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Reading strategies Reading
Writing strategies Writing
Vocabulary Vocab
Grammar and mechanics Grammar
Reading strategies
A. Main idea
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Determine the main idea of a passage
B. Theme
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1
Match the quotations with their themes
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2
Determine the themes of short stories
C. Author's purpose and tone
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Identify the author's purpose
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Which sentence is more formal?
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3
Compare passages for tone
D. Point of view
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Determine the author's point of view
E. Text structure
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Compare and contrast in informational texts
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Match causes and effects in informational texts
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Match problems with their solutions
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Identify text structures
F. Literary devices
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Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
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Recall the source of an allusion
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Interpret figures of speech
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Classify figures of speech
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Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
G. Analysing literature
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Analyse short stories
H. Analysing informational texts
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Read and understand informational passages
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Trace an argument
I. Comparing texts
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Compare two texts with different genres
J. Visual elements
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Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Writing strategies
K. Organising writing
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Order topics from broadest to narrowest
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Organise information by topic
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Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
L. Developing and supporting arguments
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Distinguish facts from opinions
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Choose evidence to support a claim
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Identify supporting details in informational texts
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Identify supporting details in literary texts
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Identify counterclaims
M. Creative techniques
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Use personification
N. Active and passive voice
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Identify active and passive voice
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Rewrite the sentence in active voice
O. Editing and revising
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Use parallel structure
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Remove redundant words or phrases
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Use the correct frequently confused word
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Correct errors with frequently confused words
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Suggest appropriate revisions
P. Research skills
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Identify plagiarism
Vocabulary
Q. Prefixes and suffixes
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Words with pre-
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Words with re-
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Words with sub-
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Words with mis-
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Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
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Words with -ful
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Words with -less
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Words with -able and -ible
R. Greek and Latin roots
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Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
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Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
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Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
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Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
S. Synonyms and antonyms
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Choose the synonym
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Choose the antonym
T. Word choice and usage
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Describe the difference between related words
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2
Positive and negative connotation
U. hom*ophones
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Use the correct hom*ophone
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Which definition matches the sentence?
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Which sentence matches the definition?
V. Analogies
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Analogies
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Analogies: challenge
W. Context clues
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Find words using context
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Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
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Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
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Use context to identify the meaning of a word
X. Domain-specific vocabulary
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Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
Y. Reference skills
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Alphabetical order
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Use guide words
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Use dictionary entries
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Use dictionary definitions
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Use thesaurus entries
Grammar and mechanics
Z. Sentences, fragments and run-ons
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Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
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Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
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Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
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Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
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Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
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Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
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Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
AA. Phrases and clauses
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Is it a phrase or a clause?
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Identify appositives and appositive phrases
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Identify dependent and independent clauses
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4
Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
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Combine sentences using relative clauses
BB. Nouns
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Form and use plurals: review
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Form and use plurals of compound nouns
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3
Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
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Form the singular or plural possessive
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5
Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
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Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
CC. Pronouns and antecedents
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Identify pronouns and their antecedents
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Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
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Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
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Identify vague pronoun references
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Identify all of the possible antecedents
DD. Pronoun types
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Choose between subject and object pronouns
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Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'
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Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
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Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
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Use reflexive pronouns
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Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
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Use relative pronouns: who and whom
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Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
EE. Verb types
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Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
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Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
FF. Subject-verb agreement
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Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
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Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
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3
Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
GG. Verb tense
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Irregular past tense: review
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Simple past, present and future tense: review
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3
Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
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Form the progressive verb tenses
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Form the perfect verb tenses
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Identify participles and what they modify
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Identify gerunds and their functions
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Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
HH. Adjectives and adverbs
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Identify adjectives
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Order adjectives
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Identify adverbs
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Choose between adjectives and adverbs
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Is the word an adjective or adverb?
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Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
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Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
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Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
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Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
II. Prepositions
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Identify prepositional phrases
JJ. Direct and indirect objects
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Is it a direct object or an indirect object?
KK. Conjunctions
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Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
LL. Misplaced modifiers
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Misplaced modifiers with pictures
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Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
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Are the modifiers used correctly?
MM. Restrictive and non-restrictive elements
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Commas with non-restrictive elements
NN. Commas
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Commas with compound and complex sentences
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Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
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Commas with coordinate adjectives
OO. Semicolons, colons and commas
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Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
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Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
PP. Dashes, hyphens and ellipses
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Use dashes
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Use hyphens in compound adjectives
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Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
QQ. Capitalisation
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Correct capitalisation errors
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Capitalising titles
RR. Formatting
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Formatting titles
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Formatting and capitalising titles: review
