四、五、六年級英文測驗練習與策略：文法、寫作、閱讀

Hello, and welcome to my 4th 5th 6th Grade English Testing Skills & Strategies: Grammar Writing Reading Diagnostic course, where we practice each week how to think like an English expert! Each class we will explore new concepts, re-visit new variations of old concepts, and tie them all to tested problems from newly-released exams. This set of meetings is designed to bring the best exam prep skills to those students in most need of testing assistance.

*Each meeting is designed as stand-alone lesson, so that a student can enroll at any point during the year and begin to immediately receive the instruction that they need to be academically successful as they move through each grade level. The core skills throughout this entire course are inferencing and critical thinking skills - as the College Board has specifically requested that these skills be tested above all else when determining what types of problems will be written into the exams. 

*Each enrolled student in this course will receive the most up-to-date of materials to use as a main reference point for all of the work completed throughout this course. This Ongoing subscription-based course is designed to be an ever-continuous stream of new material and practice problems, designed to reinforce Common Core Standards of content knowledge and critical thinking skills.  

*Each meeting is designed to explain in full details a handful of concepts that are widely-tested . These concepts are then tied directly to practice problems and drills from newly-released exams and educational material. This method allows for a student in any one of the three grade-levels (and at any point during the duration of the course) to enroll and immediately begin receiving the academic instruction that they need. 


Week of February 3

Topic:

VOCABULARY EXERCISES

Analogies; Synonyms; Sentence Completion; Flash Cards


Theme: 

GRAMMAR

Commas, punctuation marks, colons, semicolons, different types of phrases, clauses, and sentence types; proper form of word; subject-ver agreement; writing for purpose and audience; diction

Week of February 10

Theme:

WRITING ESSAYS 

Topics: 

Examining the Structure of the Essay

Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion, Examples

The Writing Process

 Brainstorming, Free-writing, Graphic Organizers, Outlines

 Citations

 Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Synthesizing and Citing Sources 

 Essay Examples for Analysis

Week of February 17

Theme:

 ENGLISH Diagnostic Exams

Topics:

-Reading with a Purpose
-Answering Questions
-Pacing
-STEP ONE: READING THE PASSAGE
-Label the Paragraphs
-State the Main Idea
-PRACTICE DRILL 1—GETTING THROUGH THE PASSAGE
-STEP TWO: ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS

Week of February 24

Theme:

General Questions

Topics: 

-Main idea
-Purpose
-Tone/attitude
-Odd ball
-Answering a General Question
-PRACTICE DRILL 2—ANSWERING A GENERAL QUESTION
-Specific Questions
-Questions with Special Formats
-EXCEPT/LEAST/NOT questions
-PRACTICE DRILL 3—ANSWERING A SPECIFIC QUESTION
-STEP THREE: PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
-How Do I Eliminate Choices?

Following Topics:

DRILLS:

“PRACTICE DRILL —ALL READING TECHNIQUES—ALL LEVELS”

ANALOGIES DRILLS:

“PRACTICE DRILL 1—MAKING SENTENCES”

“PRACTICE DRILL 2—BASIC ANALOGY TECHNIQUES”

“PRACTICE DRILL 3—WORKING BACKWARD”

“PRACTICE DRILL 4—JUDGING “SIDE OF THE FENCE”

“PRACTICE DRILL 5—USING “SIDE OF THE FENCE”

“PRACTICE DRILL 6—WORKING BACKWARD AS MUCH AS YOU CAN”

“PRACTICE DRILL 7—ALL ANALOGIES TECHNIQUES”

SYNONOYMS DRILLS

“PRACTICE DRILL 8—WRITE YOUR OWN DEFINITION”

“PRACTICE DRILL 9—WRITE ANOTHER DEFINITION”

“PRACTICE DRILL 10—BASIC SYNONYM TECHNIQUES”

“PRACTICE DRILL 11—MAKING YOUR OWN CONTEXT”

“PRACTICE DRILL 12—USING YOUR OWN CONTEXT”

“PRACTICE DRILL 13—ALL SYNONYMS TECHNIQUES”

*ISEE Sentence Completion Exercises:

“PRACTICE DRILL 7—COMING UP WITH YOUR OWN WORD”

“PRACTICE DRILL 8—ELIMINATING ANSWERS BASED ON YOUR WORD”

PRACITCE DRILL 9 -- POSITIVE/NEGATIVE

“PRACTICE DRILL 10—ELIMINATING BASED ON POSITIVE/NEGATIVE”

“PRACTICE DRILL 11—TWO-BLANK SENTENCE COMPLETIONS (UPPER LEVEL ONLY)”

“PRACTICE DRILL 12—ALL SENTENCE COMPLETION TECHNIQUES”