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For each of the Common Core standards listed below from your benchmark tests, you can find PowerPoints explaining skills and activities to help you practice those skills. Some of these worksheets were taken from a great website at http://www.ereadingworksheets.com if you want to practice more skills than are listed here:
09-10 Language 4: Determine or clarify the meaning of the unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9-10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
PowerPoint about Vocabulary in Context techniques
Vocabulary in Context Practice
09-10 Reading for Information 1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
09-10 Reading for Information 2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text , including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
PowerPoint about Main Idea and Summary
Main Idea and Summary Practice
09-10 Reading for Information 3: Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of events, including the order in which points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
09-10 Reading for Information 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
PowerPoint for Connotation/Denotation
Connotation/Denotation Practice
09-10 Reading for Information 5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of the text.
09-10 Reading for Information 6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
PowerPoint for Author’s Purpose
09-10 Reading for Information 8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
PowerPoint for Argument Structure
Identifying Effective Arguments Practice
09-10 Reading for Literature 1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
PowerPoint for Inference in Literature
Inference in Literature Practice
09-10 Reading for Literature 2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide and objective summary of the text.
09-10 Reading for Literature 3: Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text , interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
PowerPoint for Complex Characters
09-10 Reading for Literature 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
PowerPoint for Figurative Language
09-10 Reading for Literature 5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time, and create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
PowerPoint for Author’s Choice
09-10 Reading for Literature 6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide range reading of world literature.