Author’s craft and literary analysis are the focus of this Grade 7 ELA resource, helping students examine how deliberate writing choices shape interpretation and create specific effects. Students explore tone, imagery, figurative language, sentence patterns, rhetorical moves, description, and dialogue across informational and literary texts.

Examine Craft Choices and Their Effects

Students identify how tone, imagery, figurative language, and sentence patterns influence the way readers interpret a text. They move beyond identifying individual techniques by using evidence to explain which craft choice produces a particular effect and how that choice contributes to meaning.

Connect Authorial Decisions to Meaning

The resource also addresses authorial rhetorical moves in informational texts. Students consider how definitions, emphasis, and shifts in focus develop meaning and influence how information is presented. In literary texts, they analyze how description and dialogue reveal character while contributing to mood and interpretation.

Skills in Practice

• Identify how tone shapes a reader’s interpretation.
• Analyze imagery, figurative language, and sentence patterns.
• Explain how definitions and emphasis develop meaning.
• Examine shifts in focus within informational texts.
• Analyze how description and dialogue reveal character.
• Use textual evidence to justify the effect of a craft choice.

Included Materials and Activity Types

Teachers receive the student worksheet, a Student Notes & Lesson Summary supplement, and a separate Teacher Guide containing Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes. Student practice includes multiple-choice questions, true-false questions, short-answer responses, a reading passage, matching, a cloze passage, an essay, and a Did You Know component.

Classroom Application

Use this Grade 7 reading and literature worksheet for guided instruction, independent practice, classroom discussion, or reinforcement of author’s craft analysis. The varied tasks give students opportunities to identify craft choices, interpret their effects, and support their reasoning with evidence while working across literary and informational texts.

For teachers building stronger literary analysis and reading comprehension, this Ontario ELA resource keeps the emphasis on observable authorial choices and the evidence students can use to explain their effects.