Quarter 4 Language & Reading Exam Study Guide

Quarter 4 Language & Reading Exam Study Guide

Language:

Grammar: Unit 7 Adverbs

*What is an adverb?

*Writing with adverbs

*Comparing with adverbs

*Using good and well

*Negatives

*What is a preposition?

*Writing with prepositions

*Changing meaning with adverbs

Idioms:

*Explain what idioms are

*Be able to explain the meaning of the idioms we learned and use them in writing

1. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

2. A chip on your shoulder.

3. A dime a dozen.

4. A leopard can’t change its spots.

5. A piece of cake.

6. A taste of your own medicine.

7. A toss up.

8. A blessing in disguise.

9. Actions speak louder than words.

10. Add fuel to the fire.

11. An arm and a leg.

12. Back to the drawing board.

13. Between a rock and a hard place.

14. Go the extra mile.

15. Hold your horses.

Reading:

Poetry

*Be able to describe each type of poem, identify poems by their types, and write each of the following styles of poem.

*Identify and describe different elements of figurative language (alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification)

*Be able to read a poem and make inferences about its theme, meaning, or importance

*Acrostic poem

*Alphabet alliteration poem

*Cinquain poem

*Color poem

*Creature alliteration poem

*Five senses poem

*Free verse poem

*Haiku

*I am poem

Reading: Journeys Me and Uncle Romie

*You will be responsible for answering comprehension and inference questions about the story, using the ACE method. Be prepared to support your answers with evidence from the text.

*You will also be asked to make connections between the Reading lessons from quarter 1-3 and the story. For example, what is the conflict in the story, or what type of character is the narrator, what is the theme etc.

Lesson 1 Story Vocabulary

Lesson 2 Plot Elements

Lesson 3 Conflict

Lesson 4 Types of Characters

Lesson 5 Theme

Lesson 6 Point of View

Lesson 7 Mood, Voice, and Tone

 *Be able to summarize a part of, or the entire story.

*Vocabulary: glorious, studio, model, concerned, smeared, ruined, yanked, streak, schedule, feast

Reading Comprehension:

*You will have to read a text that you have not read before and answer questions about it.