US homeschool curriculum · 7th grade
7th Grade Language Arts
A self-paced online Language Arts course for 7th grade: 28 lessons across 7 units. A short placement quiz finds the right starting point, practice adapts as your child answers, and every lesson is marked automatically with progress reported to you.
- Every lesson has at least two different question styles, with hints and step-by-step worked solutions.
- Struggling triggers a gentler re-teach and a warm-up on the missing building block — never a visible drop in score.
- Work this course at its own level: a child can take 7th Grade Language Arts alongside a different grade in Math.
What your child learns
The scope and sequence below is generated from the live curriculum, so it is always what the app actually teaches.
Phonics and word reading
- Shakespearean and archaic vocabulary: Can say what an archaic word such as prithee, wherefore or methinks means.
- Spelling loanwords: Can spell borrowed words such as restaurant, silhouette and bouquet.
- Academic prefixes and suffixes: Can say what -ism, -ist and -ity do to a word's meaning.
- Commonly confused academic words: Can choose correctly between imply/infer, historic/historical and similar pairs.
Spelling
- Nominalization: Can turn a verb or adjective into a noun (decide → decision, pure → purity).
- More confusable words: Can choose correctly between stationary/stationery, complement/compliment and similar pairs.
- Unstressed vowels: Can spell words like separate, definite and category, where a vowel sound is easy to miss.
Grammar
- Passive voice for objectivity: Can choose the passive-voice sentence that suits a formal or scientific report.
- Nominalization in formal writing: Can choose the more formal sentence that uses a nominalized noun.
- Sentences with more than one dependent clause: Can say how many dependent clauses a complex sentence contains.
- Rhetorical sentence structures: Can identify a rhetorical triple, anaphora or a rhetorical aside.
- Shakespearean verb forms: Can match an archaic verb form such as doth, dost or hast to its modern meaning.
Punctuation
- Embedding quotations: Can embed a short quotation into a sentence so that it reads grammatically.
- Ellipsis for effect: Can say what an ellipsis is doing: showing hesitation, or missing words from a quotation.
- Punctuating complex sentences: Can spot the correctly punctuated version of a sentence with several clauses.
Vocabulary
- Ethos, pathos and logos: Can say whether a persuasive sentence appeals to credibility, emotion or logic.
- Identifying tone: Can identify the tone of a passage: bitter, wistful, satirical, earnest.
- Extended metaphor and symbolism: Can say what a repeated image in a passage symbolizes.
- Dramatic and verbal irony: Can tell dramatic irony from verbal irony.
Reading comprehension
- Structural techniques: Can identify a structural technique: flashback, foreshadowing, cyclical structure, contrast.
- Comparing two texts: Can say how two texts on the same topic differ in viewpoint or tone.
- Claim and counter-argument: Can pick out a writer's main claim and a counter-argument or concession.
- Understanding Shakespearean language: Can work out the modern meaning of a short line of archaic English.
- Dramatic conventions: Can identify a soliloquy, an aside, a stage direction or dramatic irony.
Writing
- Writing a thesis statement: Can choose the strongest, most specific thesis statement for an essay question.
- Building an argument across paragraphs: Can choose the topic sentence that best continues an essay's argument.
- PEEL paragraphs: Can identify the point, evidence, explanation and link sentences in a paragraph.
- Counter-argument and rebuttal: Can tell a counter-argument from the rebuttal that answers it.
Language Arts uses American spelling, punctuation and conventions throughout. It is not mapped to the Common Core ELA standards — the lesson list above is the honest description of what it teaches.