IXL skill plan | ELA 10th grade plan for the Arkansas Teaching and Learning Assessment System

Skill plan for the Arkansas Teaching and Learning Assessment System - ELA 10th grade

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Reading Fundamentals & Vocabulary
Reading Literary Text
Reading Informational Text
Writing & Language

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Reading Fundamentals & Vocabulary
Reading Fundamentals		1. Determine the central idea of a passage 2. Identify supporting evidence in a text
Reading Fundamentals
1. Determine the central idea of a passage 2. Identify supporting evidence in a text

Vocabulary		Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects 5. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words Greek and Latin roots 6. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Shades of meaning 7. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 8. Interpret figures of speech 9. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Analogies 10. Analogies: challenge
Vocabulary
Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects 5. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words Greek and Latin roots 6. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Shades of meaning 7. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 8. Interpret figures of speech 9. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Analogies 10. Analogies: challenge

Reading Literary Text
Reading Comprehension		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2 3. Analyze short stories: set 1 Theme 4. Determine the themes of short stories
Reading Comprehension
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2 3. Analyze short stories: set 1 Theme 4. Determine the themes of short stories

Reading Informational Text
Reading Comprehension		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2 Text development 3. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Rhetorical strategies 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 5. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Trace and evaluate an argument 6. Classify logical fallacies 7. Trace an argument: set 1 Author's purpose 8. Identify audience and purpose 9. Read workplace emails and memos
Reading Comprehension
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2 Text development 3. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Rhetorical strategies 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 5. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Trace and evaluate an argument 6. Classify logical fallacies 7. Trace an argument: set 1 Author's purpose 8. Identify audience and purpose 9. Read workplace emails and memos

Writing & Language
Argumentation
Purpose, Focus, and Organization		Organization 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Counterclaims 3. Evaluate counterclaims Style and tone 4. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
Organization 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Counterclaims 3. Evaluate counterclaims Style and tone 4. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone

Evidence and Elaboration		1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 3. Replace words using a thesaurus 4. Create a sentence based on the model
Evidence and Elaboration
1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 3. Replace words using a thesaurus 4. Create a sentence based on the model
Informative/Explanatory
Purpose, Focus, and Organization		Organization 1. Organize information by topic 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Style and tone 4. Which text is most formal?
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
Organization 1. Organize information by topic 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Style and tone 4. Which text is most formal?

Evidence and Elaboration		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Identify plagiarism 3. Use words accurately and precisely 4. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Evidence and Elaboration
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Identify plagiarism 3. Use words accurately and precisely 4. Combine sentences using relative clauses

Revision		1. Suggest appropriate revisions
Revision
1. Suggest appropriate revisions
Narrative
Purpose, Focus, and Organization		1. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
1. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

Evidence and Elaboration		1. Use personification 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Evidence and Elaboration
1. Use personification 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Language – Editing Tasks: Structures and Conventions
Grammar		1. Are the modifiers used correctly? 2. Use parallel structure
Grammar
1. Are the modifiers used correctly? 2. Use parallel structure

Sentence Formation		1. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Sentence Formation
1. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

Capitalization		1. Correct capitalization errors
Capitalization
1. Correct capitalization errors

Punctuation		1. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review
Punctuation
1. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review

Spelling		1. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words 2. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
Spelling
1. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words 2. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives

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