7th Grade Report Overview

The instructional materials for SpringBoard Grade 7 partially meet the expectations of alignment. Text selections are rich and rigorous, offering students a breadth and depth of opportunities to read a balance of text types and forms over the course of the school year. Texts studied are organized thematically with some attention to comparing themes across text types and modes. Writing instruction is comprehensive and includes in-depth support for process and on-demand writing to develop students' ability to write to prompts as well as craft original pieces in both informational and literary forms. Many questions and tasks are text-dependent and do necessitate students elicit evidence from texts. However, sequences of questions do not consistently support completion of rich culminating tasks that grow knowledge and allow students to demonstrate deep understanding of the texts. Academic vocabulary is present as a structured practice, but is not developed in context of student engagement beyond literary term practice. Speaking and listening opportunities provide students much opportunity to practice different types of small group and oral presentation practice, however these are not frequently connected to the texts being studied.