Language Arts: Reading
YOUR STEPS TO SUCCESS!!
Step 1: The Official Language Arts: Reading Practice Test will be mailed to you. This is half the length of the actual GED test. Please complete the test within the time limits and mail back to us in the envelope provided. The instructors will correct your test and tell you your Standard Score.
Step 2: We will be using the Steck-Vaughn Complete GED
Preparation book copywrite 2002. Check
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to purchase one. The Adult Learning Center charges $20.00 + postage for the
book.
Step 3: Time to begin!!
Turn to page 364. Page 364-365
gives information about this test.
Click on the
following lessons. Start with Lesson One and go in order.
Each lesson
builds on the previous lessons.
Links to
extra notes and websites will be provided in each section as they are completed.
Email your answers to
Williston email:
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Interpreting
Nonfiction
Lessons 1 - 9
Lesson One:
Finding Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Lesson Two:
Summarizing Major Ideas
Lesson Three: Restating Information
Lesson Four:
Applying Ideas
Lesson Five:
Making Inferences
Lesson Six:
Identifying Style and Tone
Lesson Seven: Drawing
Conclusions
Lesson Eight:
Comparing and Contrasting Ideas
Lesson Nine:
Recognizing Author's Viewpoint
Review:
Interpreting Nonfiction
Understanding
Fiction
Lessons 10-19
Lesson Ten:
Getting Meaning From Context
Lesson Eleven:
Identifying Plot Elements
Lesson Twelve:
Applying Ideas
Lesson Thirteen:
Identifying Cause and Effect
Lesson Fourteen:
Analyzing Character
Lesson Fifteen:
Analyzing Tone
Lesson Sixteen:
Identifying
Figurative Language
Lesson Seventeen: Making
Inferences
Lesson Eighteen:
Comparing and Contrasting
Lesson Nineteen:
Interpreting Theme
Review:
Understanding Fiction
Understanding
Poetry
Lessons 20-24
Lesson Twenty:
Identifying the Effects of Rhythm and Rhyme
Lesson Twenty-One:
Interpreting Figurative Language
Lesson Twenty-Two:
Interpreting Symbols and Images
Lesson Twenty-Three: Making
Inferences
Lesson Twenty-Four: Interpreting Theme
Review:
Understanding Poetry
Understanding
Drama
Lessons 25-28
Lesson Twenty-Five:
Understanding Plot
Lesson Twenty-Six:
Inferring Character
Lesson Twenty-Seven: Understanding Motivation
Lesson Twenty-Eight:
Interpreting Theme
Review:
Understanding Drama
Unit Review Page 450 - 455
Simulated Language Arts: Reading Test
Official Practice
Tests
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GED Testing Center Information
Link to GED Preparation Tests for Science, Social Studies, Math, and Writing
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Lesson
One: Assignment
Read page 366. Email the answers to the following
questions:
1. Name 5 nonfiction
sources.
2. What is the purpose of
nonfiction sources?
3. Common type of reading
material ________________ or _____________.
4. Give an example of where you
might find a "How to do Something".
5. Give an example of where you
might find a reading that gives information.
6. Tell what a main idea
is.
7. From your book-tell what topic sentence
is. (Tip: How do you know if you have
the
topic
sentence? Turn the sentence into a question. If the other sentences seem
to
answer
the "question" then you have the topic sentence).
8. Tell what supporting
details are.
9. What does infer mean?
10. There is a TIP at the bottom of the
page. What is the TIP?
Complete the questions on page 367-368. Check your answers on page 803. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
More information on Main Ideas is found at:
http://www.ccis.edu/departments/cae/studyskills/mainidea.html
http://elearn.mtsac.edu/amla/51/Main%20Idea/Mainidea.htm
http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/617.htm
More information on Topic Sentences is found at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/paragraphs.html
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm
http://www.scis.nova.edu/~sartorem/topic_sentence.htm
More information on Supporting Details is found at:
http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Supporting%20Details/details.htm
http://elearn.mtsac.edu/amla/readingroom/details.htm
http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/308.HTM
You can't comprehend the subject matter if you
haven't identified the topic, the main idea, and the supporting details.
Lesson
Two: Assignment
Read page 369.
Email answers to the following questions.
1. Summarizing is often called "Active Reading
Strategy". Why?
2. Headings are often used to summarize
__________________.
3. What does summarize mean?
4. There is a TIP on the left side of the page. What is
the TIP?
Complete the questions on page 370. Check your answers on page 803. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
More information on Active Reading Strategies and Summarizing
can be found at:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/sources/working/pop9.cfm
http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/active.htm
http://www.study.dmu.ac.uk/KeySkills/guides/C3ii.pdf
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Lesson
Three: Assignment
Read page 371. Email answers to the following
questions.
1. Restating is an "Active Reading Strategy".
You use this everyday. Restating is used to
________________ and
______________ your understanding of written materials.
2. What does restating mean?
3. There is a TIP on the bottom left side of the page.
What is the TIP?
4. On question 2a: what was your answer to "More
efficient"? 2b: "More welcome"?
2c: "More adaptable"?
Complete the questions on pages 372-373. Check your answers on page 804. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
More information on Reading and Restating can be found at:
http://student.esuhsd.org/study_skills/lessons/Lesson_11.pdf
Lesson Four: Assignment
Read page 374. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is applying ideas? Give an example of
applying an idea.
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What is the TIP?
3. There is a TIP on the bottom right of page 376. What
is the TIP?
Complete the questions on pages 375-376. Check your answers on page 805. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Five: Assignment
Read page 377. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is making an inference?
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What is the TIP?
3. There is a TIP on the bottom right of page 379. What
is the TIP?
Complete the questions on pages 378-379. Check your answers on page 805. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Six: Assignment
Read page 380. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is style?
2. The writer chooses a style of writing that best
_______________________________.
3. What results from style?
4. What is tone?
5. There is a TIP on the left side. What is the TIP?
6. There is a TIP on the bottom left on page 381. What
is the TIP?
Complete the questions on page 381. Check your answers on page 806. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Seven: Assignment
Read page 382. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does drawing conclusions mean?
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What is the TIP?
3. There is a TIP on the bottom left of page 383. What
is the TIP?
Complete the questions on page 383-384. Check your answers on page 806. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Eight: Assignment
Read page 385. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does compare mean?
2. What does contrast mean?
3. Writers use comparison and contrast to organize
ideas based on _________ and _______.
4. Certain "clue words" signal when things
are being compared or contrasted. Look at
the TIP box. What are some of the
clue words found in that box?
5. There is a TIP on the bottom right on page 386. What
is the TIP?
Complete the questions on page 386-387. Check your answers on page 807. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Nine: Assignment
Read page 388. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a writer's viewpoint?
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What is the TIP?
3. There is a TIP on the bottom right side on page 391.
What does the TIP say?
Complete the questions on pages 389-390. Check your answers on page 808. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Review Interpreting
Nonfiction
Email the answers to the following questions.
1. There is a TIP at the bottom right on page 391. What
is the TIP?
2. Are you have any problems with any of the lessons
from 1-9?
Complete the questions on pages 390-391. Check your answers on page 808. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Ten: Assignment
Read page 392. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Fiction is a form of writing. This form tells a
______________.
2. Name the 2 most common works of fiction.
3. What does context mean?
4. How do you use context?
5. If you cannot figure out the exact meaning of a
word, ________ from the context will help.
6. There is a TIP at the left side of the page. What
does it say?
Complete the questions on pages 393-394. Check your answers on page 809. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Eleven:Assignment
Read page 395. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does the plot do in writing?
2. Plot has a ___________, ____________, and
_________.
3. The beginning plot does what?
4. The middle plot does what?
5. The end plot does what?
6. There is a TIP at the left side of the page. What
does it say?
Complete the questions on page 396. Check your answers on page 809. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Twelve: Assignment
Read page 397. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How do you show understanding of what you read?
2. Apply means what?
3. Writers usually develop characters that act
__________________.
4. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
it say?
Complete the questions on page 398. Check your answers on page 810. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Thirteen:Assignment
Read page 399. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. A cause is an initial action of a
____________, ____________, or ____________.
2. What is a cause?
3. An effect is what?
4. How do fiction writers use cause and effect?
5. There is a TIP at the left side of the page. What
does it say?
6. There is a TIP at the bottom right side of page 401.
What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 399-400. Check your answers on page 810. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Fourteen:
Assignment
Read page 402. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Why do fiction writers create characters?
2. What does a character mean to a writer?
3. How do writers develop characters?
4. There is a TIP on the left side of pate 402. What
does it say?
Complete the questions on page 403-404. Check your answers on page 811. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Fifteen: Assignment
Read page 405. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is tone?
2. The writer's words show how he/she feels about a
story. The can show ___________,
_______________,
______________, or ___________________.
3. What is mood?
4. Can the mood be the same as or different from
the tone? Yes or No?
5. How does the writer create feelings of tone and
mood?
6. There is a TIP at the left side. What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 406-408. Check your answers on page 811. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Sixteen: Assignment
Read page 409. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a vivid image?
2. What is figurative language?
3. Figurative language is based on
____________________________.
4. What is a simile?
5. What is a metaphor?
6. What is a symbol?
7. Literal language is ______________. Figurative
language is ______________.
8. There is a TIP at the bottom left. What does it say?
9.. There is a TIP at the bottom right on page 410. What does
it say?
Complete the questions on page 410. Check your answers on page 812. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Seventeen:
Assignment
Read page 411. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does making an inference mean?
2. When reading fiction you make inferences by:
1)_________________ and 2)___________.
3. Writers imply information about __________,
___________, __________, and ________.
4. There is a TIP at the left side. What does it say?
5. There is a TIP at the bottom right side on page 414.
What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 412-414. Check your answers on page 813. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Eighteen:
Assignment
Read page 415. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does compare mean?
2. What does contrast mean?
3. Writers compare and contrast the characters'
______________ in a story.
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
5. There is a TIP box at the bottom right side on page
416. What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 416. Check your answers on page 814. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Nineteen:
Assignment
Read page 417. Email the answers to the follow questions.
1. What is a theme?
2. Sometimes theme is compared to the
_____________of the story.
3. What does moral mean?
4. Morals are often stated at the _________ of a
________.
5. A theme simply expresses the author's
____________________________________.
6. A theme is usually stated directly or not directly?
_________________
7. There is a TIP at the left side. What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 418 419. Check your answers on page 814. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Review Understanding
Fiction
Complete the questions on page 420 - 421. Check your
answers on page 815.
Complete the following questions and email them.
1. There is a TIP on page 421. What does it say?
2. Did you have any problems with lessons 10-19?
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Lesson Twenty: Assignment
Read page 422. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Poetry is a special kind of writing which uses
_____________language.
2. The descriptive language is used to create
______________ or _____________.
3. Poetry appeals to ______________, the _____________,
or the _____________.
4. People write poems to express their _______________
or tell a ______________.
5. Music is poetry in __________ lyrics.
6. Poetry is written in ______________ while fiction
and nonfiction is written in ________
and ______________.
7. Poets use word patterns called ____________ and
____________ to create sound effects.
8. What is rhythm?
9. What is rhyme?
10. All poems have a ____________.
11. The beat in a poem may be _______ or ______and may be
__________ or __________.
12. Rhythm is created by a pattern of ______________ syllables.
13. Rhythm may also be created by the use of
___________________.
14. Give an example of a rhyme.
15. There is a TIP at the bottom of page 422 and 423. What do they
say?
Complete page 423-424. Check your answers on page 815. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Twenty-one:
Assignment
Read page 425. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is figurative language?
2. Name one type of figurative language.
3. What is personification?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it
say?
5. There is a TIP box on the bottom right side of page
426. What does it say?
Complete page 426. Check your answers on page 816. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Twenty-two:
Assignment
Read page 427. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a symbol in a poem?
2. Sometimes the symbol is difficult to recognize so
you have to look at the ___________
to figure it out.
3. What is an image in a poem?
4. Why does the poet create images?
5. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
it say?
Complete page 428-429. Check your answers on page 817. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Twenty-three:
Assignment
Read page 430. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is inference in a poem?
2. Once you have considered the facts and information,
you can make a _____________
decision on what the poem is
all about.
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
Complete page 431-432. Check your answers on page 817. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Twenty-four:
Assignment
Read page 433. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a theme in poetry?
2. Usually the theme in poetry is not directly stated.
You have to ___________ it.
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
4. There is a TIP centered on the bottom of page 435.
What does it say?
Complete page 434-435. Check your answers on page 818. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Review Understanding
Poetry
Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does the TIP say on page 437?
2. Did you have any trouble with lessons 20-24?
Complete the questions on page 436-437. Check your answers on page 819. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Twenty-five:
Assignment
Read page 438. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. A play has a ________, ____________, and an
_________.
2. What is a plot?
3. The exposition gives ______________ information.
4. The exposition introduces the _____________ and the
_____________.
5. What creates conflict? ____________________
6. Conflict is a problem that needs to be
_______________.
7. When conflict reaches its fullest height it is
called _____________.
8. The climax represents the _________ _____________ in
the play.
9. The ______________ is when the climax comes to an
end and is resolved.
10. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 439. Check your answers on page 819. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Lesson Twenty-six:
Assignment
Read page 440. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are characters in a drama?
2. The main character is called a protagonist. What
does a protagonist do?
3. Dialogue may reveal what?
4. Actions of characters are __________,
______________, and ______________.
5. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 441-442. Check your answers on page 820. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Twenty-seven:
Assignment
Read page 443. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is motivation?
2. Plays are told entirely through ______________ and
____________.
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 444. Correct your answers on page 820. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Lesson Twenty-eight:
Assignment
Read page 445. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is the central idea of a play called?
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
Complete the questions on page 446-447. Correct your answers on page 821. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
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Review Understanding Drama
Email answers to the following questions.
1. There is a TIP box on the right side of page 449.
What does it say?
2. Did you have any trouble with Lessons 25-28?
Complete the questions on page 448-449. Check your answers on page 822. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
Unit Review
Email answers to the following questions.
1. There is a TIP on the bottom of page 453. What does
it say?
2. There is a TIP on the bottom of page 455. What does
it say?
3. After you have completed the Unit Review you are
ready to try the simulated test found on
page 689. Follow the Simulated
Test link.
4. You may also email us for the second Official
Practice Test.
Complete the questions on page 450-455. Check your answers on page 823. Email how many you had right out of these questions.
When you have finished the the Language Arts: Reading please email for the number of your next GED subject.
The posttest is found on page 689-703. The Answer Sheet is found on page 919. You have 65 minutes to answer 40 questions. Do not spend too much time on any one question. Make sure you fill in all the answers. If you are running out of time and have some questions unanswered fill in the unanswered questions. If you do not fill them in, they will be counted wrong. You may just guess a right answer.
The answers and explanations are found on page 874-877.
The Performance Analysis Chart for Reading is found on page 704. Please email the results of your analysis chart or email and request that the form be emailed to you to fill in and send back.
Official
Half Test for Reading
If you would like to take the PB Version of the Official Practice Test for Reading email us at
Email Address
Williston email:
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we will send it to you. Please mail the test and answer key back and your results will be emailed to you. If you score at least 450 you are ready to schedule your GED Language Arts: Reading test.
WEB Sites-For GED Practice
Websites for GED Reading and sample tests :
http://www.gedpractice.com/
Great site. Will need to register the first time.
http://www.4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=38
Has many pop-ups, but good GED practice.
http://www.criticalreading.com/
Fundamentals of Critical Reading.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/index.html
Literature - What Makes a Good Story
Please call Diane at 774-4228 or Jan at 774-4594 to schedule your test. If this is your first test you need to bring a photo ID, $15.00, and your demographics sheet. Any questions about the demographics, please call the Williston Adult Learning Center at 572-5886.
If you are from Pembina or Walsh counties you will need to bring $15.00, photo ID, and your demographics sheet. Call the Grafton Adult Learning Center at 352-3705 ext. 424 for more information.
If you are from Minot or Ward county please call Minot Adult Learning Center at 857-4488 for more information and to make an appointment to test.
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