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 activitiesword puzzles, vocabulary development
spelling
reading skills
includes a short, interesting fact about Canada


Student Progress ChartStudents 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


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 compound sentences
commas in simple dialogue
commas after an introductory phrase
commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions
commas after appositives
periods in abbreviations
use of colons
quotation marks in speech
quotation marks: poems, songs, stories
apostrophes in contractions and possessives
interjections
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 and tenses
double negatives
adjectives
correct article/determiner/adjective
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 and fact or fantasy
fiction or nonfiction
figurative language
inference
simile/metaphor
idioms, proverbs


Reference Skillsalphabetical order
dictionary skills
reference materials
media sources