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This course integrates oral and written conventions, listening and speaking skills, and composition. It develops and strengthens speaking and writing skills through both oral and written practice, including the integration of grammar and spelling skills within the writing process. Writing skills are developed through the use of mentor texts and through writing instruction that addresses a variety of genres, while focusing on expository writing. This course should be taken with LA7210 Reading 7.

Advanced English 7 will focus on the same TEKS prescribed by the State of Texas for the grade level but will emphasize the advanced application of writing skills (e.g., oral and written conventions, the writing process, implementation of genre characteristics) across various genres and increased text complexity. Students will be challenged to become critical thinkers through analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of higher-order thinking with instruction designed at a greater depth in order to prepare for Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and/or Dual Credit courses. These courses are designed for students who show an advanced aptitude in reading and writing.

This course integrates the teaching of English 7 ( LA7200) and Reading 7 (LA7210) for campuses not offering separate courses. This course integrates the study of writing and reading skills. Students will develop more complex reading skills by analyzing a variety of text genres and forms of media while simultaneously enhancing their proficiency using writing skills (e.g., oral and written conventions, the writing process, implementation of genre characteristics) to create compositions and responses of their own.

Advanced English & Reading 7 will focus on the same TEKS prescribed by the State of Texas for the grade level but will emphasize the advanced application of reading and writing skills in increasingly complex texts across a variety of genres as well as in various original compositions and responses to text. Students will be challenged to become critical thinkers through analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of higher-order thinking with instruction designed at a greater depth in order to prepare for Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and/or Dual Credit courses. These courses are designed for students who show an advanced aptitude in reading and writing.

This course integrates the study of literature, reading analysis and response, vocabulary development, media literacy, listening and speaking skills, and research. Students will develop more complex reading skills by analyzing a variety of literature genres, including fiction, expository, literary nonfiction, drama, poetry, persuasive, procedural, and various forms of media. This course should be taken with LA7200 – English 7.

Objectives and expectations mirror those of English Grade 7 with the addition of foundational language development expectations. Course content is adapted and scaffolded as appropriate for English learners (ELs) proficiency levels using the ELLA TEKS. The course focuses on the interconnected nature of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking through the seven integrated strands of developing and sustaining foundational language skills. This course is designed for beginning to intermediate English-speaking students with less than 3 years in the US. ELLA 7210 should be used for double block purposes.

Advanced Reading 7 will focus on the same TEKS prescribed by the State of Texas for the grade level but will emphasize the advanced application of reading skills in increasingly complex texts across a variety of genres. Students will be challenged to become critical thinkers through analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of higher-order thinking with instruction designed at a greater depth in order to prepare for Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and/or Dual Credit courses. These courses are designed for students who show an advanced aptitude in reading and writing.