Common Core Standards
Grade 7
Speaking and Listening SL.7.2
Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
This standard says that students should be doing all the analyzing stuff they usually do on essays but converting it into soundwave form (a.k.a. using their voice). Don't forget to have students connect outward from their specific source to the wider topic.
Aligned Resources
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: To Speak or Not to Speak… Freely
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- The Basics of Social Media: Facebook Shmoop.0: Managing Your Profile and Privacy
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Channeling Winn-Dixie
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- The Basics of Social Media: Communicating with One to One Million People: Blogs and Instant Messaging
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Honoring a Loss
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Not Another Janice Avery!
- Internet Safety and Ethics: The Golden Rule Goes Online: Preventing and Stopping Cyberbullying
- Internet Safety and Ethics: Oh No, You Didn't!: Internet Dangers and Strategies for Staying Safe
- Online Research and Keyword Search Techniques: Key(word)s to Your Heart: Google Search Tips
- How To Evaluate a Website: Fact or Fiction: How to Decide What Sites Keep It Real
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: Civil War Uniforms
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Using and Citing Online Sources: Chicken or the Egg: Primary and Secondary Sources
- Using Internet Browsers and Email: Using Email and Google Drive
- How To Evaluate a Website: Fact or Opinion: How to a Judge Website's Biases
- Internet Privacy and Security: Without A (Big) Trace: Managing Your Digital Footprint
- Teaching Hatchet: What's The Big Deal in Hatchet?: Determining the Climax
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Too Many Narrators? What's Your Point of View?
- Using Internet Browsers and Email: Browser Basics: The Places You'll "Go" and the Pop-Ups You'll Block
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Online Community, Culture, and Citizenship: The Ties That Bind: How To Be A Good Online Citizen
- Online Community, Culture, and Citizenship: E-Organizing for A Better World: Internet Activism
- Online Research and Keyword Search Techniques: Research Basics: Where in the World (Wide Web) Is…?
- Internet Privacy and Security: Keeping It Real (Secret): Creating Strong Passwords and Avoiding Tricks
- Teaching Hatchet: All Alone and Nowhere to Go