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Reading strategies
Main idea
Determine the main idea of a passage
Theme
Match the quotations with their themes
Determine the themes of short stories
Author’s purpose and tone
Identify author’s purpose
Which sentence is more formal?
Compare passages for tone
Text structure
Compare and contrast in informational texts
Match causes and effects in informational texts
Match problems with their solutions
Identify text structures
Literary devices
Identify sensory details
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
Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Analyzing literature
Analyze short stories
Vocabulary review: Analyze short stories
Label the rhyme scheme
Analyzing informational texts
Read and understand informational passages
Vocabulary review: Read and understand informational passages
Trace an argument
Vocabulary review: Trace an argument
Comparing texts
Compare information from two texts
Compare two texts with different genres
Visual elements
Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Read graphic organizers
Writing strategies
Organizing writing
Order topics from broadest to narrowest
Organize information by main idea
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Developing and supporting arguments
Identify thesis statements
Distinguish facts from opinions
Choose evidence to support a claim
Identify supporting details in informational texts
Identify supporting details in literary texts
Identify counterclaims
Classify logical fallacies
Persuasive strategies
Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
Creative techniques
Use personification
Create varied sentences based on models
Editing and revising
Use parallel structure
Remove redundant words or phrases
Use the correct frequently confused word
Correct errors with frequently confused words
Correct errors with signs
Correct errors in everyday use
Suggest appropriate revisions
Research skills (MLA)
Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry
Use in-text citations
Identify plagiarism
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
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
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
Synonyms and antonyms
Choose the synonym
Choose the antonym
Homophones
Use the correct homophone
Which definition matches the sentence?
Which sentence matches the definition?
Shades of meaning
Describe the difference between related words
Positive and negative connotation
Analogies
Analogies
Context clues
Find words using context
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
Domain-specific vocabulary
Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
Reference skills
Alphabetical order
Use guide words
Use dictionary entries
Use dictionary definitions
Use thesaurus entries
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
Phrases and clauses
Is it a phrase or a clause?
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
Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives
Form the singular or plural possessive
Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns and antecedents
Identify pronouns and their antecedents
Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
Identify vague pronoun references
Identify all of the possible antecedents
Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Pronoun types
Choose between subject and object pronouns
Compound subjects and objects with “I” and “me”
Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
Use reflexive pronouns
Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
Use relative pronouns: who and whom
Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
Verb types
Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns
Subject-verb agreement
Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
Verb tense
Irregular past tense: review
Simple past, present, and future tense: review
Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Form the progressive verb tenses
Form the perfect verb tenses
Adjectives and adverbs
Identify adjectives
Order adjectives
Identify adverbs
Choose between adjectives and adverbs
Is the word an adjective or adverb?
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
Prepositions
Identify prepositional phrases
Direct and indirect objects
Is it a direct object or an indirect object?
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 series, dates, and places
Commas with compound and complex sentences
Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters
Commas with coordinate adjectives
Commas: review
Semicolons, colons, and commas
Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists
Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses
Use dashes
Use hyphens in compound adjectives
Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
Capitalization
Correct capitalization errors
Capitalizing titles
Formatting
Formatting titles
Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
Formatting street addresses
Formatting quotations and dialogue
