Grade 7 - Florida English
Florida: M/J Intensive Language Arts (Credit: 0.50)M/J Intensive Language Arts (MC) continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways:
Reading develops students’ reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, and sequence; teaches students how to reach logical conclusions; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences, with emphasis on adjectives, pronouns, verb types; and word choice; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of biographical and autobiographical pieces, poetry, character analyses, and the newspaper.
Writing develops students’ understanding of the key concepts of writing, providing hands-on experience with coordination, tone, word-choice, and punctuation; develops students’ vocabulary and spelling skills; gives students the opportunity to develop their abilities in writing paragraphs, speeches, short stories, short biographies, summaries, and poetry.
Speaking teaches skills that enable students to become effective speakers and communicators, weaving the skills together throughout the course.
Listening teaches effective listening comprehension skills, weaving these together throughout the lessons; builds upon students' study skills.
Florida: M/J Intensive Reading (Credit: 0.50)M/J Intensive Reading continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the following ways:
Reading develops students’ reading skills, including the identification of main ideas, supporting details, and sequence; teaches students how to reach logical conclusions; shows students how to identify parts of speech in sentences, with emphasis on adjectives, pronouns, verb types; and word choice; helps students develop basic literary comprehension skills through the reading of biographical and autobiographical pieces, poetry, character analyses, and the newspaper. 
Writing develops students’ understanding of the key concepts of writing, providing hands-on experience with coordination, tone, word-choice, and punctuation; develops students’ vocabulary and spelling skills. 
Speaking teaches skills that enable students to become effective speakers and communicators, weaving the skills together throughout the course.
Listening teaches effective listening comprehension skills, weaving these together throughout the lessons; builds upon students' study skills.
Florida: M/J Language Arts 2 (Credit: 1.00)M/J Language Arts 2 provides grade 7 students with integrated language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for college and career preparation and readiness. M/J Language Arts 2 uses varied texts of high complexity.
In M/J Language Arts 2, students will:
Actively read varied texts for both explicit meaning and the logical inferences that can be drawn
Analyze literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
the craft and structure of the text
elements of literature
arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
language’s power and impact
influence of history, culture, and setting on language
personal critical and aesthetic response
Write for varied purposes, such as:
developing and supporting argumentative claims
crafting coherent, supported informative/expository texts
responding to literature for personal and analytical purposes
writing narratives to develop real or imagined events
writing to sources using text- based evidence and reasoning
Develop effective listening, speaking, and viewing strategies with emphasis on using evidence to support or refute a claim in multimedia presentations, class discussions, and extended text discussions
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