32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! There is an activity for every day of the week.... Yep... Monday to Friday! These NO PREP activities provide short and quick opportunities for students to review and reinforce skills in punctuation, grammar, spelling, language, and reading comprehension. Each weekly section provides daily skill review and assessment activities. The daily skill review and assessments are time savers and life savers, especially right after the bell rings!
The Bonus Activities that follow each week of skills are fun tasks of word and vocabulary puzzles, figurative language, and reading exercises. A short interesting fact about Canada is the finishing touch!
Activities 1 - 4 focus on:punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling
language and reading comprehension skills
Activity 5 focus on:a single language or reading skill
Bonus Activity: provides opportunities for extended activitiesword puzzles, vocabulary development
spelling
reading skills
includes a short, interesting fact about Canada
Student Progress Chart
Students may require a modelled example or individual assistance to complete their Progress Chart.Students record their daily scores for each Language Activity.
At the end of the week, they calculate their Total Score
At the end of four weeks, students evaluate their performance.
120 pages with an answer key.
This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:
Vocabulary and Word Skillsword meaning from context
root words
vowel sounds/consonant sounds
spelling
syllabication
synonyms/antonyms/homonyms
contractions
rhyming
compound words
word families
Capitalizationbeginning of sentences
proper names/titles of people
names of places
titles of books, songs, poems
names of days, months, holidays
abbreviations
Punctuationpunctuation at the end of a sentence
commas in a series
commas in dates and addresses
periods in abbreviations
quotation marks in speech
apostrophes in contractions
apostrophes in possessives
punctuation in a friendly letter
run-on sentences
Grammar and Word Usage Parts of Speech:nouns, pronouns
common/proper nouns
singular/plural nouns
possessive nouns
adjectives
verb forms
adverbs
double negatives
correct article/determiner
subject-verb agreement
identifying sentences: sentence vs not a sentence
sentence types
Reading Comprehensionanalogies
categorization
cause and effect
fact or opinion
real or make-believe
figurative language
sequencing
Reference Skillsalphabetical order
dictionary skills
