Canadian Daily Language Activities Grade 4

By Eleanor M Summers

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. 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.

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 developmentspellingreading skillsincludes 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 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/homonymscontractions

Capitalization

beginning of sentencesproper names/titles of peoplenames of placestitles of books, songs, poemsnames of days, months, holidaysabbreviations

Punctuation

punctuation at the end of a sentencecommas in a seriescommas in dates and addressescommas in compound sentencescommas in simple dialoguecommas after an introductory phrasecommas in direct address/parenthetical expressionscommas after appositivesperiods in abbreviationsuse of colonsquotation marks in speechquotation marks: poems, songs, storiesapostrophes in contractions and possessivesinterjectionspunctuation in a friendly letterrun-on sentencesunderlining: books, plays, poems, magazines

Grammar & Word Usage

pronounscommon/proper nounssingular/plural nounspossessive nounsverb forms and tensesdouble negativesadjectivescorrect article/determiner/adjectiveadverbsparts of speechcomparative/superlativesubject/predicatesubject-verb agreementidentifying sentences, sentence types, sentence combinations

Reading Comprehension

analogiescategorizationcause and effectfact or opinion and fact or fantasyfiction or nonfictionfigurative languageinferencesimile/metaphoridioms, proverbs

Reference Skills

alphabetical orderdictionary skillsreference materialsmedia sources

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771587334
• ISBN13: 9781771587334
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: On the Mark Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"