Unit 1 Skills Test Review
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Plot Pyramid
Inverted Pyramid
Summarizing
Suspense
Text Features
Verb Moods
Passive and active voice
Perfect Tenses
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
What's on the test?
Each panel of this Genially reviews a concept that will be on the test! Click the back arrow in the upper right corner to return to the home page. Click the carrot arrow in the middle right to move to the next panel. When you've reviewed the material, please complete the review game below for practice.
Quizizz Review game
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Plot Pyramid
The plot pyramid is a great strategy to use to identify the main parts of a fictional piece of writing. For each piece of the pyramid, you want to identify what happens in the story.
- exposition: the beginning, meet characters and setting
- inciting incident: introduces the central conflict and gets the plot rolling
- rising action: smaller actions and situations that build toward the climax
- climax: most exciting part of the story, or the turning point
- falling action: smaller actions and situations that lead toward the conclusion
- resolution: conclusion or ending
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Inverted Pyramid
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The Lead (or lede)
Nonfiction news articles are structured differently than a piece of fiction like a novel, poem, or short story. They typically follow the inverted pyramid structure.
The Body
The Tail
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Suspense
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creating charactersyou care for
For the test, you'll need to identify how suspense is created in a story.
using suspenseful locations
leaving out details
using cliffhangers
using a limited point of view
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Text Features
Text features are "extra" things in a book, article, story, or essay aside from the text itself. Text features help you understand the material in a different way.
Glossary
Photographs
Headings
A photograph helps you understand what something looks like. There can also be important information provided in the photograph's caption.
A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms or words relating to a specific subject or text and their explanations. It is like a mini-dictionary.
A heading is a title at the top or the start of a page or section of a text. Headings help you identify a text's topic.
Charts, graphs, and diagrams
Sidebars
A sidebar is extra information set off from the rest of the text, frequently to the side of the main text.
Sidebars can help keep you engaged in the text or aid your understanding of complex material.
These help you understand the information in connection to other information either by representing data as a picture or by showing something's structure.
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Summarizing
Steps for Effective Summarizing:
- Read the text a number of times to make sure you understand it.
- Write down your ideas without looking at the original text.
- Compare your summary to the original.
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Perfect Tenses
Perfect tense is used to show an action that is complete and finished when someone is speaking about it. Perfect tense verbs also have past, present, and future versions.
To make a perfect tense, you need a form of have and a past participle. A past participle looks like a past tense verb. For example: I had walked home when it started raining. had = form of have walked = past participle
Extra Practice here ->
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Verb Moods
Indicative mood is used to make a statement. (related to the word indicate) Examples: The sky is blue.
Julie plays basketball.
A verb's mood shows the attitude of the speaker. It is completely unrelated to verb tense (which tells when the action happens). The three most common moods are indicative, imperative, and interrogative.
Imperative mood is used to give a command. (if something is imperative, you must do it.) Examples: Please finish your homework before you go to the movies.
Run five laps! Hint! ->
Interrogative mood is used to ask a question. (related to the word interrogate) Examples: What sport do you play?
Where are you from?
Hint! ->
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Passive and active voice
Note how you can flip a sentence to make it active or passive. Example:
Forming an active voice is straightforward. The subject comes first, followed by the verb and the object.
Example: I washed the laundry.
To form a passive voice, the sentence order is flipped and the verb becomes a phrase. You also use a form of the word be with the participle. Forms of be: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been Example: The dishes were washed.
Active The dog chased the cat.
Extra Practice here ->
Passive The cat was chased by the dog.
The body contains additional information, like: Background Argument or story More specific details Quotes Support data Other helpful information.
Point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. By using a limited point of view, you may only know certain events and details depending on who is telling the story. This may create gaps, leading to a building of suspense in that you are unsure what is happening "behind the scenes."
The lead is the beginning of a news article. This section includes the main idea, or the author's overall message. The opening paragraph or two answers the 5 W's and 1 H: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
If you have ever bought a second book in a series or watched a movie or show sequel because you were desperate to find out what happens to the main characters, you have experienced a successful cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is a plot device used to keep an audience or reader anxious to find out what happens next, often through an unresolved situation. Cliffhangers are an abrupt ending to a building conflict or climax, leaving the audience or reader feeling as if they themselves are left hanging.
Elimination of details may help create suspense in that there are things left unknown. For example, if someone conspicuously avoids the third floor of their house and forbids others to enter it, it creates suspense about the third floor.
Settings are often just seen as the backdrop of the story, but they can be used to create suspense, both subtly and not so subtly. Look at the details closely. A "dark and stormy night" is not the only way an author can build suspense.
Hint! In order to tell the difference between indicative and imperative moods, look for clues like please or an exclamation point (!). Those clues hint that the sentence is a command rather than just a statement.
The tail comes at the end. This part includes other interesting or related information but is not crucial to understanding the main point of the article.
Think about the characters that you relate to or really like. Now, think of that character in a dangerous situation. Authors may create likable characters to ensure that you will feel suspense when the character is put into a stressful or difficult situation.
Hint! Look for the question mark (?) to identify the interrogative mood.
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Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Click here first!
Plot Pyramid
Inverted Pyramid
Summarizing
Suspense
Text Features
Verb Moods
Passive and active voice
Perfect Tenses
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
What's on the test?
Each panel of this Genially reviews a concept that will be on the test! Click the back arrow in the upper right corner to return to the home page. Click the carrot arrow in the middle right to move to the next panel. When you've reviewed the material, please complete the review game below for practice.
Quizizz Review game
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Plot Pyramid
The plot pyramid is a great strategy to use to identify the main parts of a fictional piece of writing. For each piece of the pyramid, you want to identify what happens in the story.
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Inverted Pyramid
Click the icons for more information!
The Lead (or lede)
Nonfiction news articles are structured differently than a piece of fiction like a novel, poem, or short story. They typically follow the inverted pyramid structure.
The Body
The Tail
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Suspense
Click the icons for more information!
creating charactersyou care for
For the test, you'll need to identify how suspense is created in a story.
using suspenseful locations
leaving out details
using cliffhangers
using a limited point of view
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Text Features
Text features are "extra" things in a book, article, story, or essay aside from the text itself. Text features help you understand the material in a different way.
Glossary
Photographs
Headings
A photograph helps you understand what something looks like. There can also be important information provided in the photograph's caption.
A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms or words relating to a specific subject or text and their explanations. It is like a mini-dictionary.
A heading is a title at the top or the start of a page or section of a text. Headings help you identify a text's topic.
Charts, graphs, and diagrams
Sidebars
A sidebar is extra information set off from the rest of the text, frequently to the side of the main text. Sidebars can help keep you engaged in the text or aid your understanding of complex material.
These help you understand the information in connection to other information either by representing data as a picture or by showing something's structure.
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Summarizing
Steps for Effective Summarizing:
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Perfect Tenses
Perfect tense is used to show an action that is complete and finished when someone is speaking about it. Perfect tense verbs also have past, present, and future versions. To make a perfect tense, you need a form of have and a past participle. A past participle looks like a past tense verb. For example: I had walked home when it started raining. had = form of have walked = past participle
Extra Practice here ->
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Verb Moods
Indicative mood is used to make a statement. (related to the word indicate) Examples: The sky is blue. Julie plays basketball.
A verb's mood shows the attitude of the speaker. It is completely unrelated to verb tense (which tells when the action happens). The three most common moods are indicative, imperative, and interrogative.
Imperative mood is used to give a command. (if something is imperative, you must do it.) Examples: Please finish your homework before you go to the movies. Run five laps! Hint! ->
Interrogative mood is used to ask a question. (related to the word interrogate) Examples: What sport do you play? Where are you from? Hint! ->
Unit 1 Skills Test Review
Passive and active voice
Note how you can flip a sentence to make it active or passive. Example:
Forming an active voice is straightforward. The subject comes first, followed by the verb and the object. Example: I washed the laundry. To form a passive voice, the sentence order is flipped and the verb becomes a phrase. You also use a form of the word be with the participle. Forms of be: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been Example: The dishes were washed.
Active The dog chased the cat.
Extra Practice here ->
Passive The cat was chased by the dog.
The body contains additional information, like: Background Argument or story More specific details Quotes Support data Other helpful information.
Point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. By using a limited point of view, you may only know certain events and details depending on who is telling the story. This may create gaps, leading to a building of suspense in that you are unsure what is happening "behind the scenes."
The lead is the beginning of a news article. This section includes the main idea, or the author's overall message. The opening paragraph or two answers the 5 W's and 1 H: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
If you have ever bought a second book in a series or watched a movie or show sequel because you were desperate to find out what happens to the main characters, you have experienced a successful cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is a plot device used to keep an audience or reader anxious to find out what happens next, often through an unresolved situation. Cliffhangers are an abrupt ending to a building conflict or climax, leaving the audience or reader feeling as if they themselves are left hanging.
Elimination of details may help create suspense in that there are things left unknown. For example, if someone conspicuously avoids the third floor of their house and forbids others to enter it, it creates suspense about the third floor.
Settings are often just seen as the backdrop of the story, but they can be used to create suspense, both subtly and not so subtly. Look at the details closely. A "dark and stormy night" is not the only way an author can build suspense.
Hint! In order to tell the difference between indicative and imperative moods, look for clues like please or an exclamation point (!). Those clues hint that the sentence is a command rather than just a statement.
The tail comes at the end. This part includes other interesting or related information but is not crucial to understanding the main point of the article.
Think about the characters that you relate to or really like. Now, think of that character in a dangerous situation. Authors may create likable characters to ensure that you will feel suspense when the character is put into a stressful or difficult situation.
Hint! Look for the question mark (?) to identify the interrogative mood.