Enriched LA & Language Arts - Week of April 7 - 11, 2008
Enriched LA & Language Arts - Week of April 7 - 11, 2008
One more week remaining before TCAP testing. Make sure you are using your time wisely in class this week. We are still reviewing as much as possible before the TCAP test. Please stay focused and on task!!!!
TCAP REVIEW
Language Arts Skills - Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection. Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order. Select the best way to combine sentences. Identify the purpose for writing (to inform, describe, explain, persuade). Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow. Evaluate text for fact or opinion. Draw inferences from selected texts. Recognize point of view in literature. Select an appropriate summary statement and determine whether the theme is stated or implied. Analyze the use of similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole within context. Using context clues, dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as aids in determining the meanings of unfamiliar words. Locate and verify information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions. Identify stated and implied cause and effect relationships. Complete graphic organizer. Select appropriate time-order or transitional words, concluding sentences, supporting sentences, and thesis sentence for well-developed paragraphs. Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow. Supply a missing piece of information in an outline. Rank possible research resources according to reliability. Identify the correct use of commas within context. (6.1.6) (6.1.9) (6.1.15) (6.1.16) (6.1.17) (6.1.18) (6.1.22) (6.1.23) (6.1.26) (6.2.1) (6.2.2) (6.2.3) (6.2.6) (6.2.7) (6.2.8) (6.2.9) (6.2.10) (6.2.11) (6.2.12) (6.2.13) (6.2.14) (6.3.4) (6.3.7) (6.3.8)
