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Skill plan for the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems - Reading Level D

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Language and Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies
Higher Order Reading Skills and Strategies

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Language and Vocabulary
Punctuation and capitalization		1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? 2. What does the punctuation suggest? 3. Commas: review 4. Correct capitalization errors
Punctuation and capitalization
1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? 2. What does the punctuation suggest? 3. Commas: review 4. Correct capitalization errors

Academic and domain-specific vocabulary		1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
Academic and domain-specific vocabulary
1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures

Signal words		1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Identify prepositional phrases 3. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Signal words
1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Identify prepositional phrases 3. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

Word meaning		Prefixes and suffixes 1. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 2. Words with -able and -ible Word patterns 3. Word pattern sentences Greek and Latin roots 4. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Plurals and possessives 5. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Comparative adjectives and adverbs 6. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst 7. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst Vocabulary in context 8. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 9. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Multiple-meaning words 10. Which sentence matches the definition? Reference skills 11. Use dictionary definitions
Word meaning
Prefixes and suffixes 1. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 2. Words with -able and -ible Word patterns 3. Word pattern sentences Greek and Latin roots 4. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Plurals and possessives 5. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Comparative adjectives and adverbs 6. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst 7. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst Vocabulary in context 8. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 9. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Multiple-meaning words 10. Which sentence matches the definition? Reference skills 11. Use dictionary definitions

Nuances in language		Shades of meaning 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 2. Interpret figures of speech Word usage 3. Explore words with new or contested usages Precise word choice 4. Use words accurately and precisely Style and tone 5. Which text is most formal?
Nuances in language
Shades of meaning 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 2. Interpret figures of speech Word usage 3. Explore words with new or contested usages Precise word choice 4. Use words accurately and precisely Style and tone 5. Which text is most formal?

Sentence structure and grammar		Sentence types 1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Simple, compound, and complex sentences 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses Verb tense 3. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense Pronouns 4. Subject and object pronouns review 5. Identify vague pronoun references
Sentence structure and grammar
Sentence types 1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Simple, compound, and complex sentences 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses Verb tense 3. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense Pronouns 4. Subject and object pronouns review 5. Identify vague pronoun references

Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies
Read texts and passages		Literary texts 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Workplace documents 2. Read workplace emails and memos 3. Read business letters and notices
Read texts and passages
Literary texts 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Workplace documents 2. Read workplace emails and memos 3. Read business letters and notices

Read charts, tables, and graphics		1. Interpret graphics II (Math) 2. Read graphic organizers 3. Price lists (Math)
Read charts, tables, and graphics
1. Interpret graphics II (Math) 2. Read graphic organizers 3. Price lists (Math)

Read advertisements		1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
Read advertisements
1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements

Read price tags and signs		1. Sale prices: find the original price (Math) 2. Correct errors with signs
Read price tags and signs
1. Sale prices: find the original price (Math) 2. Correct errors with signs

Key details		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text
Key details
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text

Higher Order Reading Skills and Strategies
Informational and Literary Text
Main idea and theme		Main idea 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Theme 2. Match the quotations with their themes
Main idea and theme
Main idea 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Theme 2. Match the quotations with their themes

Analyze texts		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2
Analyze texts
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2

Make inferences		1. Trace an argument: set 1
Make inferences
1. Trace an argument: set 1

Relationships between ideas and events		1. Match causes and effects in informational texts 2. Match problems with their solutions 3. Compare and contrast in informational texts
Relationships between ideas and events
1. Match causes and effects in informational texts 2. Match problems with their solutions 3. Compare and contrast in informational texts

Text structure		1. Identify text structures
Text structure
1. Identify text structures

Author's purpose and tone		Purpose 1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Tone 3. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Author's purpose and tone
Purpose 1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Tone 3. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone

Analyze arguments		Trace and evaluate arguments 1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Classify logical fallacies Fact and opinion 3. Distinguish facts from opinions Supporting evidence 4. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim Counterclaims 5. Evaluate counterclaims
Analyze arguments
Trace and evaluate arguments 1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Classify logical fallacies Fact and opinion 3. Distinguish facts from opinions Supporting evidence 4. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim Counterclaims 5. Evaluate counterclaims

Compare texts		1. Compare information from two texts 2. Compare two texts with different genres
Compare texts
1. Compare information from two texts 2. Compare two texts with different genres

Evaluate mixed media		1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Evaluate mixed media
1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Literary Text Only
Identify story elements		1. Determine the themes of short stories
Identify story elements
1. Determine the themes of short stories

Analyze texts		1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2
Analyze texts
1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2

Literary devices		1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Literary devices
1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

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