Grade 9 · Alberta
ELA 9: reading closely, writing on purpose
Seven units built around what Grade 9 English asks you to do: read stories, poems, plays and nonfiction for what they say and how they say it, and write both a narrative or essay and a persuasive business email.
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7 units · 84 questions
Units
Concepts, practice questions and quizzes for every unit: Ideas and details, Story, Words and figures, Theme and purpose, Poetry and drama, Narrative or essay, Business email.
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12 printable sheets
Worksheets
Ten mixed questions per sheet with room to show work, and an answer key that prints on its own page.
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Toolkits
The ideas that show up everywhere, explained in full: answering a reading question, sentences that do more and more.
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About this course
Grade 9 English has no set text list, so these units are organized around what you are asked to do. The first five are about reading — stories, nonfiction, poems, plays and cartoons — and the last two are the two pieces of writing on the provincial achievement test.
The achievement test is half reading and half writing. The reading part is 55 questions on ten short texts you have never seen, asking you to find ideas and details, explain how a text is organized, work out what words and figures of speech mean, and put ideas together. The writing part is a narrative or essay on a given topic and a business email persuading someone in authority to act. In the narrative or essay, content and organization each count double.
The same habits carry straight into English 10-1, where the personal response and the literary essay grow out of exactly this writing.
Because you choose what you read in class, nothing here depends on a particular novel or play, and every passage in the questions was written for this site.