PSSA Coach 11th Grade Reading

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PSSA Coach 11th Grade Reading

• Curriculum Integration

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Chapters One and Two

• Use pgs 46-60 ( pre-fixes, suffixes and root
  words) as supplemental vocabulary decoding
  activities.
• Vocabulary in context activities support current
  in-context activities in Sadlier book.
• Good review tools for beginning of school year.

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Chapter Three

• Topic sentence and supporting details activities
  are perfect warm-up before the first Criterion
  prompt.
• Works as reminder before any type of essay
  writing, using examples from current piece of
  literature that the class is reading to follow-up
  (i.e. If you are writing a paragraph analyzing
  Abigails role in the scene we just read in The
  Crucible- what kind of topic sentence could we
  write? What would our supporting details be?).

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Chapters Four and Five

• Making inferences
• Drawing conclusions
• Identifying author bias/ persuasive wording
• Fact vs. opinion
• Identifying central idea in text
• Analyzing viewpoints
• All can be used as introductory or supplemental
  activities to any text in our curriculum and/or a
  persuasive writing lesson.

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Chapter Six

• Text organization/Thesis Statement
• Effective introductory tools to discuss thesis
  statements before one of the Criterion prompts or
  a refresher before the class begins working on
  their literary research paper.

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Chapter Seven

• Figurative language
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Use with poetry unit or supplemental poetry
  readings during literature units.

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Chapter Eight

• Imagery and Irony
• Incorporate into literature unit. Example I
  recently used the irony definitions and
  activities to pull apart chapter seven in The
  Great Gatsby. Pgs.
• Then we discussed imagery and identified examples
  in Gatsby and then students completed activity
  from book (we went over as a class).

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Chapters Nine and Ten

• Analyzing point of view, authors voice, tone and
  style.
• These activities are the perfect complement to
  the Norton Anthology essays.
• Elements of Fiction
• This is what I cover with my short story unit
  anyway- reinforcing activities.

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Chapter Eleven

• Analyzing dialogue, characterization and
  symbolism.
• Again, works hand-in-hand with short story unit
  and in class story analysis activities.

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Chapter 12

• Drama and Poetry- use as supplement to Streetcar,
  Othello, Crucible.

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Chapter 13 and 14

• Effective sentence construction
• Grammar
• Speaks for itself- can be supplemental to
  writing activities throughout the year.

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• Important Reminder- Do not use pre-tests that
  are in beginning of book. They are going to be
  used as benchmarks by the department.