32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! There is 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. 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 spellinglanguage and reading comprehension skillsActivity 5 focus on:
a single language or reading skillBonus Activity: provides opportunities for extended activities
word puzzles, vocabulary developmentspellingreading skillsincludes a short, interesting fact about CanadaStudent 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 ScoreAt 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 contextroot words/prefixes/suffixesvowel soundsspellingsyllabicationsynonyms/antonyms/homonymscontractionsrhymingCapitalization
beginning of sentencesproper names/titles of peoplenames of placestitles of books, songs, poemsnames of days, months, holidaysabbreviationsPunctuation
punctuation at the end of a sentencecommas in a seriescommas in dates and addressescommas in simple dialogueperiods in abbreviationsuse of the colon in timequotation marks in speechquotation marks: poems, songs, storiesapostrophes in contractionsapostrophes in possessivespunctuation in a friendly letterrun-on sentencesunderlining: books, plays, poems, magazinesGrammar & Word Usage
pronounscommon/proper nounssingular/plural nounspossessive nounsverb formsdouble negativesadjectivescorrect article/determineradverbsparts of speechcomparative/superlativesubject/predicatesubject-verb agreementidentifying sentencessentence typessentence combinationsReading Comprehension
analogiescategorizationcause and effectfact or opinionfact or fiction/fantasyfiction or nonfictionfigurative languageinferenceReference Skills
alphabetical orderdictionary skillsreference materialsRelated Subjects
Language Arts