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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS Overview
The following are the contents/ topics which will be covered in
grade 7.
READING COMPREHENSION
Demonstrate understanding of features of narrative and non-narrative
texts by explaining and developing these features in their own discussion
and writing.
Use inference and deduction to recognize implicit and inferred meanings.
Identify and understand the main ideas, viewpoints, themes and purposes
in a text. Support comments by quotation from more than one location in
the text.
Identify and describe the effect of writers’ and poets’ use of literary,
rhetorical and grammatical features, including imagery and figurative
language.
Comment on a writer’s use of language, demonstrating an understanding
of the implication of their use of vocabulary.
Give an informed personal response to a text and provide some textual
reference in support.
Understand how readers make choices about the texts they like reading,
e.g. by author or genre and know a range of ways in which to respond to
texts.
Understand the different ways texts can reflect the social, cultural and
historical contexts in which they were written.
Extract the main points and relevant information from a text or ICT
source, using a range of strategies such as skimming and scanning.
Make relevant notes to select, collate and summarized ideas from texts.
Explore the range of different ways writers use layout, form and
presentation in a variety of texts.
Explore the variety and range of ways in which the content of texts can
be organized, structured and combined.
The following are the contents/ topics which will be covered in
grade 7.
READING COMPREHENSION
Demonstrate understanding of features of narrative and non-narrative
texts by explaining and developing these features in their own discussion
and writing.
Use inference and deduction to recognize implicit and inferred meanings.
Identify and understand the main ideas, viewpoints, themes and purposes
in a text. Support comments by quotation from more than one location in
the text.
Identify and describe the effect of writers’ and poets’ use of literary,
rhetorical and grammatical features, including imagery and figurative
language.
Comment on a writer’s use of language, demonstrating an understanding
of the implication of their use of vocabulary.
Give an informed personal response to a text and provide some textual
reference in support.
Understand how readers make choices about the texts they like reading,
e.g. by author or genre and know a range of ways in which to respond to
texts.
Understand the different ways texts can reflect the social, cultural and
historical contexts in which they were written.
Extract the main points and relevant information from a text or ICT
source, using a range of strategies such as skimming and scanning.
Make relevant notes to select, collate and summarized ideas from texts.
Explore the range of different ways writers use layout, form and
presentation in a variety of texts.
Explore the variety and range of ways in which the content of texts can
be organized, structured and combined.
