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Perfection Learning ® Reading Teacher’s Guide • Grade 7 T EXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Perfection Learning®
Reading
Teacher’s Guide • Grade 7
TEXAS
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
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To the TeacherThis How to Get Better Test Scores book is designed to prepare your students for the reading portion of the assessments of academic readiness. Use the following steps to incorporate How to Get Better Test Scores into your classroom.
1. Have students take Tryout Test 1 and check their answers. You may wish to have students enter their answers on the reproducible Student Information and Answer Sheet on page 8 of this teacher guide. Then have them use the reproducible Skills Chart on pages 4–5 of this teacher guide to assess their strengths and weaknesses in the areas covered. (The chart below can also be used and is available in the student book.)
2. Have students work through the lessons, paying close attention to the areas in which they need improvement. Each lesson is followed by a practice test that focuses on the skills covered in the lesson. Have students fill in the Keeping Score chart on page 104 of the student book after they complete each test.
3. After completing all the lessons, have students take Tryout Test 2 to check their progress. They can enter their answers on the Student Information and Answer Sheet on page 9 of this teacher guide. Then have them complete the Skills Chart on pages 6–7 of this teacher guide. They can compare their totals with those from Tryout Test 1.
Standards Covered on the TestThe assessments of academic readiness are based on the following eligible Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Reporting Categories:Reporting Category 1: Understanding Across GenresThe student will demonstrate an ability to understand a variety of written texts across reading genres.Reporting Category 2: Comprehension and Analysis of Literary TextThe student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze literary texts.Reporting Category 3: Comprehension and Analysis of Informational TextThe student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze informational texts.
The chart beginning on page 10 of this teacher guide correlates the lessons to the TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards tested on the assessments of academic readiness.
Lesson Tryout Test 1 Tryout Test 2
1 Vocabulary Skills 2, 26, 30, 44, 46 16, 24, 28, 29, 39
2 Comprehension Strategies 5, 12, 14, 15, 35 2, 4, 20, 21, 22, 35, 36, 40, 42, 47
3 Characters, Setting, and Plot 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 23, 27, 32, 34 1, 3, 5, 9, 18, 19, 31
4 Analyzing Literature 8, 10, 20, 28, 29, 33, 36, 37, 50
8, 17, 23, 27, 30, 32, 34
5 Literary Elements 6, 22, 24, 25, 31 6, 25, 26, 33
6 Analyzing Nonfiction 11, 13, 18, 19, 21, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49
14, 37, 38, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46
7 Persuasive Text 16, 17 10, 12, 13, 15
8 Procedural Text 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 7, 11, 48, 49, 50
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Tryout Test 1 Skills Chart
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Score your answers on the Tryout Test and then use this chart to find your strengths and weaknesses in the skills covered on the reading part of the test.
1. Place a 1 in each white box to the right of the questions you answered correctly. For each incorrect answer, place a 0 in the box.
2. Add each column and write the total correct in the box at the bottom of the column.
3. For example, if you answer questions 2, 26, and 30 incorrectly, you have 2 out of 5 questions correct on the Vocabulary Skills part of the reading test. You may want to focus on these skills as you work through the lessons.
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Tryout Test 2 Skills Chart
Use this chart to find out how much you have learned.
1. Place the number of points you earned in each white box below. For each incorrect answer, place a 0 in the white box.
2. Add each column and write the total points earned in the box at the bottom of the column.
3. See how much you have improved by comparing your scores on Tryout Test 2 to your scores on Tryout Test 1.
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
This chart correlates the lessons in How to Get Better Test Scores, Grade 7 Reading, to the TEKS standards covered on the assessments of academic readiness.1
Lesson TEKS
Lesson 1: Vocabulary Skills
2 Reading and Vocabulary Development. Students understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. Students are expected to: (A) determine the meaning of grade-level academic English
words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes;
(B) use context (within a sentence and in larger sections of text) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or ambiguous words;
(E) use a dictionary, a glossary, or a thesaurus (printed or electronic) to determine the meanings, syllabication, pronunciations, alternate word choices, and parts of speech of words.
Lesson 2: Comprehension Strategies
19 Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author’s message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers. The student is expected to:(D) make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence
to support understanding; (Readiness Standard for Fiction; Supporting Standard for Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama)
(E) summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts. (Readiness Standard for Fiction; Supporting Standard for Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama)
1 Standards in bold are Readiness Standards, the standards assessed and emphasized on the test. The remaining standards are Supporting Standards that are assessed but not emphasized.
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Lesson 3: Characters, Setting, and Plot
6 Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (A) explain the influence of setting on plot development; (B) analyze the development of the plot through the internal
and external responses of the characters, including their motivations and conflicts;
(C) analyze different forms of point of view, including first-person, third-person omniscient, and third-person limited.
Lesson 4: Analyzing Literature
3 Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (A) describe multiple themes in a work of fiction; (B) describe conventions in myths and epic tales (e.g., extended simile,
the quest, the hero’s tasks, circle stories).(C) analyze how place and time influence the theme or message of a
literary work.
5 Comprehension of Literary Text/Drama. Students understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of drama and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (A) explain a playwright’s use of dialogue and stage directions.
9 Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and History. Students analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the author’s purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (A) explain the difference between the theme of a literary work and
the author’s purpose in an expository text.
19 Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author’s message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers. The student is expected to:(F) make connections between and across texts, including
other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence.
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Lesson 5: Literary Elements
4 Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:(A) analyze the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters,
line length, word position) on the meaning of a poem.
8 Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions about how an author’s sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. (A) determine the figurative meaning of phrases and analyze
how an author’s use of language creates imagery, appeals to the senses, and suggests mood.
Lesson 6: Analyzing Nonfiction
10 Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (A) evaluate a summary of the original text for accuracy of the
main ideas, supporting details, and overall meaning;(B) distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and
opinions;(C) use different organizational patterns as guides for
summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text;
(D) synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres, and support these findings with textual evidence.
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Lesson 7: Persuasive Text
11 Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive Text. Students analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about persuasive text and provide evidence from text to support their analysis. Students are expected to: (A) analyze the structure of the central argument in contemporary
policy speeches (e.g., argument by cause and effect, analogy, authority) and identify the different types of evidence used to support the argument;
(B) identify such rhetorical fallacies as ad hominem, exaggeration, stereotyping, or categorical claims in persuasive texts.
13 Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to: (A) interpret both explicit and implicit messages in various forms of
media;(C) evaluate various ways media influences and informs audiences.
Lesson 8: Procedural Text
12 Comprehension of Informational Text/Procedural Texts. Students understand how to glean and use information in procedural texts and documents. Students are expected to: (B) explain the function of the graphical components of a text.
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