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SKILLS BANK 4 

~Writing Focus~ 

MONTGOMERY COLLEGE 

Student’s Name:________________________________Instructor:____________________________ 

READING: (Not detailed here) 

LANGUAGE: 

CAPITALIZATION 

___Pretest 

___First Word in a Sentence 

___First Word in a Quotation 

___Greetings and Closings in 

Letters 

___First Words Practice 

___Names and Initials of People 

and Pets 

___Names of Buildings, 

Monuments, Ships, etc. 

___Titles of Books, Magazines, 

Movies, etc. 

___Titles of School Courses 

___Names and Titles Practice 

___Quiz on lessons 1-7 

___Induction: Helping a Talented 

Writer Improve 

GRAMMAR AND USAGE 

___Pretest 

___Identifying Verbs 

___Identifying Subjects 

___Complete and Incomplete 

Sentences 

___Verbs and Subjects Practice 

___Difficult Verbs 

___Difficult Nouns 

___Difficult Verbs and Nouns 

Practice 


___Induction: A Television Writer 

Improves 

___Verb Agreement with Subject 

in Number 

___Verb Agreement with Tense 

of Sentence 

PUNCTUATION 

___Pretest 

___Periods After Sentences 

___Periods After Abbreviations 

___Question Marks 

___Exclamation Points 

___Question Marks and 

Exclamation Points Practice 

___Commas to Separate Items in 

Lists 

___Commas to Separate 

Quotations 


Independent Clauses 


Introductory Words 

___Commas I Practice 


___Induction: Editing a 

Reporter's Story 

___Proper Adjectives 

___The Pronoun "I" 

___Proper Adjectives and the 

Pronoun 'I' Practice 

___A Title Preceding a Person's 

Name 

___A Title Used in Place of a 

Person's Name 

___Titles That Are Not 

Capitalized 

___Titles Practice 


___Classification: Tutoring 

Groups Within a Class 

___Names of Racial, Ethnic, and 

Religious Groups 

___Irregular Verbs 

___Verb Agreement Practice 

___Double Negatives 

___Connective Words 

___Double Negatives and 

Connective Words Practice 

___Adjectives and Adverbs 

___Adjectives After 

State-of-Being & Sense Verbs 

___Comparatives and 

Superlatives 

___Confusing Adjectives and 

Adverbs 

___Adjectives and Adverbs 

Practice 


___Commas to Separate a City 

and State 

___Commas in Dates 

___Commas to Enclose 

Interrupting Phrases 

___Commas II Practice 

___Apostrophes in Contractions 

___Apostrophes to Show 

Possession 

___Apostrophes Practice 

___Quotation Marks to Enclose a 

Speaker's Words 

___Quotation Marks to Enclose 

Titles 

Quotation Marks Practice 


___Induction: The Case of the 

Missing Keys 

___Commas in Greetings and 

Closings of Letters 

___Names of Civic, Social, and 

Fraternal Groups 

___Names of Organizations, 

Businesses, etc. 

___Names of Businesses and 

Groups Practice 

___Names of Geographic and 

Political Divisions 

___Names of Natural Features 

___Names of Calendar Items 

___Names of Calendar Items 

Practice 


___Decision Making: Hiring a 

Secretary 

___Posttest 

___Classification: Substituting for 

the Tutor 

___Pronouns as Subjects 

___Pronouns as Objects 

___Pronouns as Subjects and 

Objects Practice 

___Possessive Forms of 

Pronouns 

___Reflexive Forms of Pronouns 

___Pronoun and Antecedent 

Agreement 

___Possessive and Reflexive 

Pronouns Practice 


___Analogies: Completing a 

Rhyme 

___Posttest 

___Colons After Greetings in 

Business Letters 

___Greetings and Closings of 

Letters Practice 

___Semicolons to Connect 

Independent Clauses 

___Semicolons to Reduce 

Confusion in Sentences 

___Colons Between Independent 

Clauses and Series 

___Colons to Separate Hours 

and Minutes 

___Semicolons and Colons 

Practice 


___Deduction: Beat the 

Computer 

___Posttest

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SPELLING 

___Pretest 

___Plurals Formed by Adding S 

___Plurals of Nouns Ending in S, 

X, CH, or SH 

___Plurals of Nouns Ending in 

Consonants and Y 


Vowels and Y 


Consonants and O 

___Plurals of Nouns Ending in F 

or FE 

___Irregular Plurals 

___Suffixes After Two 

Consonants 

___Suffixes After Two Vowels 

and a Consonant 

___Vowel Suffixes After a Vowel 

and a Consonant 

___Consonant Suffixes After 

Silent E 

___Vowel Suffixes After Silent E 


___Classification: Helping Carlos 

with Spelling 

___Suffixes After a Consonant 

and Y 

___Suffixes After a Vowel and Y 

___Words Ending in CEDE, 

SEDE, and CEED 

___Words Ending in ENT, ENCE, 

ANT, and ANCE 

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___Words Ending in ABLE and 

IBLE 


___Induction: Hunt for the 

Hidden Time Capsule 

___Using I Before E 

___Using E Before I 

___Silent Letters 

___Same-Sound Consonants 

___Same-Sound Vowels 


___Abstracting: Teaching a 

Friend Spelling Rules 

___Posttest 

MATHEMATICS (not implemented) 

___ 

___WRITING: 

LANGUAGE MECHANICS 

___Pretest 

___Capitalization and 

Punctuation in Letters 

___Identifying Errors in Personal 

Letters 

___Identifying Errors in Business 

Letters I 

___Identifying Errors in Business 

Letters II 


LANGUAGE USAGE 

___Pretest 

___Nouns -- A Review 

___Identifying Errors in Prose 

Passages 

___Pronouns -- A Review 


Passages II 

___Verbs -- Number and Form 


Passages III 

SENTENCE STRUCTURE 

___Pretest 

___Complete and Simple 

Subjects 

___Complete and Simple 

Predicates 

___Predicate Nominatives 

___Predicate Adjectives 

___Direct Objects 

CLEAR WRITING AND PARAGRAPHS 

___Pretest 

___Misplaced Modifiers 

___Dangling Modifiers 

___Unclear Pronoun Reference 


___Induction: Editor of the 

Pardeeville Gazette 

___Nonparallel Grammatical 

Forms 

___Wordiness 

Information Skills (Not detailed here) 

 

 

 

 

 

___Decision Making: Who 

Should Be Interviewed? 1 

___Capitalization and 

Punctuation in Quotations 


Passages I 


Passages II 

___Using Commas with Clauses 

and Phrases 


___Analogies: Teaming to 

Prepare for a Test 

___Verbs -- The Six Tenses 


Passages IV 

___Adjectives and Adverbs -- A 

Review 


Passages V 


___Problem Solving: Matching 

Pets with People 

___Patterns in Sentences 

___Sentence Fragments and 

Run-On Sentences 

___Combining Short Sentences 

___Combining Subordinate Ideas 

___Unnecessary Tense Shifts 

___Double Negatives 


___Classification: Writing and the 

Constitution 

___Identifying the Topic 

Sentence 

___Developing the Topic 

Sentence 

___Irrelevant Sentences0 

___ 


Passages III 


Passages IV0 


___Induction: Sticky Keys and 

Sticky Rules2 

 

___Posttest 

___Prepositions -- A Review 


Passages VI 


___Sequencing: Editing a Sports 

Story 

___Posttest 


___Problem Solving: Favorite 

Toys2 

 

___Posttest 

___Connecting Ideas in a 

Paragraph1 

___Paragraph Logic and 

Organization2 


___Sequencing: Writing a 

Humorous Story 

 

___Posttest

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