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Unit 1 Review
Reading skills to review:
- Author’s Purpose (they will be required to read a passage and identify the author’s purpose)
- Persuade: the author tries to convince the reader to do something or agree with him or her
- Inform: the author gives true factual information about a topic
- Entertain: the author writes something for a reader’s enjoyment
- Main Idea: what the text is mostly about
Details: statements that explain or prove the main idea
(they will be required to read a passage and identify the main idea and details)
- Compare and Contrast: to tell or describe how things are alike and different
- Suffixes: -ly, -ful, -al, -ive
- Examples: friendly, pitiful, musical, inventive (students will have to identify the word with matching suffixes to these example words)
Grammar skills to review: (multiple choice, identify)
- Types of Sentences:
- Declarative: makes a statement
- Interrogative: asks a question
- Exclamatory: shows much emotion
- Imperative: makes a command or request
- Complete Subject: all the words in the subject
- Example: Our awesome parents took us on an exciting vacation.
- Simple Subject: the most important word in the simple subject
- Example: Our awesome parents took us on an exciting vacation.
- Complete Predicate: all the words in the predicate
- Example: Our awesome parents took us on an exciting vacation.
- Simple Predicate: the verb, the most important word in the complete predicate
- Example: Our awesome parentstook us on an exciting vacation.
- Simple Sentences: one complete thought that contains a subject and predicate
Word Analysis: (multiple choice)
- generally: in general
- stick: to push into something; a piece of a branch
- attractive: lovely
- Miss: an unmarried female; to remember with sadness
- outline: give a summary of something; the shape of something
- goods: products made by a company
Open-Ended Questions: There will be two open ended questions based on the passages on the test. Students will be required to restate the question, answer all parts of the question completely, and provide support and/or evidence for their response. Students should also include a closing sentence.
On the school website, I have uploaded the Power Points that I use to teach and review some of these major skills. Please feel free to go over them again with your student if you like. Go to Click on school staff. Click on Cory Cyr. Click on forms at the top of my page. You can download them from there.