Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.7.3

ELA7th GradeReading Informational Text

The Standard

Analyze the interactions between individuals, events and ideas over the course of a text.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Key Ideas and Details

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students track how people, events, and ideas affect one another as an article unfolds. They explain those links using details from different parts of the text, not just a timeline.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given an article about the Montgomery bus boycott, a student can explain how Parks's arrest prompted organizers to act. They can show how the goal of ending bus segregation shaped later choices, using evidence from separate paragraphs.
Common Misconceptions: Students may list events in order without explaining how one affected another. They may treat one person's action as the only cause or miss how an idea shaped people's choices.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: After reading the boycott article, explain how Parks's arrest and the goal of ending bus segregation affected a later action. Use two details from different paragraphs.

Lesson moves

Give pairs printed excerpts on Parks's arrest, boycott planning, and a court challenge; have them arrange the excerpts and label arrows between them.
Ask: How did the goal of ending bus segregation affect organizers' choices after Parks's arrest? Require two details from the article.
Play link or list: read two claims about the article, then have teams choose which explains a cause or change and cite a line.
Print a news article about a proposed bus route change; students underline a rider's concern and explain how it affected the proposal.

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