7th Grade Final ELA Exam

Text Features

100

This text feature is a real time image for an informational text. 

Photograph

200

This text feature changes the color and size of specific words. 

Bold words 

300

This text feature includes an image of a location. 

Map

400

This text feature includes a list of chapters/sections and the pages where they start. 

Table of contents

500

This text feature is the location of words and their definition. The words are in alphabetical order. 

Glossary 

Text Structures

100

This text structure is used to provide a wide variety of information about a topic. 

Description 

200

This text structure is used when the author wants to show how one thing impacted other things. 

Cause and Effect

300

This text structure is used when the author provides ways to correct a situation. 

Problem and Solution 

400

This text structure is used by an author to show the order of events. 

Chronological or Sequence

500

This text structure is used when the author wants to show how things are the same or different. 

Compare/Contrast

Writing

100

This type of writing is a personal story of an event that had an impact on the author's life.

Memoir

200

This type of writing is used when the author is trying to show and prove their point of view, or side,  on a topic. 

Argument Writing

300

This type of writing is used when the author is presenting information they have learned about a topic. 

Research/Informational Writing 

400

This type of writing is used when an author is discussing the elements of a text. 

Literary Essay, TDA, or RTL 

500

Failure to give credit to an original author is this. 

Plagarism

Prefix, Suffix, or Root Word

100

This prefix means not.

un-

200

This prefix means before

Pre-

300

This suffix means full of

-ful or -ous

400

This root means heat

therm

500

This root means see

spect/spec

Terms to Know!

100

capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling

Conventions

200

The feeling the author wants readers to have as they read. 

Mood

300

The formatting requirements that must be met in formal writing. 

MLA formatting

400

The central topic or overarching message in a piece of writing. 

Theme 

500

Examining in detail in order to explain the writers thoughts and to connect the claims & premises with the evidence

justification/commentary