FAST ELA Grade 7 case studies
FAST ELA Grade 7 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
FAST ELA Grade 7 is Florida's statewide progress-monitoring assessment in English Language Arts for seventh-grade students, part of the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) system. It is taken by students in Florida public schools, including many students in private or home-school settings who participate through their district, and it is used to gauge whether a student is meeting grade-level expectations in reading, language, and writing. The FAST ELA Grade 7 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,946 words.
1Poetry Seminar: Repetition, Imagery, and the Speaker's Attitude
At a Tuesday poetry seminar, seven students read this original six-line poem aloud twice: 'The factory exhales rust / into a sky the color of old coins. / Windows, boarded like closed eyes, / keep the noon from entering.
606 words, about 3 min2School Board Testimony: Weighing Survey, Review, and Anecdote
A seventh-grade civics class is preparing two-minute testimony for a school board meeting about a proposed phone-free policy. The class has three sources.
579 words, about 3 min3Speech Revision: Connotation, Context, and Morphology
A seventh-grade student council candidate is revising a two-minute speech. The draft sentence reads: 'The principal's plan to shorten lunch by ten minutes is a notorious attempt to solve overcrowding, and it will only exacerbate the rush.' A peer says 'notorious' sounds like the plan is famous for being bad, which is the point.
536 words, about 3 min4Lab Report Peer Edit: Agreement, Pronoun Case, and Sentence Boundaries
A seventh-grade science class is peer-editing lab reports before a unit assessment. The teacher projects four sentences from one report and asks pairs to mark errors without rewriting the writer's meaning.
605 words, about 3 min5Science Fair Research: Narrowing, Sourcing, and Citing a Statistic
A seventh-grade research team is preparing a three-to-five-minute presentation for a science fair. The broad topic is urban heat islands.
620 words, about 3 min