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RLA practice

DAY 1

Sentence Fragments
Fiction: "See If I Care": ReadWorks
Writing: Describe your pet, child, spouse, or friend

DAY 2

Fused Sentences (Run-ons and comma splices)
Fiction: "A Winter's Drive": ReadWorks
Writing: Describe your oldest memory

Here's some homework for you, with answers toward the back! :)

DAY 3

Modifiers (Misplaced and Dangling)
Extended Essay

DAY 4

Writing: Have you ever built anything? Describe. If not, what would you like to build?
Parallelism
Diagnostic: Practice passages

DiagTestGEDTestSkillBuilderLanguageArtsReading.pdf

DAY 5

Three-fourths of the passages you'll read in the RLA test are nonfiction. That means they are informational in substance, rather than literary or stories. Here are some strategies and practice. (This PDF comes from OhioMeansJobs.)

GEDNonFiction.pdf

DAY 6

1. Read Lake of Fire in Readworks and answer the questions. Be sure to write in complete sentences for the short answer questions and to submit your answers!

2. Practice reading both fiction and nonfiction passages and answering questions about them with this diagnostic test.

DiagTestGEDTestSkillBuilderLanguageArtsReading.pdf

DAY 7

Writing: Are you distracted by your phone? Explain, giving reasons and examples.
Editing: Eliminating wordy and awkward sentences
Practice: Analyzing arguments

DAY 8

Commonly Confused Words

There are many words that sound like other words. We call these homophones. You can't hear the difference but they are spelled differently. Please take care to learn these distinctions once and for all.

4.1 Commonly Confused Words – Writing for Success.pdf