Class IX English
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
Foreign words and expressions
Word usage and nuance
Analogies
Context clues
Reference skills
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments and run-ons
Phrases and clauses
Pronouns
- Z.1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
- Z.2 Subject and object pronouns review
- Z.3 Pronouns after ‘than’ and ‘as’
- Z.4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with ‘who’
- Z.5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- Z.6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- Z.7 Identify vague pronoun references
- Z.8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
- Z.9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Verb types
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Misplaced modifiers
Restrictive and non-restrictive elements
Commas
Semicolons, colons and commas
Dashes, hyphens and ellipses
Apostrophes
Capitalisation
Formatting
Writing strategies
Organising writing
Topic sentences
G.1 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
Developing and supporting arguments
- H.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
- H.2 Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
- H.3 Choose the best evidence to support a claim
- H.4 Identify supporting evidence in a text
- H.5 Evaluate counterclaims
- H.6 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
- H.7 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims
Persuasive strategies
Creative techniques
Writing clearly and concisely
Active and passive voice
Editing and revising
- M.1 Use the correct frequently confused word
- M.2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
- M.3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
- M.4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- M.5 Correct errors in everyday use
- M.6 Suggest appropriate revisions
Research skills
Reading strategies
Main idea
Audience, purpose and tone
Literary devices
Analysing literature
Analysing informational texts
- E.1 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
- E.2 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
- E.3 Trace an argument: set 1
- E.4 Trace an argument: set 2
- E.5 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
- E.6 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2