8th Grade ELA 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th ELA are all very much the same. This is the time to really analyze works, hone in on research and reference skills and be creating well written and concise essays. Its also the time you can tae many classes or electives including creative writing. Here is the printable as well. Reading strategies Main idea Determine the main idea of a passage Audience, purpose, and tone Which text is most formal? Compare passages for subjective and objective tone Identify audience and purpose Compare passages for tone Literary devices Identify the narrative point of view Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source Recall the source of an allusion Interpret figures of speech Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox Classify figures of speech: review Analyzing literature Analyze short stories Identify elements of poetry Analyzing informational texts Analyze the development of informational passages Trace an argument: Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts Writing strategies Organizing writing Order topics from broadest to narrowest Organize information by main idea Topic sentences and thesis statements Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Identify thesis statements Developing and supporting arguments Distinguish facts from opinions Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim Choose the best evidence to support a claim Identify supporting evidence in a text Evaluate counterclaims Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Classify logical fallacies Persuasive strategies Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing Creative techniques Use personification Writing clearly and concisely Transitions with conjunctive adverbs Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons Identify sentences with parallel structure Use parallel structure Remove redundant words or phrases Active and passive voice Identify active and passive voice Rewrite the sentence in active voice Editing and revising Use the correct frequently confused word Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions Correct errors with commonly misspelled words Correct errors with signs Correct errors in everyday use Suggest appropriate revisions Research skills (MLA) Understand a Works Cited entry Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry Use in-text citations Identify plagiarism Vocabulary Prefixes and suffixes Word pattern analogies Word pattern sentences Words with pre- Words with re- Words with sub- Words with mis- Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- Words with -ful Words with -less Words with -able and -ible Greek and Latin roots Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Homophones Use the correct homophone Identify and correct errors with homophones Foreign words and expressions Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions Use the correct foreign expression Word usage and nuance Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Use words accurately and precisely Replace words using a thesaurus Explore words with new or contested usages Analogies Analogies Context clues Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Use context to identify the meaning of a word Reference skills Use dictionary entries Use dictionary definitions Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage Use thesaurus entries Grammar and mechanics Sentences, fragments, and run-ons Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Identify sentence fragments Identify run-on sentences Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons Phrases and clauses Is it a phrase or a clause? Identify prepositional phrases Identify appositives and appositive phrases Identify dependent and independent clauses Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? Combine sentences using relative clauses Nouns Form and use plurals: review Form and use plurals of compound nouns Pronouns Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns Subject and object pronouns review Pronouns after “than” and “as” Identify and correct pronoun errors with “who” Use relative pronouns: who and whom Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Identify vague pronoun references Identify all of the possible antecedents Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person Verb types Identify transitive and intransitive verbs Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns Identify participles and what they modify Identify gerunds and their functions Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases Subject-verb agreement Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects Verb tense Form the progressive verb tenses Form the perfect verb tenses Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense Adjectives and adverbs Choose between adjectives and adverbs Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst Conjunctions Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions Misplaced modifiers Misplaced modifiers with pictures Select the misplaced or dangling modifier Are the modifiers used correctly? Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements What does the punctuation suggest? Commas with nonrestrictive elements Commas Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases Commas with series, dates, and places Commas with compound and complex sentences Commas with coordinate adjectives Commas: review Semicolons, colons, and commas Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists Semicolons, colons, and commas review Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses Use dashes Use hyphens in compound adjectives Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately Apostrophes Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession Capitalization Correct capitalization errors Formatting Formatting quotations and dialogue Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
