Reading

Oral Language/Decoding
 

SPI's & Reporting Categories
(based on  Curriculum Standards)

Internet Resources

Use knowledge of root words, affixes, syllabication, and/or spelling patterns as aids in determining meaning within context.

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Use common text features to make meaning from text (newspapers and textbooks).
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Locate information using available features.
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Recognize that purpose determines text format.
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Identify patterns of rhyme and rhythm.
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Analyze the effects of sound in context (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia, accent, rhyme, and repetition.
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Choose the correct meaning of multiple meaning words in context.
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Comprehension
 

Read a passage and answer questions to show comprehension.

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Determine whether a given statement within a passage is fact or fiction.
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Indicate sequence of events in print and non-print texts.
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Predict future events of a passage.
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Select appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms.
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Use context clues, dictionaries, thesauruses, electronic sources, and glossaries as aids in determining the meanings of unfamiliar words within context.
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Select questions to clarify thinking.
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Recognize and use grade appropriate and/or content specific vocabulary within context.
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Locate and verify information to support predictions, ideas, opinions, and conclusions.
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Identify stated or implied cause and effect relationships.
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Draw inferences from selected texts.
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Analyze the use of similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole within context.
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Select sources from which to gather information on a given topic and determine their reliability.
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Distinguish among various literary genres (poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction).
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Determine the main ideas of a plot, their causes, how they influence future actions, and how they are resolved.
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Evaluate text for fact and opinion.
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Recognize the first person point of view.
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Select an appropriate summary statement and determine whether the theme is stated or implied.
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Specify a logical word choice to complete an analogy using synonyms, antonyms, categories, subcategories, whole/part, and functions.
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Determine the author’s purpose for writing a selection (e.g., to inform, to persuade, to entertain, or to share emotions).
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Recognize common propaganda techniques (i.e., bandwagon, loaded words, and testimonials).
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  Writing  

Process
 

Complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, and webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection.
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Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.
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Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, and to persuade).
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Identify the audience for which a text is written.
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Identify the most reliable sources of information for preparing a report or project.
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Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.
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Select appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample.
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Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well-developed paragraph.
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Select the best way to combine sentences to provide syntactic variety within context.
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Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow.
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Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context flow of ideas in a paragraph.
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Supply a missing piece of information in an outline.
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Rank possible research resources according to reliability.
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Select illustrations, descriptions, and/or facts to support key ideas.
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Select an appropriate thesis statement for a writing sample.
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  Elements of Language  

Identify the correct use of the following:
 

... nouns (common/proper, singular/plural, possessives)
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... verbs (action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement)
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... pronouns (agreement, subject, object)
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... adjectives (common/proper, comparative forms)
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... adverbs (comparative forms)
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Choose the most appropriate interjection.
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Identify the correct use of prepositions and prepositional phrases within context.
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Identify the correct use of conjunctions (i.e., coordinating and subordinating) within context.
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Recognize usage errors occurring within context
 

... double negatives
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... troublesome words: to, too, two; their, there, they’re; lie, lay; sit, set
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Identify the correct spelling of plurals and possessives.
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Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person/number) within context.
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Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, and interrupters) within context.
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Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas (in direct quotations, with explanatory material within the quote, and proper use with end mark).
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Identify correctly and incorrectly spelled words in context.
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Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semi-colon, introductory phrases and/or clauses).
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Identify the correct use of colons (i.e., in business letters, preceding a list of items) within context.
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Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or separate elements) within context.
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Review Help

Practice Tests

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Released tests

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FCAT Sample Test Book

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