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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. Audience, purpose and tone

1

Which text is most formal?
2

Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
3

Identify audience and purpose
4

Compare passages for tone

C. Literary devices

1

Identify the narrative point of view
2

Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
3

Recall the source of an allusion
4

Interpret figures of speech
5

Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
6

Classify figures of speech: review
7

Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

D. Analyzing literature

1

Analyze short stories: set 1
2

Analyze short stories: set 2

E. Analyzing informational texts

1

Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
2

Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
3

Trace an argument: set 1
4

Trace an argument: set 2
5

Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
6

Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

Writing strategies

F. Organizing writing

1

Order topics from broadest to narrowest
2

Organize information by topic

G. Topic sentences and thesis statements

1

Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
2

Identify thesis statements

H. Developing and supporting arguments

1

Distinguish facts from opinions
2

Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
3

Choose the best evidence to support a claim
4

Identify supporting evidence in a text
5

Evaluate counterclaims
6

Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
7

Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims

I. Persuasive strategies

1

Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisem*nts
2

Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing

J. Creative techniques

1

Use personification

K. Writing clearly and concisely

1

Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
2

Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
3

Identify sentences with parallel structure
4

Use parallel structure
5

Remove redundant words or phrases

L. Active and passive voice

1

Identify active and passive voice
2

Rewrite the sentence in active voice

M. Editing and revising

1

Use the correct frequently confused word
2

Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
3

Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
4

Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
5

Correct errors with signs
6

Correct errors in everyday use
7

Suggest appropriate revisions

N. Research skills

1

Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
2

Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition)
3

Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
4

Identify plagiarism

Vocabulary

O. Prefixes and suffixes

1

Word pattern analogies
2

Word pattern sentences
3

Words with pre-
4

Words with re-
5

Words with sub-
6

Words with mis-
7

Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
8

Words with -ful
9

Words with -less
10

Words with -able and -ible

P. Greek and Latin roots

1

Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
2

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

Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
4

Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
5

Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Q. hom*ophones

1

Use the correct hom*ophone
2

Identify and correct errors with hom*ophones

R. Foreign words and expressions

1

Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
2

Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
3

Use the correct foreign expression

S. Word usage and nuance

1

Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
2

Use words accurately and precisely
3

Replace words using a thesaurus
4

Explore words with new or contested usages

T. Analogies

1

Analogies
2

Analogies: challenge

U. Context clues

1

Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
2

Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
3

Use context to identify the meaning of a word

V. Reference skills

1

Use dictionary entries
2

Use dictionary definitions
3

Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
4

Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

W. Sentences, fragments and run-ons

1

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

Identify sentence fragments
3

Identify run-on sentences
4

Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons

X. Phrases and clauses

1

Is it a phrase or a clause?
2

Identify prepositional phrases
3

Identify appositives and appositive phrases
4

Identify dependent and independent clauses
5

Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
6

Combine sentences using relative clauses

Y. Nouns

1

Form and use plurals: review
2

Form and use plurals of compound nouns

Z. Pronouns

1

Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
2

Subject and object pronouns review
3

Pronouns after "than" and "as"
4

Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who"
5

Use relative pronouns: who and whom
6

Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
7

Identify vague pronoun references
8

Identify all of the possible antecedents
9

Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

AA. Verb types

1

Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
2

Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
3

Identify participles and what they modify
4

Identify gerunds and their functions
5

Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

BB. Subject-verb agreement

1

Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
2

Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
3

Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

CC. Verb tense

1

Form the progressive verb tenses
2

Form the perfect verb tenses
3

Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

DD. Adjectives and adverbs

1

Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
2

Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
3

Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
4

Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst

EE. Conjunctions

1

Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

FF. Misplaced modifiers

1

Misplaced modifiers with pictures
2

Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
3

Are the modifiers used correctly?

GG. Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements

1

What does the punctuation suggest?
2

Commas with nonrestrictive elements

HH. Commas

1

Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
2

Commas with compound and complex sentences
3

Commas with coordinate adjectives

II. Semicolons, colons and commas

1

Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
2

Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
3

Semicolons, colons and commas: review

JJ. Dashes, hyphens and ellipses

1

Use dashes
2

Use hyphens in compound adjectives
3

Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

KK. Apostrophes

1

Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
2

Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

LL. Capitalization

1

Correct capitalization errors

MM. Formatting

1

Formatting quotations and dialogue