Reading and
LA Q1 Study Guide
Stories:
1. The Pretty Pennies Picket
2. Gandhi
3. My Brother Martin/I Have a Dream
4. Harvesting Hope
5. Passage to Freedom
6. The Island of Bulls
7. Escape from Pompeii
Vocabulary
1. Strategies
a. Word Structure
b. Context Clues
c. Apposition
2. Strategy Chart
Word
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Strategy
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Guess
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3. Words from stories:
a. Workbook
b. Textbook
Comprehension
Strategies
1. Summarize
2. Predict
3. Visualize
4. Monitor and Clarify
5. Making Connections
6. Asking Questions
7. Monitor & Adjust Reading Speed
Comprehension
Skills
1. Author’s Purpose
2. Author’s Point of View
3. Drawing Conclusions
4. Main Idea and Supporting Details
LANGUAGE
ARTS
Spelling
1. 140 words
2. Patterns
a. Inflectional ending –ing, shades of
meaning, suffix –al
b. Base word families, Greek root photo,
suffixes –ance, -or
c. Inflectional ending –ed, Antonynms,
prefix ex-, Latin root liber
d. Compound words, foreign phrases
e. Homophones
f. Content words, prefixes con-, col-,
com-, Number prefixes
g. Negative prefixes, suffixes –ful,
-less
Grammar
1. Subjects and predicates
a. Complete
b. Simple
2. Types of sentences
a. Simple
b. Compound
c. Complex
d. Compound-complex
3. Adjectives
4. Capitalization
5. Apostrophes
6. Subject-verb agreement
Writing
1. Steps of the writing process (and
definitions)
a. Prewriting
b. Drafting
c. Revising
d. Proofreading
e. Publishing
2. 5-Paragraph Essay Components
a. Leads
b. Thesis Statements
c. Outlining
d. Introduction/body/conclusion
