Vocabulary

Prefixes and suffixes
  • O.1 Word pattern analogies
  • O.2 Word pattern sentences
  • O.3 Words with pre-
  • O.4 Words with re-
  • O.5 Words with sub-
  • O.6 Words with mis-
  • O.7 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
  • O.8 Words with -ful
  • O.9 Words with -less
  • O.10 Words with -able and -ible
Greek and Latin roots
  • P.1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
  • P.2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
  • P.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
  • P.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
  • P.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Homophones
  • Q.1 Use the correct homophone
  • Q.2 Identify and correct errors with homophones
Foreign words and expressions
  • R.1 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
  • R.2 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
  • R.3 Use the correct foreign expression
Word usage and nuance
  • S.1 Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
  • S.2 Use words accurately and precisely
  • S.3 Replace words using a thesaurus
Analogies
  • T.1 Analogies
  • T.2 Analogies: challenge
Context clues
  • U.1 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
  • U.2 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
  • U.3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Reference skills
  • V.1 Use dictionary entries
  • V.2 Use dictionary definitions
  • V.3 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
  • V.4 Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

Sentences, fragments and run-ons
  • W.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
  • W.2 Identify sentence fragments
  • W.3 Identify run-on sentences
  • W.4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
Phrases and clauses
  • X.1 Is it a phrase or a clause?
  • X.2 Identify prepositional phrases
  • X.3 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
  • X.4 Identify dependent and independent clauses
  • X.5 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
  • X.6 Combine sentences using relative clauses
Nouns
  • Y.1 Form and use plurals: review
  • Y.2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns
Pronouns
  • Z.1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
  • Z.2 Subject and object pronouns review
  • Z.3 Pronouns after ‘than’ and ‘as’
  • Z.4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with ‘who’
  • Z.5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
  • Z.6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
  • Z.7 Identify vague pronoun references
  • Z.8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
  • Z.9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Verb types
  • AA.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
  • AA.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
  • AA.3 Identify participles and what they modify
  • AA.4 Identify gerunds and their functions
  • AA.5 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Subject-ve rb agreement
  • BB.1 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
  • BB.2 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
  • BB.3 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
Verb tense
  • CC.1 Form the progressive verb tenses
  • CC.2 Form the perfect verb tenses
  • CC.3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
  • DD.1 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
  • DD.2 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
  • DD.3 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
  • DD.4 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
Conjunctions
  • EE.1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Misplaced modifiers
  • FF.1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
  • FF.2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
  • FF.3 Are the modifiers used correctly?
Restrictive and non-restrictive elements
  • GG.1 Commas with non-restrictive elements
Commas
  • HH.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
  • HH.2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
  • HH.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
Semicolons, colons and commas
  • II.1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
  • II.2 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
  • II.3 Semicolons, colons and commas: review
Dashes, hyphens and ellipses
  • JJ.1 Use dashes
  • JJ.2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
  • JJ.3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
Apostrophes
  • KK.1 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
  • KK.2 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
Capitalisation
  • LL.1 Correct capitalisation errors
Formatting
  • MM.1 Capitalising titles
  • MM.2 Formatting titles
  • MM.3 Formatting and capitalising titles: review

Writing strategies

Organising writing
  • F.1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
  • F.2 Organise information by main idea
Topic sentences

G.1 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea

Developing and supporting arguments
  • H.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
  • H.2 Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
  • H.3 Choose the best evidence to support a claim
  • H.4 Identify supporting evidence in a text
  • H.5 Evaluate counterclaims
  • H.6 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
  • H.7 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims
Persuasive strategies
  • I.1 Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements
  • I.2 Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing
Creative techniques
  • J.1 Use personification
Writing clearly and concisely
  • K.1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
  • K.2 Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
  • K.3 Identify sentences with parallel structure
  • K.4 Use parallel structure
  • K.5 Remove redundant words or phrases
Active a nd passive voice
  • L.1 Identify active and passive voice
  • L.2 Rewrite the sentence in active voice
Editing and revising
  • M.1 Use the correct frequently confused word
  • M.2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
  • M.3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
  • M.4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
  • M.5 Correct errors in everyday use
  • M.6 Suggest appropriate revisions
Research skills
  • N.1 Identify plagiarism

Reading strategies

Main idea
  • A.1 Determine the main idea of a passage
Audience, purpose and tone
  • B.1 Which text is most formal?
  • B.2 Identify audience and purpose
  • B.3 Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
  • B.4 Compare passages for tone
Literary devices
  • C.1 Identify the narrative point of view
  • C.2 Interpret figures of speech
  • C.3 Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
  • C.4 Classify figures of speech: review
  • C.5 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Analysing literature
  • D.1 Match the quotations with their themes
  • D.2 Analyse short stories: set 1
  • D.3 Analyse short stories: set 2
Analysing informational texts
  • E.1 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
  • E.2 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
  • E.3 Trace an argument: set 1
  • E.4 Trace an argument: set 2
  • E.5 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
  • E.6 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
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