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Explore the integration of research and media skills in the Language Arts curriculum for Grade 7, aligning with Common Core Standards. Learn how students develop the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, and report on information across various media forms, preparing them for college, workforce training, and modern society. Discover how conducting original research, analyzing texts, and creating diverse media content are essential skills students need to thrive in today's technological landscape.
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Stephanie Merrill Librarian Junior High Grade 7 Language Arts Research
Common Core Standards Research and media skills blended into the Standards as a whole To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section.
Writing Common Core StandardsGrade 7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation. Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.