South Dakota ELA 7.L.6

7.L.6 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 7.L.6.a

  Research words and gather vocabulary knowledge.

• 7.L.6.b

  Apply knowledge of vocabulary to reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students figure out unfamiliar school and subject words using context, word parts, and a dictionary. They use those words in writing and talk, and recognize them in reading and listening.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can find a word's meaning in a passage and check it against a dictionary. They can use the word correctly in an explanation and understand it when a classmate uses it.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may choose the first dictionary meaning even when it does not fit the sentence. They may treat “claim” and “evidence” as the same thing or copy a definition without knowing how to use the word.

04

How to Assess It

Give students this sentence: “Erosion wore away the soil along the riverbank.” Ask them to check “erosion” in a dictionary, name the context clue, and write a new sentence using the word.

1. 01

   Give pairs a short article about rivers; have them find “erosion,” “sediment,” and “deposit,” then draw and label each term on index cards.

2. 02

   Ask partners, “How is erosion different from weathering?” Have them use both words and point to a sentence in the article.

3. 03

   Play a four-corner game: read a sentence using “claim,” then have students choose its meaning from four posted definitions and explain their choice.

4. 04

   Show a weather alert that uses “advisory”; students check its meaning and explain what the alert asks people to do.

• 3.L.6

  Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases to convey ideas precisely.

• 8.L.6

  Acquire and use grade-appropriate academic and domain-specific vocabulary; gather and apply knowledge of words and phrases to reading, writing, speaking, and li...

• 6.L.6

  The 6th Grade version of this standard.