ELA Worksheets

Learning Objectives

• Explain key discussion norms for collaborative conversations (taking turns, respectful language, and staying on topic).
• Use active listening strategies to connect responses to others’ ideas.
• Apply discussion norms to a structured small-group conversation.

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• Identify how simple, compound, complex, and expanded sentences affect meaning, emphasis, and rhythm.
• Use coordinating and subordinating relationships to connect ideas clearly in writing.
• Vary sentence openings and lengths to maintain focus and reduce monotony in a persuasive paragraph or short report.

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• Identify domain-specific terms and explain how their meanings fit the topic.
• Use context clues to choose the correct definition of a term from a content area.
• Distinguish between everyday meanings and content-area meanings of words such as distance, speed, and acceleration.+ Show more

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• Use context clues to determine the meaning of academic and domain-specific vocabulary words.
• Identify how surrounding sentences, examples, restatements, and comparisons help select the correct meaning of a word.
• Distinguish between multiple possible meanings by using how a word functions in a sentence.

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• Identify and use synonyms and antonyms to clarify meaning in academic writing
• Recognize degrees of meaning and choose the most precise word among similar terms
• Explain how word relationships (categories, comparisons, and contrasts) affect tone, connotation, and specificity+ Show more

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• Identify how two informational sources present the same event or topic through their selected details and emphasis.
• Compare similarities and differences between accounts and explain how those choices affect understanding.
• Use evidence from text to support claims about why accounts may reach different conclusions.

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• Analyze how sentence-level qualifiers, conditions, and comparisons refine an author’s claim
• Evaluate how paragraph openings and closings reframe logic, resolve tension, or narrow conclusions
• Use textual evidence to explain how transitions and recurring structures show argument development

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• Identify how a topic sentence controls the purpose of a paragraph in an argumentative or explanatory piece.
• Revise paragraphs to remove unrelated ideas and maintain logical alignment between claims and supporting details.
• Use evidence and explanation that directly match the controlling claim to prevent contradictions and digressions.+ Show more

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• Identify common reasons a draft is unclear and choose revision strategies to improve clarity.
• Revise a paragraph by strengthening organization, adding evidence, and clarifying relationships between ideas.
• Edit sentences to remove redundancy and improve precision while preserving the original meaning.

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• Use colons to introduce lists, definitions, or quotations that directly explain a preceding independent clause.
• Use semicolons to correctly join independent clauses when the relationship is logical and each clause can stand alone.
• Revise sentences to prevent fragments and to maintain emphasis in analytical writing.

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• Explain how changing perspective can alter a reader’s understanding of events and motives.
• Identify textual evidence that shows what information is foregrounded or backgrounded in a narrative.
• Evaluate how shifts in emotional angle or framing affect reliability and interpretation.

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• Explain how direct quotations and paraphrases support a claim using evidence from a text.
• Distinguish between quoting and paraphrasing while maintaining meaning and accuracy.
• Integrate evidence smoothly by connecting the cited detail to the interpretation.

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• Identify an author’s purpose by analyzing how details, facts, and examples are chosen and presented.
• Use language clues (tone words, persuasive wording, explanations, and recommendations) to determine author viewpoint.
• Explain how different purposes (inform, explain, entertain, persuade) change the meaning of a text.

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• Identify how adjective, adverbial, and prepositional phrases add descriptive detail to sentences.
• Choose the most precise placement of phrases to reduce ambiguity about what a phrase describes.
• Revise sentences by moving phrases to clarify meaning while keeping the original sentence structure.

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• Organize a formal presentation with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion that returns to the main claim
• Use purposeful transitions and academic language to connect ideas logically
• Present evidence accurately by matching each claim to what sources actually show+ Show more

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• Identify how topic sentences and supporting details work together to create meaning in an informational paragraph.
• Analyze how transitions signal relationships (cause, contrast, sequence) within paragraph structure.
• Explain paragraph patterns such as claim-and-support and problem-and-consequences.

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• Use periods to end declarative (statement) sentences.
• Use question marks and exclamation points to match sentence type and meaning.
• Revise sentences so every complete sentence ends with one appropriate end punctuation mark.

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• Explain how transition phrases and reference words improve coherence in writing.
• Identify transitions that signal relationships such as cause/effect, sequence, contrast, and addition.
• Revise sentences to strengthen connections between ideas and paragraphs.

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• Revise sentences to improve clarity by using precise word choice and correct sentence structure.
• Check pronoun references so pronouns clearly match the nouns they replace.
• Rewrite confusing or incomplete sentences into complete thoughts.+ Show more

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• Identify major authors and foundational works and explain how they establish enduring themes and literary structures.
• Analyze how historical and cultural context informs a text’s themes, character choices, and conflicts.
• Describe relationships among texts across time by comparing shared motifs, archetypes, and moral dilemmas.

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• Explain how point of view shapes what a reader trusts, notices, and doubts in a text.
• Analyze how a narrator’s distance from events and limits of knowledge affect interpretations of motives and consequences.
• Identify textual signals (language choices, access to thoughts, and narrative framing) that reveal point of view.+ Show more

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• Use domain-specific vocabulary to communicate precise ideas within a text’s topic and purpose.
• Integrate technical terms clearly by adding nearby clarification and maintaining consistent usage.
• Revise sentences to replace general words with accurate field-specific terminology.

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• Identify where commas belong after introductory words, phrases, and clauses before the main clause.
• Use commas to separate subordinate (dependent) ideas from independent ideas to improve meaning.
• Revise sentences by correcting comma placement to prevent run-ons and unclear relationships.

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• Restate information from a text using new wording while preserving the original meaning.
• Identify and include key details when writing a paraphrased support statement.
• Avoid copying text too closely and avoid omitting important information.+ Show more

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• Analyze how internal desires and external pressures create sustained conflict in literature.
• Explain how dialogue, gestures, and character decisions escalate relationships across scenes.
• Trace character objectives over time to determine how conflicts transform meaning for multiple characters.

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• Explain how word roots, prefixes, and suffixes help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Use common prefixes to interpret ideas about negation, time, or position.
• Use common suffixes to infer meaning about word tense or category.+ Show more

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• Analyze how multiple sources contribute to a single coherent claim by connecting evidence to ideas.
• Synthesize themes across texts by explaining agreements, reconciling differences, and refining conclusions.
• Identify the specific contribution of each source to a larger interpretation.+ Show more

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• Edit writing by checking sentence-ending punctuation, commas in dates and addresses, and apostrophes in contractions and possessives.
• Correct spelling and capitalization errors so the writer’s intended meaning stays clear.
• Revise a short passage using a final review that keeps the message and tone consistent.

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• Use general academic vocabulary (such as describe, analyze, and contrast) to write clearer claims and explanations.
• Apply domain-specific vocabulary (such as ecosystem and legislature) accurately by matching terms to context.
• Explain how precise word choice supports understanding of evidence and relationships between ideas.

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• Analyze how informational texts use ordered steps to explain how outcomes are reached
• Identify transitions and cause-and-effect relationships that connect phases of a process
• Use explanatory details (constraints, measurements, tools) to interpret an author’s explanation

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• Explain how common prefixes and suffixes change or refine the meaning of a word.
• Use word-part knowledge to predict meanings of unfamiliar words in context.
• Apply spelling and spelling-change rules when adding prefixes and suffixes.

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• Identify the central idea of an explanatory or long-form text by focusing on what the author consistently develops.
• Trace how supporting details, examples, and explanations refine or extend a central idea across sections of a text.
• Distinguish between a text’s central idea and narrower supporting details, subtopics, and themes.

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• Infer a word’s meaning by using context clues from the surrounding sentences and examples.
• Distinguish between figurative meanings and literal, technical meanings in academic texts.
• Explain how authors use comparisons, definitions, or illustrations to clarify vocabulary.

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• Explain how supporting evidence strengthens a claim by connecting concrete information to the writer’s point.
• Choose relevant evidence for a specific audience and purpose.
• Paraphrase accurately while acknowledging sources to avoid misleading or borrowed content.

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• Identify the main idea of a paragraph using supporting details and the author’s focus
• Determine how repeated ideas and connected details help organize a passage
• Summarize a text by stating the central point in one or two sentences

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• Explain how planning, drafting, revising, and editing work together to produce a coherent piece of writing
• Identify effective revision and editing moves that improve clarity, organization, and correctness
• Apply writing-process strategies to improve a draft using evidence from a writing plan

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• Define a claim precisely by stating the central position directly and limiting the scope to what the text will support.
• Identify how argumentative writing stays focused through consistent terminology and point of view.
• Revise sentences to reduce drift by strengthening topic-claim alignment and narrowing supporting details.

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• Explain how synthesis builds a coherent understanding that combines ideas and evidence from multiple texts.
• Compare similarities and differences across texts, including distinct claims and varying emphasis.
• Use cross-text details to support an overall synthesis claim that goes beyond any single source.+ Show more

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• Identify context clues (example, restatement, and cause-and-effect) that help determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
• Use clue words and nearby sentences to choose a likely word meaning in a short passage.
• Explain how a specific sentence or phrase acts as a context clue.

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• Revise sentences to strengthen coherence by adding logical transitions within and across paragraphs.
• Replace repeated terms with precise pronouns or synonyms while keeping referents clear.
• Improve the order of ideas so causes come before effects and explanations follow evidence.

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• Use word parts (prefixes, suffixes, and root words) to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Use context clues to confirm or adjust a word-part meaning guess.
• Select more precise vocabulary choices to improve descriptive and explanatory writing.

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• Identify common prefixes and suffixes and explain how they change a word’s meaning.
• Use base words and word parts to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Recognize how prefixes and suffixes can signal change or negation and compare or describe qualities.

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• Determine a story’s theme by identifying the central message or insight the author develops through events and conflicts
• Distinguish theme from topic by explaining how theme connects to character actions and evidence from the text
• Write a clear theme statement that expresses a relationship between ideas (not just a subject)

Learning Objectives

• Identify characters and explain their roles in a story.
• Describe how the setting (where and when) affects events and mood.
• Explain how events build from beginning to end when summarizing a text.

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• Use semicolons correctly to connect closely related independent clauses.
• Distinguish semicolon use from comma and period use in sentences with independent clauses.
• Use colons to introduce lists, explanations, or elaboration that directly follow a leading statement.+ Show more

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• Use correct parts of speech and word forms to improve clarity in Grade 10 writing
• Maintain consistent verb tense and correct agreement to strengthen sentence meaning
• Apply conventional capitalization and spelling rules in formal writing+ Show more

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• Identify sentence fragments and explain why they are incomplete thoughts.
• Recognize run-on sentences and choose the correct punctuation or conjunction to fix them.
• Revise sentences to improve clarity by correcting fragments and run-ons.

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• Infer an author’s purpose by analyzing structure, emphasis, and the selection of details in nonfiction and editorials.
• Identify audience awareness through diction, level of explicitness, and concessions or appeals within a text.
• Explain how purpose, evidence, and perspective work together to shape an author’s intent.