Final Exam Review for Reading and Language Arts

-  Reading Comprehension:  Children should identify story main idea, characters, setting, story details, cause/effect and use story details to make inferences about the characters.  They should also identify author, illustrator, story sequence (beginning, middle and end).
-  Know the parts of a book report.
-  Classify/Categorize
-  Differentiate between fiction and nonfiction stories.
-  They should be able to describe and draw story details.
-  Know long and short vowels. 
-  Know initial blends. For example, /ch/, /sp/, /th/ and be able to write a word with blends.
-  Know final blends.  For example, "/st/" in "rest"
-  Know medial vowel substitutions.  For example "/oa/" in "goat" -- digraphs -  "/or/" "/ea/" "/or/" "/ir/"
-  Unscramble words to make complete sentences with Capital letter and the appropriate
punctuation marks (. ! ? )
-  Know that special names and places should have a capital letter.
-  Identify nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives  in a sentence. (Review from grammar book)
-  Contractions:  's - 'll - 're - n't - For example, don't, we're, they'll
-  Inlections "ed" and "ing".  For example, "played"  "playing"
-  Describing words with "er" and "est".  For example:  "smaller", "smallest"
-  Review all spelling and high- frequency words from Spelling and Practice Book.
-  Children should be able to write a descriptive story.  For example if the topic is playing at the park, in their story they should be able to write sentences and tell how things look, sound, smell, taste or feel at the park. (Review from Grammar book)

**** Use Reading/Phonics Practice Books, Spelling book, and Grammar book for review.