Common Term Assessment Information for Students and Parents

What objectives are on the CTA?

How many questions do we have on the CTA?

How Can I Prepare for the CTA?

Term I

Term II

Study Unit 5 in grammar book on Verbs (action, linking, being, emphatic, verb phrases, transitive, intransitive, simple tenses and perfect tenses, and subject verb agreement with collective nouns, compound subjects, indefinite pronouns, and prepositional phrases between subjects and verbs) all pages!

Study spelling list for Term II.

Study all bellringer handouts, notes, worksheets, and handouts.

Study suffixes handout.

Know what homonyms, antonyms, and synonyms are.

Be familiar with all parts of a book, text features, and text structures.

Recognize compound sentences with compound subjects and/or compound predicates.

Recognize simple sentences with compound subjects and/or compound predicates.

Term III

Study Unit on Nouns (singular, plurals, possessives, collective, subject/verb agreement with collective nouns, compound, appositives, concrete, abstract, predicate nominatives, direct objects, indirect objects) in textbook.

Study Unit on Pronouns (antecedents, agreement with antecedents, vague pronoun reference, subject and object pronouns, reflexive, demonstrative pronouns vs. demonstrative adjectives, indefinite, relative) in textbook.

Study Unit on Conjunctions (correlative, coordinating, subordinating, and conjunctive adverbs) in textbook.

Study Unit on Sentence Structure (simple, compound, compound-complex, complex sentences, run on sentences, comma splices, fragments) in textbook.

Study usage of semicolons (especially with conjunctive adverbs) and apostrophes (with possessives and contractions) in textbook.

Study spelling list for Term III.

Study all bellringer handouts, notes, worksheets, and other handouts.

Study Word Cell Lists and prefixes and suffixes handout (en-, em-, fore-, de-, -ative, -tive, -ible, -able, -ity, -ty).

Study figurative language (personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and idiom)

Review cause and effect.

Review sequence of events, making inferences, using transitions, justifying inferences, determining main idea, and recognizing author's purpose (entertain, persuade, inform, etc.)

There will be 47 questions on Term 3's Exam. Please do not wait until the night before the test to study. There is entirely too much material to review in one evening to be highly successful on the CTA.

Term IV