 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 2 Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Quiz 1 ________ Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Quiz 2 Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Quiz 1 ________ Theme & Main Idea-Fiction: Quiz 2 Plot: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Plot: Quiz 1 ________ Plot: Quiz 2 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 2 Plot: Interactive Guided Instruction Unit 11: Compare and Contrast Compare and Contrast: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Compare and Contrast: Quiz 1 ________ Compare and Contrast: Quiz 2 ELA Comprehension Page 2 7th Grade ELA Pacing Guide Comprehension Learning Path Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 1 ________ Summarize I Compare and Contrast: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Summarize II ________ Compare and Contrast: Quiz 1 ________ The Road Not Taken I ________ Compare and Contrast: Quiz 2 ________ Inaugural Address: JFK I ________ A Product That Kills I ________ Pumped Up I Compare and Contrast: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Compare and Contrast: Quiz 1 Literature: The Wreckers Part 1 ________ Compare and Contrast: Quiz 2 Unit 12: Identify Characteristics of Genres Literature: The Wreckers Part 2 Literature: Wright Brothers Part 1 Elements of Poetry Understanding Fables Historical Fiction about the Civil War Literature: Wright Brothers Part 2 Unit 14: Discriminating Fact and Opinion Fact or Opinion? Literature: Poems By Langston Hughes _______ Comprehension 2: Analyze Lang: Literary Devices ________ Literature: An American Safari Elements of Fiction Fiction ________ ________ Characteristics of a Biography Literature: The Scarlet Pimpernel Part 1 Literature: The Scarlet Pimpernel Part 2 Literature: Hush Part 1 Literature: Hush Part 2 Literature: Surviving the Applewhites Part 1 Literature: Surviving the Applewhites Part 2 Literature: 19 Varieties of Gazelle Part 1 Literature: 19 Varieties of Gazelle Part 2 Unit 13: Comprehend a Variety of Texts Literature: My Brooklyn Grandmother ________ Comprehension 1: Main Idea Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 1 Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 2 ________ Comprehension 2: Draw Conclusions ________ Identify Main Idea I Comprehension 2: Fact or Opinion Literature: Growing Up in Coal Country Part 1 Literature: Growing Up in Coal Country Part 2 Characteristics of Fiction Reading a Biography ________ Fact, Fiction or Opinion ________ Comprehension 2: Fact or Opinion ________ Fact and Opinion I ________ Fact and Opinion II ________ Make Inferences I ________ Make Inferences II ________ Inferences and Conclusions I ________ Inferences and Conclusions II ________ Comprehension Activity Unit 15: Identify Opinion Fact or Opinion? Literature: An American Safari ________ Comprehension 2: Fact or Opinion Literature: Growing Up in Coal Country ELA Comprehension Page 3 7th Grade ELA Pacing Guide Comprehension Learning Path Part 1 Literature: Growing Up in Coal Country Part 2 ________ Comprehension 2: Fact or Opinion ________ Fact and Opinion I ________ Fact and Opinion II ________ Literature: Wright Brothers Part 1 ________ Comprehension Check 1 Unit 18: Explain Effect of Literary Devices ________ Unit 16: Plot, Character, Setting Plot, Character and Setting: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Plot, Character and Setting: Quiz 1 ________ Plot, Character and Setting: Quiz 2 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 4 Plot, Character and Setting: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Plot, Character and Setting: Quiz 1 ________ Plot, Character and Setting: Quiz 2 ________ Pony Tail and Poodle Skirt I ________ ________ Language Analysis Paint a Picture (imagery) Language Analysis Creative Comparisons (metaphor) Language Analysis Heroes are Like Good Sandwiches (simile) Figures of Speech in Poetry Literature: Poems By Langston Hughes ________ Comprehension 2: Analyze Lang: Literary Devices Literal and Figurative Language Flashbacks and Foreshadowing ________ Figurative Language II Plot, Character and Setting: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Ode to the West Wind I Plot, Character and Setting: Quiz 1 _________ Literature: The Wreckers Part 1 Comprehension Check 1 Unit 19: Charts and Graphs Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Interactive Guided Instruction Plot, Character and Setting: Quiz 2 ________ Unit 17: Understand Literary Elements Literature: The Birchbark House ________ Comprehension 1: Character, Plot, Setting Literature: My Brooklyn Grandmother ________ ________ Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Quiz 1 ________ Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Quiz 2 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 4 Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Interactive Guided Instruction Comprehension 2: Compare/Contrast Literature: Far North Part 1 ________ Literature: Far North Part 2 ________ Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Quiz 1 Comprehension 1: Character, Plot, Setting ________ Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Quiz 2 Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Interactive Guided Instruction Determine Purpose and Theme I ________ Determine Purpose and Theme II ________ Setting I Setting II ________ Setting III ________ Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Quiz 1 ________ Interpreting Charts & Graphs: Quiz 2 Unit 20: Use Information to form/explain question Literature: Mother and Daughter ELA Comprehension Page 4 7th Grade ELA Pacing Guide Comprehension Learning Path ________ Comprehension 2: Draw Conclusions Summarizing: Interactive Guided Instruction Literature: The Black Stallion ________ Comprehension 1: Predict Outcomes Literature: Far North Part 1 Literature: Far North Part 2 ________ ________ Summarizing: Quiz 1 ________ Summarizing: Quiz 2 Summarizing: Interactive Guided Instruction Comprehension 2: Make Inferences Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 1 Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 2 ________ Comprehension 1: Predict Outcomes ________ Comprehension 2: Draw Conclusions ________ Inferences and Conclusions I ________ Inferences and Conclusions II ________ Summarizing: Quiz 1 ________ Summarizing: Quiz 2 Unit 23: Comprehension Strategies Understanding What You Read Reading Carefully Literature: The Black Stallion ________ Comprehension 1: Predict Outcomes Text Organizers Using Context Clues when Reading Unit 21: Implicit Main Idea Literature: An American Safari Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 1 Comprehension 1: Author's Purpose Literature: Lupita Mañana Part 2 ________ ________ Literature: Mother and Daughter ________ Comprehension 1: Predict Outcomes Comprehension 1: Cause and Effect ________ Seeing Andrew's Destruction I ________ Thank You, Uncle Louis I Literature: My Brooklyn Grandmother ________ Comprehension 1: Main Idea ________ Identify Main Idea I Identify Main Idea II ________ Identify Main Idea III ________ Determine Purpose and Theme I ________ Determine Purpose and Theme II ________ Recognize Point of View Unit 24: Author’s Voice/Tone ________ Language Analysis Paint a Picture (imagery) Literature: An American Safari ________ Comprehension 1: Author's Purpose The Author's Voice The Voice of Writing ________ Point of View Formal and Informal Unit 22: Summarizing Summarizing: Interactive Guided Instruction ________ Author's Purpose Determine Purpose and Theme I Determine Purpose and Theme II ________ Summarizing: Quiz 1 ________ ________ Summarizing: Quiz 2 ________ Recognize Point of View Unit 25: Reading Comprehension 2 Think Aloud - Level 1 - Part 1 ELA Comprehension Page 5 7th Grade ELA Pacing Guide Comprehension Learning Path Literature: The Birchbark House ________ Comprehension 2: Make Inferences _________ Use Context Clues II Literature: Mother and Daughter _________ Use Context Clues III _________ Comprehension 2: Draw Conclusions Literature: My Brooklyn Grandmother _________ Comprehension 1: Main Idea _________ Identify Main Idea I _________ Inferences and Conclusions I _________ How to Make a Mask I Unit 28: Reading Comprehension 3 Literature: My Brooklyn Grandmother Identify Main Idea II _________ Comprehension 1: Main Idea _________ Identify Main Idea III _________ Summarize I _________ Inferences and Conclusions I Unit 26: Reading Development Literature: The Birchbark House _________ Comprehension 2: Make Inferences Literature: Growing Up in Coal Country Part 1 Literature: Growing Up in Coal Country Part 2 _________ Comprehension 1: Cause and Effect _________ Summarize I _________ Summarize II Literature: My Brooklyn Grandmother _________ Inferences and Conclusions II _________ Comprehension 1: Main Idea Literature: Far North Part 1 _________ Recognize Point of View Literature: Far North Part 2 Identify Main Idea II _________ Follow Directions _________ Summarize I _________ Inaugural Address: JFK I _________ Summarize II _________ A Product That Kills I _________ Inaugural Address: JFK I _________ Pumped Up I Unit 27: Compare/Extend Text Literature: The Giver _________ Comprehension 2: Compare/Contrast Literature: My Brooklyn Grandmother _________ Comprehension 2: Compare/Contrast _________ Compare and Contrast I Compare and Contrast II ELA Comprehension Page 6