32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! An activity for every day of the week, Monday to Friday! 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. The daily skill review and assessments are time and life savers, especially right after the bell rings! The Bonus Activities are fun tasks of word and vocabulary puzzles, figurative language, and reading exercises.
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 activities
- word puzzles, vocabulary development
- spelling
- reading skills
- includes a short, interesting fact about Canada
Student 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.
This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:
Vocabulary & Word Skills
- word meaning from context
- root words/prefixes/suffixes
- spelling
- syllabication
- synonyms/antonyms/homonyms
- contractions
Capitalization
- beginning of sentences
- proper names/titles of people
- names of places
- titles of books, songs, poems
- names of days, months, holidays
- abbreviations
Punctuation
- punctuation at the end of a sentence
- commas in a series
- commas in dates and addresses
- commas in a compound and complex sentences
- commas after an introductory phrase/clause
- commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions
- commas after appositives and between adjectives
- periods in abbreviations/initials
- punctuation & capitalization in simple dialogue
- use of colons & semicolons
- quotation marks in speech
- quotation marks: poems, songs, stories
- apostrophes in contractions and possessives
- punctuation in a friendly letter & business letters
- run-on sentences
- underlining: books, plays, poems, magazines
Grammar & Word Usage
- pronouns: subject/object, possessive
- pronoun antecedent
- singular/plural nouns
- possessive nouns
- verb tenses, types and parts
- active & passive voice
- double negatives
- types of adjectives and adverbs
- the correct form of adjective and adverbs
- correct article/determiner/adjective/adverb
- comparative/superlative forms
- subject/predicate
- subject-verb agreement
- phrases & clauses
- sentence parts and types
- sentence structure and fragments and combinations
Reading Comprehension
- analogies
- figurative language
- inference, idioms, proverbs
Reference Skills
- dictionary/thesaurus skills
- outlines and summaries
