PSSA FOCUS AND STANDARDS
READING PROCESS AND COMPREHENSION
- ROOTS AND AFFIXES
- SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS
- CONTEXT CLUES
- MULTIPLE-MEANING WORDS
LITERARY INTERPRETATION
- MAIN IDEAS and SUPPORTING DETAILS
- DRAWING CONCLUSIONS and MAKING INFERENCES
- BIAS and PROPOGANDA TECHNIQUES
RESPONDING TO TEXTS
- SUMMARIZE TEXTS
- FACT and OPINION
- COMPARE and CONTRAST INFORMATION
- GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
AUTHOR’S PURPOSE and LITERARY DEVICES
- TEXT ORGANIZATION and AUTHOR’S PURPOSE
- METAPHOR and SIMILE
- PERSONIFICATION
- HYPERBOLE
- IMAGERY
- IRONY
ANALYZING FICTION and POETRY
- STRUCTURE OF PLOT
- CHARACTERS
- SETTING
- UNIVERSAL LITERARY THEMES
- FLASHBACK and FLASHFORWARDING
- SPEAKER and POINT OF VIEW
- MOOD and TONE
- SYMBOLISM
- ELEMENTS OF POETRY
GRAMMAR
- SENTENCE STRUCTURE and VARIETY
- PUNCTUATION
- CAPITALIZATION and SPELLING
- VERB TENSE / SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
