7th Grade Core Reading Standards Guide- Unit 5
Instructional Period 3
Functional Texts
Rational: Many of the text students will encounter in their lives will be functional, knowing how
to navigate the text to find the most important information will help students complete daily
tasks and make informed decisions.
Big Idea: Functional text helps us to make informed decisions and complete daily tasks.
Unit Outcome: TSW analyze a variety of functional text to identify elements and purpose. TSW
apply text to solve real life scenarios.
Learner Evidence: 1. TSW locate specific information within a variety of functional text. 2.TSW
identify elements of a variety of functional text. 3.TSW Interpret details from functional text in
order to answer questions. 4. TSW apply information found in a variety functional text in real
life situations. TSW create a variety of functional texts and ask and answer multi-step questions
related to the texts
Performance Based Assessment: Create a piece of functional text
Approximate Length of Unit: Introduction 10-15 days Continue to spiral throughout year
Year-Long Components:
Vocabulary/ Word Study: Content related words – Multi-syllabic words, affixes,
Fluency: Practice reading fluently daily
Stamina: Increase length and complexity of text
Comprehension Strategies
Unit Specific Components:
-Analyze a variety of functional text-directions, warranties, product information, technical
manuals, instructional manuals, consumer safety publications, flyers, maps, legends, etc
-Identify elements and purpose for different types of functional text
-Ask and answer questions that relate to different types of functional text
-Apply functional text in Real-Life scenarios
-Create functional text
Integrated Text Usage Component: Functional Text
Assessment Strategies: Read the question before reading the text, highlighting or coding key
details, use text evidence, underline answer in text before answering the question(use evidence to
prove your answer)
Common Core Standards:
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7.RI.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literacy nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text
complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
a. By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational and functional text, including
history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
7.SL.2. Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue
under study.
7.RI.5. Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections
contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
7.SL.5. Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims
and findings and emphasize salient points.
7.L.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases
based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or
function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a
word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
c. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries,
thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or
clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking
the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
7.L.6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific
words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important
to comprehension or expression.
7.W.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
a. Produce clear and coherent functional writing (formal letters, experiments, notes/messages,
labels, timelines, graphs/tables, procedures, invitations, envelopes, maps, captions, diagrams) in
which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
7.W.6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and
cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing
sources.
7.W.10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision)
and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks,
purposes, and audiences.
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AZ State Standards:
R07.S3C2.01- Use information from texts and text features to determine the sequence of
activities needed to carry out a procedure.
R07.S3C2.02- Determine what information (ex. Steps in directions, legends, supplies needed,
illustrations, diagrams, sequence) is missing in functional texts.
R07.S3C2.03- Interrupt details from a variety of functional texts (warranties, product
information, technical manuals, instructional manuals, consumer safety publications) for a
specific purpose (ex. to follow directions, to solve problems, to perform procedures, to answer
questions).
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