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Class 3 English
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Reading foundations
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Short and long vowels
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Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words
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Spell rhyming words to answer riddles
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Blends
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Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend
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Open and closed syllables
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Spell words with open and closed syllables
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Consonant-l-e
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Spell consonant-l-e words
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Irregular words
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Spell the sight word
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Reading strategies
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Main idea
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Use key details to determine the main idea
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Determine the main idea of a passage
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Theme
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Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales
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Author's purpose
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Identify the purpose of a text
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Text structure
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Determine the order of events in informational texts
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Compare and contrast in informational texts
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Match causes with effects
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Match causes and effects in informational texts
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Match problems with their solutions
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Identify text structures
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Sensory details
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Sort sensory details
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Literary devices
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Determine the meanings of similes
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Point of view
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Distinguish characters' points of view
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Inference
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Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
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Draw inferences from a text
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Make predictions about a story
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Story elements
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Identify story elements
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Visual elements
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Compare mythological illustrations
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Literary texts: level 1
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Read fantasy with illustrations
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Read historical fiction with illustrations
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Read science fiction with illustrations
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Read realistic fiction with illustrations
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Literary texts: level 2
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Read realistic fiction: set 1
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Read realistic fiction: set 2
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Read poetry
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Informational texts: level 1
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Read about animals
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Read about food
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Read about art, music and traditions
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Read about sports and hobbies
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Informational texts: level 2
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Read about famous people
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Read about famous places
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Read about business and technology
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Read about science and nature
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Writing strategies
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Organizing writing
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Put the sentences in order
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Order items from most general to most specific
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Organize information by main idea
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Topic sentences
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Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs
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Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs
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Writer's purpose
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Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose
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Linking words
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Identify time-order words
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Use time-order words
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Use coordinating conjunctions
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Use subordinating conjunctions
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Choose the best transition
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Opinion writing
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Distinguish facts from opinions
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Identify an author's statement of opinion
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Choose reasons to support an opinion
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Complete the opinion passage with an example
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Complete the opinion passage with a reason
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Complete the opinion-reason-example table
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Descriptive details
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Add descriptive details to sentences
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Show character emotions and traits
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Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
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Vocabulary
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Prefixes and suffixes
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Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes
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Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-
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Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
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Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
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Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness
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Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
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Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
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Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review
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Greek and Latin roots
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Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
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Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
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Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
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Compound words
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Form compound words
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Form and use compound words
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Categories
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Select the members of a group
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Select the words that don't belong
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Synonyms and antonyms
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Choose the synonym
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Which sentence has the same meaning?
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Find synonyms in context
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Choose the antonym
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Which sentence uses an antonym?
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Find antonyms in context
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Homophones
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Homophones with pictures
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Identify homophones
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Use the correct homophone
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Multiple-meaning words
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Which definition matches the sentence?
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Which sentence matches the definition?
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Shades of meaning
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Describe the difference between related words
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Positive and negative connotation
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Idioms
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Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression
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Context clues
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Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
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Use context to identify the meaning of a word
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Reference skills
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Order alphabetically based on the first letter
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Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
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Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
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Order alphabetically: challenge
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Use guide words
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Use dictionary entries
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Use dictionary definitions
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Grammar and mechanics
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Sentences, fragments and run-ons
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Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?
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Identify the complete subject of a sentence
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Identify the complete predicate of a sentence
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Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
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Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
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Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
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Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
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Is the sentence simple or compound?
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Order the words to create a sentence
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Nouns
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Which word is a noun?
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Identify nouns
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Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
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Identify common and proper nouns
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Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
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Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
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Is the noun singular or plural?
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Form and use irregular plurals
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Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
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Form the singular or plural possessive
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Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
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Pronouns
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Identify personal pronouns
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Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
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Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
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Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'
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Identify possessive pronouns
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Use possessive pronouns
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Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
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Use reflexive pronouns
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Verb types
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Use action verbs
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Identify action verbs
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Identify main verbs and helping verbs
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Subject-verb agreement
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Is the subject singular or plural?
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Use the correct subject or verb
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Pronoun-verb agreement
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Verb tense
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Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
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Identify verbs in the regular past tense
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Form and use the regular past tense
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Identify the irregular past tense I
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Identify the irregular past tense II
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Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1
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To be: use the correct form
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To have: use the correct form
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Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
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Change the sentence to future tense
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Articles
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Use the correct article: a or an
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Use the correct article: a, an or the
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Identify articles
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Adjectives and adverbs
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Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
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Identify the adjective that describes the noun
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Identify adjectives
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Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
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Identify adverbs
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Choose between adjectives and adverbs
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Is the word an adjective or adverb?
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Use adjectives to compare
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Spell adjectives that compare
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Use adverbs to compare
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Prepositions
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Identify prepositions
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Identify prepositions and their objects
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Identify prepositional phrases
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Prepositions: review
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Conjunctions
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Identify coordinating conjunctions
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Identify subordinating conjunctions
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Contractions
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Pronoun-verb contractions
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Contractions with 'not'
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Commas
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Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words
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Capitalisation
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Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect
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Capitalising days, months and holidays
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Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
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Formatting
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Greetings and closings of letters
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Capitalising titles
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Formatting titles
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Formatting and capitalising titles
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