TENNESSEE. State Performance Indicators TEACHER GUIDE. Practice and Mastery. Reading and Language Arts. Tennessee TCAP TCAP TCAP TCAP TCAP TCAP TCAP

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1 TEACHER GUIDE 7 TENNESSEE State Performance Indicators Reading and Language Arts Practice and Mastery Tennessee

2 Table of Contents For the Teacher Correlation to the Tennessee Reading and Language Arts State Performance Indicators for Grade Scope and Sequence Student Tracking Chart Answer Form This guide was prepared for teachers by Robert G. Forest, EdD. ISBN Curriculum Associates, Inc. North Billerica, MA No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without written permission from the publisher. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA

3 For the Teacher What is Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery? Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery is a practice program that focuses on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program () for Reading and Language Arts. Students develop mastery of the state performance indicators from the Tennessee English/Language Arts Curriculum Standards. To develop this mastery, students read a variety of passages and respond to multiple-choice questions that correlate with the state performance indicators. The six-level program is designed for students in grades 3 through 8. The grade-7 book has two practice lessons. Each practice lesson has two parts, and each part has 35 multiple-choice items. Each practice lesson contains 70 multiple-choice items. The grade-7 book contains a total of 140 multiplechoice items. Each practice lesson in the grade-7 book contains literary selections such as poetry, folktales, articles, and stories. Multiple-choice items follow each reading selection. Each multiple-choice item correlates with a state performance indicator that appears in one of seven reading and language arts categories: 1. Content: indicators involving point of view, plot elements, literary genres, author s purpose, characteristics of prose and poetry, implied themes, character traits, and the use of flashbacks and symbolism 2. Meaning: indicators involving main ideas, clarifying questions, cause and effect relationships, fact and opinion, inferences, and predictions 3. Vocabulary: indicators involving multimeaning words, affixes and root words, synonyms, antonyms and homonyms, context clues, foreign phrases, and analogies 4. Writing/Organization: indicators involving transitional words and phrases, outlines, topic sentences and details, concluding sentences, titles, time order, coherent paragraphs, thesis statements, the logical flow of ideas and events, and text features 5. Writing Process: indicators involving graphic organizers, the purpose for writing, the elimination of unnecessary information, writing supporting sentences, the target audience for a text, syntactic variety, sentence structure, and sentence-combining techniques 6. Grammar Conventions: indicators involving correct punctuation and capitalization, correct usage of the parts of speech, plural and possessive forms, usage errors, prepositional phrases, appositives, and the use of italics and underlines 7. Techniques and Skills: indicators involving key words, text features, sources of information, spelling accuracy, figurative language, literary techniques, the reliability of resources, use of propaganda, poetic features, and sound devices 1

4 How does Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery correlate to the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program for Reading and Language Arts? Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery, Grade 7 provides students with reading and language experiences required by the Tennessee English/Language Arts Curriculum Standards detailed within the Tennessee state performance indicators. Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery, Grade 7 includes literary and informational, readings to provide students with a variety of genres for practice with each standard. The multiple-choice questions correlate directly with the state performance indicators. For more detailed information about how Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery, Grade 7 correlates with the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, refer to pages 5 through 7 in this guide. How should I use Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery? Procedures on how to use Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery, Grade 7 are detailed in the text that follows. Suggested Schedule If you wish to simulate testing conditions, refer to the chart; then read the information that follows: Practice Practice One Practice One Practice Two Practice Two Part One Two One Two Grade 7 Number of Items Testing Time in Minutes The time schedule in the chart does not include preparatory time for the distribution of books and pencils, or the time for general instructions. The preparatory time should be no longer than 15 minutes. Allow a 10-minute break between Part One and Part Two. The session for Practice One is 40 minutes, plus a 10-minute break, plus 40 minutes, for a total of 90 minutes from the beginning of the test to the end of the practice. Write the beginning time and ending time on the chalkboard as each part is completed. 2

5 Correlation to the Tennessee Reading and Language Arts State Performance Indicators for Grade 7 Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery, Grade 7 is based on the state performance indicators as set forth in the English/Language Arts Curriculum Standards adopted by the Tennessee State Board of Education. This chart correlates each question in Tennessee State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery, Grade 7 to a specific state performance indicator in one of the seven reporting categories. SPI No. State Performance Indicator Practice One Practice Two 1 Content Recognize first person point of view Identify plot elements in the proper place for a graphic organizer Distinguish between poetry and prose and between biography and autobiography Identify the author s purpose for writing and the reader s purpose for reading Determine the common characteristics of short stories, novels, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. 16, 27 36, Recognize implied themes. 8 4, Identify at least two ways by which an author reveals character traits in a given passage Identify symbolism, flashback, and foreshadowing within context Meaning Make predictions about the outcome of a given passage , Formulate clarifying questions for use before, during, or after reading. 10, 60 2, 8, Identify the main idea in a reading selection. 38, 56 11, Distinguish between fact and opinion within context Draw inferences from selected passages. 7, Analyze the cause and effect relationship in a given passage. 6, Vocabulary Determine the meaning of unknown words and/or multiple meaning words through the use of context clues. 3, Replace unknown words in context with appropriate synonyms or antonyms , Decode unknown grade level words in context, using previously learned strategies, such as analysis of affixes, as aids in determining meaning Recognize and use grade appropriate and/or content specific vocabulary within context. 9, Select the correct word or phrase to complete an analogy using synonyms, antonyms, categories, subcategories, whole/part, functions, verb forms, and rhymes. 34, 69 24, Identify commonly used foreign phrases (e.g., bon voyage, mi casa es su casa, bonjour, hasta la vista) Recognize and identify words within context that reveal particular time periods and cultures. 36,

6 SPI No. State Performance Indicator Practice One Practice Two 4 Writing/Organization Select appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well-developed paragraph , Supply a missing piece of information in an outline Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order Select an appropriate thesis statement for a writing sample. 29, Select the most appropriate title for a passage Select illustrations, explanations, anecdotes, descriptions, and/or facts to support key ideas Writing Process Complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, and webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection. 33, Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade) Identify the audience (formal/informal) for which the text is written. 47, Select the best way to combine sentences to provide syntactic variety within context Identify the sentence(s) irrelevant to a paragraph s theme or flow , Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph. 45 7, Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, introductory phrases and/or clauses). 31 6, Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or separate elements) within context Grammar Conventions Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, and 25 20, 66 interrupters) within context Recognize usage errors occurring with context (e.g., double negatives, troublesome words: to, too, two; their, there, they re; lie, lay; sit, set) Identify the correct use of colons (i.e., in business letters, preceding list of items) within context Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas (i.e., in direct quotations, with explanatory material within the quote, proper use with end marks) Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/ plural, possessives, direct/indirect objects, predicate), pronouns (i.e., agreement, reflexive, interrogative, and demonstrative), verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement, perfect tenses, verb phrases), adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative and 4, 17, superlative forms), interjection and conjunctions (i.e., coordinating, correlative, and subordinating) within context Identify the correct use of prepositions and prepositional phrases within context Identify the correct use of appositives and appositive phrases within context Select the appropriate use of underlining/italicizing with titles, specific words, numbers, and letters

7 SPI No. State Performance Indicator Practice One Practice Two 7 Techniques and Skills Derive information from the following text features: timelines, graphs, heading, and subheadings within context. 11, 61 9, Locate information using key words and headings Identify examples of propaganda techniques (i.e., bandwagon) Identify similes, metaphors, personifications, and hyperbole within context , Analyze the effects of sound (i.e., onomatopoeia, alliteration, accent, rhyme, and repetition) Rank a given set of resources according to reliability Identify examples of sound devices (e.g., rhyme, alliteration, slant rhyme, repetition, and internal rhyme) in context Identify individual written selections as technical narrative, persuasive, and/or descriptive in mode Identify levels of reliability among resources (e.g., eyewitness account, newspaper account, supermarket tabloid account, and Internet source). 26, 66 19, Identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context

8 Student Tracking Chart Grade 7 Student s Name Teacher School 1 Content Correct Incorrect Recognize first person point of view. Practice 1, Number 64 Practice 2, Number Identify plot elements in the proper place for a graphic organizer. Practice 1, Number 48 Practice 2, Number Distinguish between poetry and prose and between biography and autobiography. Practice 1, Number 50 Practice 2, Number Identify the author s purpose for writing and the reader s purpose for reading. Practice 1, Number 5 Practice 2, Number Determine the common characteristics of short stories, novels, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Practice 1, Number 16 Practice 1, Number 27 Practice 2, Number 36 Practice 2, Number Recognize implied themes. Practice 1, Number 8 Practice 2, Number 4 Practice 2, Number Identify at least two ways by which an author reveals character traits in a given passage. Practice 1, Number 15 Practice 2, Number Identify symbolism, flashback, and foreshadowing within context. Practice 1, Number 37 Practice 2, Number 38 Total Percentage /19 /19 % % TN State Performance Indicators: Reading and Language Arts, Practice and Mastery, Grade 7 Curriculum Associates, Inc. 13