Grade 7: Reading & writing
Start with a unit whose prerequisites fit. Work through the lessons, use the study guide to review, and try the new cases before continuing.
- Unit 1 · 4 lessons
How Setting, Sound and Medium Shape a Text
Apply explain a setting constraint, analyze a sound pattern, recognize a poetic structural turn, compare a medium technique using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Explain plot stages and common figures of speech.
- Unit 2 · 4 lessons
Claims, Appeals and Careful Comparisons
Apply identify an argument appeal, recognize a faulty reasoning pattern, distinguish reported fact and interpretation, keep comparisons comparable using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Distinguish claims, reasons and evidence.
- Unit 3 · 4 lessons
Evaluate reasons, sources, and concerns
Match evidence to a claim, expose a reasoning gap, compare source purposes, and answer a relevant counterclaim.
Before you begin: Separate observed change from a causal guarantee. · Write an evidence paragraph with an explicit limitation.
- Unit 4 · 4 lessons
Clauses, Modifiers and Sentence Variety
Apply distinguish phrase and clause, name a sentence shape, diagnose modifier placement, use coordinate adjective punctuation using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Identify subjects, verbs and conjunctions.
- Unit 5 · 4 lessons
Plan Explanations and Supported Arguments
Apply choose a controlling statement, choose an organization principle, select an appropriate register, revise at the right level using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Draft a paragraph with a relevant reason and evidence.
- Unit 6 · 4 lessons
Search, Source Roles and Productive Discussion
Apply choose targeted search language, identify a source’s relationship to an event, avoid unacknowledged borrowing, make a constructive discussion move using supplied texts and original responses.
Before you begin: Ask a focused question and record source information.
Check what you can explain
The subject test uses additional supplied cases across these units. Its feedback links back to the relevant lessons. Use it to plan practice; a score on these questions is not a school grade or proof of complete subject mastery.
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