9th grade reading, grammar, and vocab
Our standards-aligned grade 9 ELA course helps students develop reading comprehension and grammar skills, master high-utility vocabulary, and build reading stamina as they analyze a variety of engaging, on-level texts. Learners complete targeted practice exercises, as well as "long passage" exercises that allow them to practice integrated skills and prepare for assessments.
16 units99 videos7 hours
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Unit 1: Vocabulary
Roots and affixes
Unit 2: Reading: Key ideas and details
Citing text evidence
Determining central idea, summary, and theme
Analyzing idea and character development
Unit 3: Reading: Key ideas and details | Long passage practice
Unit 4: Grammar: Nouns
Building Knowledge
Plural nouns
Unit 5: Grammar: Pronouns
Building knowledge
Pronoun case, person, and number
Possessive, indefinite, and demonstrative pronouns
Reflexive and intensive pronouns
Unit 6: Grammar: Verbs
Building knowledge
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tenses and aspects
Mood and modals
Unit 7: Reading: Craft and structure
Interpreting words in context
Analyzing text structure
Identifying author's purpose and rhetoric
Unit 8: Reading: Craft and structure | Long passage practice
Unit 9: Grammar: Adjectives and adverbs
Choosing among adjectives and adverbs
Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
Relative adverbs
Unit 10: Grammar: Prepositions and interjections
Prepositions and prepositional phrases
Unit 11: Grammar: Sentences, clauses, and phrases
Building knowledge
Clauses
Parenthetical elements and modifiers
Run-ons and comma splices
Coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences
Subordinating conjunctions and complex sentences
Compound-complex sentences
Correlative conjunctions
Unit 12: Reading: Integration of knowledge and ideas
Using visual and quantitative evidence
Evaluating claims and arguments
Comparing two texts
Understanding historical documents and allusions
Unit 13: Reading: Integration of knowledge and ideas | Long passage practice
Unit 14: Grammar: Punctuation and capitalization
Introduction to commas
Commas to separate items, descriptions, and clauses
Punctuating text evidence and dialogue
Hyphens and dashes
Ellipses
Unit 15: Grammar: Word study
Frequently confused words
Roots and affixes
Figurative language
Unit 16: Grammar: Style and tone
Parallel structure
Consistency in style and tone
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