Free Grade 7 English Worksheets for New Hampshire Students

The first Saturday in October in Concord, the maples along North State Street turn the kind of orange that catches morning light through a kitchen window and changes the color of the whole room. A seventh grader is at the kitchen table with a half-eaten bowl of oatmeal, a pencil, and a stack of practice passages her mother printed the night before because the ELA teacher mentioned at conferences that the spring NH SAS draws on the Smarter Balanced item bank and that the reading passages are longer than the ones the student saw in sixth grade. The student is not unhappy about this. The light is good, the house is quiet, the maple at the corner of the yard is doing its show, and the work is doable in twenty-minute chunks.

That Saturday-morning rhythm at the kitchen table is one of the better matches for the NH SAS ELA. New Hampshire administers the NH Statewide Assessment System in the spring, and the Grade 7 ELA test draws on the Smarter Balanced item bank under New Hampshire’s College and Career Ready Standards for ELA. The test is computer-delivered and includes a mix of selected-response items, evidence-based selected response, and technology-enhanced items, along with a performance task that asks the student to read sources and produce an extended written response. None of that work is mysterious. All of it is rehearseable.

The NH College and Career Ready Standards for ELA organize Grade 7 across reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language. The NH SAS samples across those strands and pairs the adaptive reading-and-language portion with a Literary Analysis or Informational performance task.

This page gathers forty-three free printable Grade 7 ELA worksheets, every one mapped to a Grade 7 strand in the NH College and Career Ready Standards for ELA, every one printable at home, no signup.

What’s on this page

Each PDF opens with a Quick Review a seventh grader can read alone in three minutes. Practice items echo the formats the NH SAS uses on screen — multiple choice, multi-select, evidence-based selected response, table completion, hot-text highlighting — and several PDFs include short written prompts that build the muscle the performance task will demand. The answer keys explain the reasoning behind every right answer and the trap behind every distractor.

The list below is organized by strand, not by difficulty. A seventh grader who is solid on theme but shaky on counterclaim writing should print W.7.1 first. The order is the student’s, not the page’s.

Reading: Literature

• Citing Several Pieces of Textual Evidence — [RL.7.1] stack several quotes behind one inference
• Theme and Its Development Over the Text — [RL.7.2] theme as a full sentence, traced across the story
• How Setting, Character, and Plot Interact — [RL.7.3] setting bends character, character drives plot
• Word Choice, Figurative Language, and Tone — [RL.7.4] denotation, connotation, tone
• How Form Shapes Meaning in Drama and Poetry — [RL.7.5] sonnet, soliloquy, stanza, line break, stage direction
• Developing and Contrasting Points of View — [RL.7.6] two perspectives in deliberate tension
• Comparing a Story to Its Audio, Film, or Stage Version — [RL.7.7] what each medium can and cannot do
• Comparing Fictional and Historical Portrayals — [RL.7.9] sort real history from invention

Reading: Informational Text

• Citing Several Pieces of Evidence in Nonfiction — [RI.7.1] pull several article details toward one conclusion
• Two or More Central Ideas and Their Development — [RI.7.2] track an article teaching more than one thing
• How Individuals, Events, and Ideas Interact — [RI.7.3] person shapes idea, idea reshapes person
• Word Meaning in Nonfiction: Figurative, Connotative, Technical — [RI.7.4] three jobs one nonfiction word does
• How Text Structure Develops the Author’s Ideas — [RI.7.5] problem-solution, compare-contrast, chronological
• Author’s Point of View and How They Distinguish It — [RI.7.6] find the position and the moves that mark it
• Comparing a Text to Its Audio or Video Version — [RI.7.7] what print emphasizes vs. what broadcast emphasizes
• Evaluating an Argument: Reasoning and Evidence — [RI.7.8] strong evidence vs. filler, plus the logic between
• How Two Authors Shape Their Presentation of the Same Topic — [RI.7.9] same subject, different facts emphasized

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Writing

• Argument Writing: Claims, Reasons, Evidence, and Counterclaims — [W.7.1] Grade 7 makes the counterclaim non-negotiable
• Informative and Explanatory Writing — [W.7.2] thesis, ordered sections, transitions
• Narrative Writing — [W.7.3] pacing, dialogue, sensory description, an ending that lands
• Coherent Writing for Task, Purpose, and Audience — [W.7.4] same idea, three audiences, three versions
• Planning, Revising, and Editing — [W.7.5] sometimes the right revision is starting a paragraph over
• Short Research Projects: Question and Refocus — [W.7.7] let early findings rewrite the question
• Gathering, Evaluating, and Citing Sources — [W.7.8] author, date, publisher, citation a NH teacher expects

Speaking & Listening

• Collaborative Discussions — [SL.7.1] come prepared, listen first, disagree without dismissing
• Analyzing Information in Diverse Media — [SL.7.2] chart, clip, photo as one combined argument
• Evaluating a Speaker’s Argument — [SL.7.3] claim, reasons, evidence, gaps
• Presenting Claims with Focus and Coherence — [SL.7.4] open with the point, preview the order, hold to it
• Adapting Speech to Context — [SL.7.6] friend-talk and presentation-talk are different registers

Grammar

• Phrases and Clauses: Placement and Function — [L.7.1a] what each piece is doing, where it belongs
• Sentence Structures: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex — [L.7.1b] count clauses, name the structure
• Avoiding Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers — [L.7.1c] the small error that makes a paragraph absurd

Conventions: Punctuation, Spelling

• Commas with Coordinate Adjectives — [L.7.2a] when two adjectives need a comma and when they do not
• Spelling Grade-Appropriate Words — [L.7.2b] homophones, doubled letters, common Grade 7 misses

Knowledge of Language and Style

• Precise and Concise Language — [L.7.3a] cut wordiness, replace vague verbs, pick the exact noun

Vocabulary and Word Study

• Using Context Clues — [L.7.4a] name the kind of clue and use it on purpose
• Greek and Latin Roots and Affixes — [L.7.4b] one root unlocks ten unrelated words
• Using Reference Materials Effectively — [L.7.4c] match the tool to the question
• Verifying Word Meaning — [L.7.4d] confirm the guess before committing
• Allusions and Figures of Speech — [L.7.5a] myth, Bible, literary references seventh graders are now expected to catch
• Word Relationships: Synonyms, Antonyms, Analogies — [L.7.5b] name the relationship before picking the answer
• Connotation and Denotation — [L.7.5c] same fact, different feeling, different word
• Academic and Domain-Specific Vocabulary — [L.7.6] words that travel across subjects and words tied to one field

How to use these worksheets at home

New Hampshire families work around New Hampshire schedules. A family in Manchester might fit ELA practice between an after-school robotics meeting and a sibling’s evening swim at the YMCA. A family in Plymouth might do practice on a Sunday afternoon after the kid’s hockey scrimmage. A family in Keene might run a kitchen-table session before the parent leaves for an evening shift. The unit is one PDF, the work is twelve to fifteen minutes, and the season — leaf-peeping, mud, blackfly, or first snow — does not change the unit.

When your seventh grader misses an item, ask them to read the answer-key explanation aloud and then teach the reasoning back to you. The teach-back move converts a wrong answer into a permanent gain faster than a silent reread. Then close the folder. Twelve minutes a few times a week beats two hours on a Sunday night.

The performance task on the NH SAS rewards drafting. A student who has written three counterclaim paragraphs at home before March will be calmer at the screen than one who has not. Print the W.7.1 PDF in February. Print the planning-and-revising PDF the week after. Build the muscle on a low-stakes Saturday morning and the spring window will feel like the same work done in a different room.

A note about NH SAS in ELA

The New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System (NH SAS) ELA is the state’s spring computer-delivered Grade 7 assessment. New Hampshire is a member of the Smarter Balanced consortium, and the NH SAS draws on the Smarter Balanced item bank for many of its reading, listening, and language items. That means the formats a New Hampshire seventh grader sees on screen — multiple choice, multi-select, evidence-based selected response (claim plus supporting line), drag-and-drop, hot-text highlighting, and table fill-in — are the formats Smarter Balanced has used and refined across member states.

The NH SAS Grade 7 ELA samples across the NH College and Career Ready Standards for ELA. Reading items cover textual evidence (RL.7.1, RI.7.1), theme and central idea (RL.7.2, RI.7.2), word meaning (RL.7.4, RI.7.4), text structure (RL.7.5, RI.7.5), point of view (RL.7.6, RI.7.6), and argument evaluation (RI.7.8). Language items cover dangling and misplaced modifiers (L.7.1c), the new compound-complex sentence structure (L.7.1b), precise and concise language (L.7.3a), and academic vocabulary (L.7.6). The performance task — Literary Analysis or Informational/Research — asks the seventh grader to read sources, plan, draft, and revise in an extended session. The score reports across the four Smarter Balanced claims: reading, writing, listening, and research/inquiry.

The two pre-window weeks before the NH SAS are where the worksheets on this page earn the most. Use them to rehearse the few strands the school report card flagged or the student admits are weak — not to chase a perfect set.

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A short closing

The maples outside that kitchen window in Concord will be bare by mid-November and full again by next September. Bookmark this page, print one PDF on a Saturday morning while the light is still good, and let the small, steady kitchen-table work carry a New Hampshire seventh grader cleanly through the spring window.

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