English
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