Study Guide and Test Tips for OCR Unit 2 Testing

Oral Fluency Exam:

The best way to prepare for this test is to practice 1-minute timed tests of your oral reading. You should use passages from your Anthology and have someone time you with a digital timer. Here is how your reading speed is determined:

• All the words that you have read in 1 minute are counted.
• Each word you misread is counted as a mistake.
• Each word you add (that isn’t there) counts as a mistake.
• Each word you leave out counts as a mistake.
• All the mistakes are subtracted from your 1-minute word count. The difference will be your reading speed.

Comprehension Test:

The best way to prepare for this test is to read, read, read AND practice using all the comprehension strategies that we have learned.

Grammar Skills Test:

The best way to prepare for this test is to review all of the “blue boxes” in your Language Arts Workbook. Review all of the assignments related to the blue boxes.

Review Guide:

Be able to recognize and analyze simple, compound and complex sentences.

Recognize the correct placement of capitalization and punctuation (periods, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, quotation marks).

Spelling Test:

Review Unit 2 Spelling Words.

Vocabulary Test:

Review Unit 2 Vocabulary Words

Writing Test:

• Use Practice Writing Prompts Listed on the Web.
• Review all the components required in starting a business.
• Brainstorm money-making ideas that you and your friends could use.
• Be ready to present, describe, explain, and summarize your ideas.
• Be ready to write a minimum of 3 paragraphs (thesis/opening paragraph, supporting/middle paragraph, and summation/closing paragraph).
• Practice using a writer’s checklist to help you revise and edit your work.
• Focus on clarity, organization, logical details, interesting vocabulary and, finally, correct spelling, mechanics and punctuation.
• This is a single performance test. All written work that you produce in our class is assessed using similar criteria and rubrics—this is not a one-time-only exercise.