📚 ELA Practice

🟡 Reading Strategies

1. Main Idea: Use key details to determine the main idea

2. Main Idea: Determine the main idea of a passage

3. Theme: Determine the themes of short stories

4. Author’s Purpose and Tone: Identify the purpose of a text

5. Text Structure: Compare and contrast in informational texts

6. Inference: Draw inferences from a text

7. Point of View: Identify the narrative point of view

8. Text Features: Select and use text features

9. Visual Elements: Read graphic organizers

10. Poetry Elements: Identify elements of poetry

✍️ Writing Strategies

11. Organizing Writing: Put the sentences in order

12. Introductions and Conclusions: Choose the best topic sentence

13. Summarizing: Summarize a story

14. Developing and Supporting Arguments: Choose reasons to support an opinion

15. Editing and Revising: Use the correct frequently confused word

🔤 Vocabulary

16. Prefixes and Suffixes: Words with pre-

17. Greek and Latin Roots: Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

18. Synonyms and Antonyms: Choose the synonym

19. Multiple-Meaning Words: Which definition matches the sentence?

20. Idioms and Adages: Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1

21. Context Clues: Use context to identify the meaning of a word

✏️ Grammar and Mechanics

22. Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons: Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

23. Nouns: Identify common and proper nouns

24. Pronouns: Use possessive pronouns

25. Verb Tense: Form and use the regular past tense

26. Adjectives and Adverbs: Identify adjectives

27. Conjunctions: Identify coordinating conjunctions

28. Commas: Commas with a series

29. Capitalization: Correct capitalization errors

30. Formatting: Punctuating dialogue