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 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 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.




This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:
Vocabulary & Word Skillsword meaning from context
root words/prefixes/suffixes
vowel sounds
spelling
syllabication
synonyms/antonyms/homonyms
contractions
rhyming


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
commas in simple dialogue
periods in abbreviations
use of the colon in time
quotation marks in speech
quotation marks: poems, songs, stories
apostrophes in contractions
apostrophes in possessives
punctuation in a friendly letter
run-on sentences
underlining: books, plays, poems, magazines


Grammar & Word Usagepronouns
common/proper nouns
singular/plural nouns
possessive nouns
verb forms
double negatives
adjectives
correct article/determiner
adverbs
parts of speech
comparative/superlative
subject/predicate
subject-verb agreement
identifying sentences
sentence types
sentence combinations


Reading Comprehensionanalogies
categorization
cause and effect
fact or opinion
fact or fiction/fantasy
fiction or nonfiction
figurative language
inference


Reference Skillsalphabetical order
dictionary skills
reference materials