End of Year Revision Guide-V9
Fast Track English MAIA
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English
EFT6F / Grade 6
End of Year Revision Guide
English – Fast Track
Reading Comprehension and Literature
Reading comprehension skills will be tested with seen and unseen passages. Students
will need to read seen and unseen passages and answer questions about them.
The following reading comprehension and literary skills may be included in the test:
Casey at the Bat
Genre: Narrative Poem
 Recognize tone
 Determine theme
 Determine conflict and resolution
 Explain how characters respond
to conflicts
 Explain how a series of stanzas
fits together to provide the
structure of a poem
 Identify and describe elements of
plot (exposition, rising action,
climax, falling action, and
resolution)
The Negro National League
Genre: Historical Text
 Summarize text
 Identify main idea and supporting
details
 Recognize and explain
development of events
Comparing Text Structures
Genre: Informational Text
 Recognize and compare different
text structures
 Relate structure of a text to its
meaning
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My Father, the Cat
Genre: Fiction
 Describe characters, setting, and
plot
 Describe character development
 Identify message or theme
 Identify sequence of events
 Identify key details
Solar Eclipses
Genre: Nonfiction
 Recognize cause and effect
 Identify key details
Ruby Bridges
Genre: Biography
 Identifying main idea, supporting
details
 Connecting main idea and
supporting details
 Identifying structure
 Relate illustrations to text
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How to Groom a Horse
Genre: Technical Text
 Understand text features
(heading, caption, diagram)
 Use text features to locate
information
 Identify procedure and author’s
purpose
 Recognize sequence and
domain-specific words
 Recognize and explain
chronology of events
Black Beauty
Genre: Fiction
 Determine point of view,
character development and
setting
 Relate characters’ thoughts to
development
 Describe characters and theme
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Blue Blazes and the Marring of Him
Genre: Fiction
 Determine point of view, meaning
of words using context clues and
theme
 Compare and contrast point of
view and characters
 Draw inferences
 Identify and describe characters
 Relate details to theme
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
Genre: Mystery
 Recognize narrator
 Identify character traits
 Identify events, conflict, and
character motivation
 Compare and contrast characters
 Recognize features of mystery,
including clues, foreshadowing,
and suspense
Vocabulary
Below is a list of the vocabulary words that you have been studying. Use your glossary
to study the words’ definitions. You should know how to do the following with all of the
words below:
 Be familiar with all the words from the stories
 Be able to recognize the words used in context (sentences) and identify the
correct meaning of the word in a sentence
 Be able to use the words to fill in a blank of an incomplete sentence
 Be able to match vocabulary words to their definitions
 Be able to choose the word that matches a definition
 Be able to write sentences using the vocabulary words
Casey at the Bat
haughty
pallor
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straggling
stricken
The Negro National League
astounding
permit
dignity
professional
idolized
provided
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My Father, the Cat
dread
solemn
ridicule
conviction
status
engage
impulsive
Ruby Bridges
banned
eventually
hostility
Solar Eclipses
align
altered
cautious
magnificent
resources
resist
justification
portion
secluded
spectacle
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How to Groom a Horse
bond
sensitive
welfare
reacts
groom
Black Beauty
coaxing
saddle
ignorant
spoil
fearless
vain
Blue Blazes and the Marring of Him
content
heritage
obscure
abruptly
lured
slender
crucial
maliciously
peculiar
tame
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
abduction
inherit
assured
investigate
complicated
mock
custody
repulsive
fate
solitary
Writing
Be able to write a narrative essay. You will be given a prompt. You will need to respond
to the prompt using the narrative essay style. You will also be provided with a rubric that
you can use to construct your essay. You will use a few minutes at the end of the test to
neatly make revisions and corrections. Your essay will be graded on the following writing
traits:
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Ideas
Organization
Fluency and Word Choice
Conventions of Standard English
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Grammar
 Unit 6 Verbs: The Past Participle and the Present Perfect
o The Perfect Tenses
o The Past Participle
o The Present Perfect & Perfect Negative
o The Present Perfect as a Question
o The Present Perfect with ever and never
 Unit 7 Verbs: The Past and Future Perfect
o The Past Perfect & Past Perfect Negative
o The Past Perfect with already, when, before, and after
o The Future Perfect
o The Future Perfect Negative
 Unit 8 Verbs: The Passive Voice
 Unit 10 Prepositions
 Unit 11 More Abstract Nouns
o Abstract Nouns
o Abstract Nouns from Adjectives
 Unit 12 Collective Nouns and Plurals
o Collective Nouns
o Agreement: Collective Nouns with Singular Verb
o Plurals
o Making Plurals: nouns ending in -y
o Making Plurals: nouns ending in -ey, -ay, -oy, -uy
o Making Plurals: nouns ending in -o
o Making Plurals: proper nouns ending in –y
 Unit 13 Pronouns: Personal, Reflexive, and Intensive
 Unit 14 Pronouns: Indefinite
 Unit 15 Pronouns: Relative
 Unit 16 Coordinating Conjunctions and the Compound Sentence
 Unit 17 Subordinating Conjunctions and the Complex Sentence
o The Complex Sentence
o Subordinating Conjunctions - until
o Subordinating Conjunctions - although
o Subordinating Conjunctions - when
o Subordinating Conjunctions - unless
o Subordinating Conjunctions - after
o Subordinating Conjunctions - before
 Unit 18 Correlative Conjunctions
 Unit 19 Phrases and Sentences
 Unit 20 Verbs
o Action Verbs
o Helping Verbs: am, is, are
o Helping Verbs: will
o Helping Verbs: was, were
o Helping Verbs: has, have, had
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Unit 23 Punctuation: Capitals Periods and Commas
o A Quick Review page 149
o Capital Letters on Proper Nouns: Titles
o Capital Letters on Proper Nouns: Titles of Literacy and Other Works
o Commas in Lists: Nouns
o Commas in Lists: Adjectives
o Commas in Lists: Phrases
o Commas in Addresses and Letters
o Commas in Compound Sentences
o Commas in Complex Sentences
o Commas to Separate Introductory Elements
Unit 24 Punctuation: Dashes, Parentheses, and Colons
o Dashes: additional information
o Parentheses: additions, figures, and cross-references
o Parentheses: relevant information
o Colons: lists
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