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Reading strategies Reading

Writing strategies Writing

Vocabulary Vocab

Grammar and mechanics Grammar

Reading strategies

A. Main idea

1

Determine the main idea of a passage

B. Theme

1

Match the quotations with their themes
2

Determine the themes of short stories

C. Author's purpose and tone

1

Identify the author's purpose
2

Which sentence is more formal?
3

Compare passages for tone

D. Point of view

1

Determine the author's point of view

E. Text structure

1

Compare and contrast in informational texts
2

Match causes and effects in informational texts
3

Match problems with their solutions
4

Identify text structures

F. Literary devices

1

Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
2

Recall the source of an allusion
3

Interpret figures of speech
4

Classify figures of speech
5

Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

G. Analyzing literature

1

Analyze short stories

H. Analyzing informational texts

1

Read and understand informational passages
2

Trace an argument

I. Comparing texts

1

Compare two texts with different genres

J. Visual elements

1

Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects

Writing strategies

K. Organizing writing

1

Order topics from broadest to narrowest
2

Organize information by topic
3

Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

L. Developing and supporting arguments

1

Distinguish facts from opinions
2

Choose evidence to support a claim
3

Identify supporting details in informational texts
4

Identify supporting details in literary texts
5

Identify counterclaims

M. Creative techniques

1

Use personification

N. Editing and revising

1

Use parallel structure
2

Remove redundant words or phrases
3

Use the correct frequently confused word
4

Correct errors with frequently confused words
5

Correct errors with signs
6

Suggest appropriate revisions

O. Research skills

1

Identify plagiarism

Vocabulary

P. Prefixes and suffixes

1

Words with pre-
2

Words with re-
3

Words with sub-
4

Words with mis-
5

Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
6

Words with -ful
7

Words with -less
8

Words with -able and -ible

Q. Greek and Latin roots

1

Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
2

Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
3

Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
4

Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

R. Synonyms and antonyms

1

Choose the synonym
2

Choose the antonym

S. hom*ophones

1

Use the correct hom*ophone
2

Which definition matches the sentence?
3

Which sentence matches the definition?

T. Shades of meaning

1

Describe the difference between related words
2

Positive and negative connotation

U. Analogies

1

Analogies
2

Analogies: challenge

V. Context clues

1

Find words using context
2

Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
3

Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
4

Use context to identify the meaning of a word

W. Domain-specific vocabulary

1

Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures

X. Reference skills

1

Alphabetical order
2

Use guide words
3

Use dictionary entries
4

Use dictionary definitions
5

Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

Y. Sentences, fragments and run-ons

1

Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
2

Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
3

Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
4

Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
5

Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
6

Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
7

Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?

Z. Phrases and clauses

1

Is it a phrase or a clause?
2

Identify appositives and appositive phrases
3

Identify dependent and independent clauses
4

Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
5

Combine sentences using relative clauses

AA. Nouns

1

Form and use plurals: review
2

Form and use plurals of compound nouns
3

Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
4

Form the singular or plural possessive
5

Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

BB. Pronouns and antecedents

1

Identify pronouns and their antecedents
2

Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
3

Identify vague pronoun references
4

Identify all of the possible antecedents
5

Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

CC. Pronoun types

1

Choose between subject and object pronouns
2

Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
3

Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
4

Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
5

Use reflexive pronouns
6

Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
7

Use relative pronouns: who and whom
8

Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that

DD. Verb types

1

Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
2

Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns

EE. Subject-verb agreement

1

Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
2

Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
3

Use the correct verb – with compound subjects

FF. Verb tense

1

Irregular past tense: review
2

Simple past, present and future tense: review
3

Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
4

Form the progressive verb tenses
5

Form the perfect verb tenses

GG. Adjectives and adverbs

1

Identify adjectives
2

Order adjectives
3

Identify adverbs
4

Choose between adjectives and adverbs
5

Is the word an adjective or adverb?
6

Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
7

Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
8

Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
9

Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst

HH. Prepositions

1

Identify prepositional phrases

II. Direct and indirect objects

1

Is it a direct object or an indirect object?

JJ. Conjunctions

1

Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

KK. Misplaced modifiers

1

Misplaced modifiers with pictures
2

Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
3

Are the modifiers used correctly?

LL. Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements

1

What does the punctuation suggest?
2

Commas with nonrestrictive elements

MM. Commas

1

Commas with compound and complex sentences
2

Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
3

Commas with coordinate adjectives

NN. Semicolons, colons and commas

1

Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
2

Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists

OO. Dashes, hyphens and ellipses

1

Use dashes
2

Use hyphens in compound adjectives
3

Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

PP. Capitalization

1

Correct capitalization errors
2

Capitalizing titles

QQ. Formatting

1

Formatting titles
2

Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
3

Formatting quotations and dialogue