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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 the figure of speech
5

Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
6

Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
7

Classify the figure of speech: review
8

Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

D. Analysing literature

1

Analyse short stories: set 1
2

Analyse short stories: set 2

E. Analysing informational texts

1

Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
2

Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
3

Trace an argument: set 1
4

Trace an argument: set 2
5

Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
6

Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

Writing strategies

F. Organising writing

1

Order topics from broadest to narrowest
2

Organise information by topic

G. Topic sentences

1

Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea

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. 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

K. 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 in everyday use
6

Suggest appropriate revisions

L. Research skills

1

Identify plagiarism

Vocabulary

M. Prefixes and suffixes

1

Prefixes
2

Suffixes
3

Word pattern analogies
4

Word pattern sentences

N. 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

O. hom*ophones

1

Use the correct hom*ophone
2

Identify and correct errors with hom*ophones

P. 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

Q. Word usage and nuance

1

Describe the difference between related words
2

Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
3

Use words accurately and precisely
4

Replace words using a thesaurus
5

Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage

R. Analogies

1

Analogies
2

Analogies: challenge

S. 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
4

Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects

Grammar and mechanics

T. Sentences, fragments and run-ons

1

Identify sentence fragments
2

Identify run-on sentences
3

Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons

U. 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

V. 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

W. 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

X. 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

Y. Verb tense

1

Form the progressive verb tenses
2

Form the perfect verb tenses
3

Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Z. 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

AA. Misplaced modifiers

1

Misplaced modifiers with pictures
2

Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
3

Are the modifiers used correctly?

BB. Restrictive and non-restrictive elements

1

Commas with non-restrictive elements

CC. Commas

1

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

Commas with compound, complex and compound-complex sentences
3

Commas with coordinate adjectives
4

Commas: review

DD. Semicolons, colons and commas

1

Join sentences with semicolons, colons and commas
2

Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations and appositives
3

Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series
4

Semicolons, colons and commas: review

EE. Dashes, hyphens and ellipses

1

Use dashes
2

Use hyphens in compound adjectives
3

Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

FF. Apostrophes

1

Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
2

Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

GG. Capitalisation

1

Correct capitalisation errors