ABC Book CRCT Review

1. ABC BookCRCT Review EQ: How can I use the review process to make sure that I have mastered the standards needed for the CRCT?

2. ABC Book CRCT Review Overview • In your ABC Book, each letter will represent a different standard. (For example, A is for Antecedent.) • Each day we will review three standards by completing three exercises (three letters) in your booklet.

3. ABC Book – Front Page (A) • Before you do anything else on the upper right hand corner of the page please put your name and period. • In the lower right hand corner start labeling pages with the alphabet. You will be using the front and back of all pages. • Choose a topic or theme for your book. You will use this topic throughout the ABC book, so make sure you know a lot about it!!!!

4. Grading Rubric

5. Antecedent • Define antecedent. • Write two sentences about your topic that contain an antecedent. • For each sentence, draw a box around the pronoun and arrow back to the antecedent. • Define Appositive and give one example.

6. Boy, I love to write! • List the five steps of the writing process. • Describe what is included in each step.

7. Clauses • Define independent, dependent, adverb clauses and adjective clause. • Write an example of a dependent clause and an independent clause. • Then write two sentences about your topic one with an adverb and one with an adjective clause underlined.

8. Draw • Draw a picture containing 7 prepositions based on your topic. • Example: everything a squirrel can do to a tree. • Label the drawing with 7 prepositions.

9. tensE • List the six tenses that verbs can have. • Record two examples of singular and plural for each tense listed in your grammar handbook. • Define Past Participle and Future Perfect Tense. Give an example of each.

10. Figurative language • Define simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole. • Describe your topic using the above types of figurative language and label them.

11. Genres • Define the following writing genres: narrative, persuasive, expository, and technical. • Describe which genre would contain your nonfiction topic.

12. parts of speecH • Define noun, pronoun, adjective, article, verb, adverb, and preposition. Write the page number where you found these definitions. • Then write three sentences about your topic. All of the above parts of speech need to be labeled one time somewhere in your sentences.

13. Interjection • Define interjection. • Record the 12 most commonly used interjections in the grammar handbook.

14. conJunction • Define conjunction. • Record the purple box of coordination conjunctions and green box of correlative conjunctions in the grammar handbook. • Then write four sentences about your topic. Underline all of your conjunctions.

15. Kinds of Sentences • Define interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, and declarative sentences. • Write an example of each type of sentence using your nonfiction topic.

16. Lucky • Luckily you are ALMOST halfway there! • Find the definition for Adjective CLause. Write two sentences about your topic with an adjective clause underlined.

17. Modifier • Define adverb and adjective. • Create a TEN sentence paragraph on your nonfiction topic using FIVE adverbs and FIVE adjectives.

18. antoNym • Define antonym. • Identify five words that can be used to describe your topic. • Then write an antonym for each word.

19. synOnym • Define synonym. • Identify five words that can be used to describe your topic. • Then write a synonym for each word.

20. comPlements • Define complement. • List the types of complements. (There are 4) • Write five sentences about your nonfiction topic that contains a complement. • Label the subject, verb, and complement in each sentence.

21. Questions • Define indirect and direct objects. • Identify which questions both types of objects answer about a verb. • Write 5 sentences about your topic that contains a direct and indirect object. • For each sentence, label the direct and indirect object.

22. extRaneous details • What is an extraneous detail? • Define Run-On sentence and Sentence Fragment. • Give an example of each. • How do you fix a Run-on Sentence?

23. tranSition • Define transitional words and phrases. • List 20 common transitional words and phrases from your grammar handbook. • Then make up five sentences on your topic using transitional words and phrases. • Record and give the page number where each sentence can be found.

24. senTence structure • Define the four types of sentence structures and record the page number where you got the definitions. • Make an example of each type of sentence from your nonfiction book.

25. yUck, verbals! • Define verbal, participle, and infinitive. • Give an example from your grammar handbook of each of these terms. • Then write a sentence about your nonfiction topic for each type of verbal.

26. Verbs • Define linking and helping verbs. • Give five examples of each type of verb from the grammar handbook. • Then write one sentence about your nonfiction topic for each type of verb. • Label each type of verb.

27. compound Words • Define compound word. • Create a TEN sentence paragraph on your nonfiction topic using FIVE compound words.

28. suffiXes • Define suffix. • Find five examples of a suffix from your reference book. • Record, label, and give the page number where each suffix can be found.

29. Yes, prefixes, too. • Define a prefix. • Find five examples of a prefix from your reference book. • Record, label, and give the page number where each prefix can be found.

30. create a Zany illustration • Create a zany illustration for “The End!”