1st Semester Study Guide
Reading exam will be Thursday, December 15
Language Arts exam will be Friday, December 16
English/Language Arts
· Students will need to identify if the sentence given is complete or incomplete
Complete and incomplete sentences
· Students will read a sentence and determine the subject and the predicate.
(ex: The black puppy barked loud at the cat.) subject underlined once/predicate underlined twice
o Subject- who or what the sentences is about
o Predicate- the action of the sentence
· Students will need to know what a noun is and identify proper nouns in the sentences given. They will also change a singular noun to its plural form. Students will read a sentence to decide if which noun makes the most sense.
o Noun- person, place, thing, or animal
§ Proper nouns- Special and important nouns that need a capital letter
§ Common nouns- nouns that are not specific just any noun
§ Plural nouns- more than one person, place, thing, or animal
ü Add –es to nouns that end in sh, ch, ss, s, x, or z
ü Add –ies to nouns that end in a consonant and y. change the y to an i and add es
ü Add –s to any nouns that do not follow the top two rules
· Students will need to know about past, present, and future tense verbs. They will need to be able to use verbs correctly in a sentence given.
Verbs: show action in the sentence
· Students will write the contraction form for words given.
Contractions: two words written to make a shorter form of the words
· Students will read a sentence and decide which homophone belongs in the sentence.
Homophones: words that sound the same but are spelled different and mean different
· Students should know the difference between a synonym and antonym and be able to match synonyms and antonyms
Synonyms: similar or the same meaning
Antonyms: opposite meaning
Reading
The students will read different passages and answer comprehension questions. They will also need to know how to sequence events, determine the difference between a fact and an opinion, cause and effect, and the mail idea and detail of a passage.
A way to prepare for the reading exam is to have your child read a book and ask them questions about the book, also have them re-tell the book in their own words.
· Sequence Events: order in which the events occur (1st, 2nd, 3rd, last)
· Fact: based on real truce facts
· Opinion: what one thinks about something
· Cause: the reason (why something happened)
· Effect: the result (what happened)
I lost my keys so I was late for work. (cause underlined once/effect underlined twice)
· Main Idea: helps the readers understand what the passage is mainly/mostly about
· Detail: facts or examples that tell more about the main idea