Literature

READING WORKSHOP 1 • Paraphrasing and Summarizing

Skills Review

Key Reading Skill: Paraphrasing

and Summarizing

7. Review the list of main ideas and supporting
   details that you made in your Learner’s Notebook.
   Use your list as a guide. Decide which one of the
   sentences below best summarizes the selection.

• The author once believed that three-way telephone
  service was the ultimate in communication.


• The author thinks that young people are learning to
  use the Internet in new and interesting ways.


• The author worries that online communication
  encourages kids to spell incorrectly.

Key Literary Element: Author’s Craft

8. What do the words and phrases that the author uses
   make you think or feel? Does the tone of the selec-
   tion give you clues about the author’s opinion?


9. What does the author’s craft tell you about the
   author’s purpose for writing? Give some examples.

Vocabulary Check

Rewrite each sentence with the correct word in place.

atrocious monitor decipher poised

10. The author struggled to her daughter’s

writing.

11. Her hands were above the keyboard, ready
    to type.


12. The author stands behind her daughter to
    her daughter’s use of the Internet.


13. The author is shocked by her daughter’s
    spelling.


14. English Language Coach Write the base
    words, with their original spelling if necessary, for
    each word below.

education unlearning incoming

planner beautiful truly

Grammar Link: Phrases

A phrase is two or more words that make sense

together but do not contain a subject and predicate.

• A verb phrase contains one or more helping verbs
  followed by a main verb.
  We have watched the team often.
  Lucia has been hitting the ball well!


• As you know, verbs often have objects—nouns or
  pronouns that complete their meaning. Prepositions
  always do. So, a preposition is always part of a
  phrase.
  Ted worked for hours.
  Drivers on the crowded highway honked loudly.

Besides the preposition and its object, a prepositional

phrase often includes modifiers, such as crowded and

loudly in the sentence above.

• Prepositional phrases themselves are modifiers.
  There are adjective phrases and adverb phrases.

Adjective: The bird in the pet store is chirping.

Adverb: We bought our bird in the pet store.

Grammar Practice

Copy the sentences below and underline the preposi-

tional phrase in each.

15. We have been friends since September.

16. Life would be dull without her.

17. After school we do homework together.


18. One of her best subjects is social studies.

Writing Application Look back at the letter you

wrote. Underline three prepositional phrases you used.

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