Welcome to STEM 7th Grade GT English Language Arts and Reading (ELAR)! Throughout this course you will use critical thinking and analytical skills to read, write, speak, and create. Annotation of reading selections, identification of author's purpose, and analysis of literary devices will accompany your daily experience and enhance your learning curve. To increase your word power, vocabulary instruction and extension will provide you with many opportunities to expand your internal word bank. Couple reading and vocabulary together, and you will trek through the land of sentence development and composition construction.