32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! An activity for every day of the week, Monday to Friday! NO PREP activities provide 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 activities. 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 activitiesword 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.
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, initials
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
- commas between adjectives
- periods in abbreviations/initials
- punctuation & capitalization in simple dialogue
- use of colons, semicolons, dashes, parentheses
- quotation marks: poems, songs, stories
- apostrophes in contractions and in possessives
- interjections
- punctuation in friendly & business letters
- run-on sentences
- underlining: books, plays, poems, magazines
Grammar & Word Usage
- pronouns: subject/object, possessive
- pronoun antecedent
- singular/plural nouns
- nouns: abstract, concrete, possessive
- verb tenses, verb types, verb parts
- active & passive voice
- types of adjectives and adverbs
- the correct form of adjective and adverbs
- correct article/determiner/adjective/adverb
- comparative/superlative forms
- a predicate adjective, predicate nouns
- subject/predicate, subject-verb agreement
- prepositional phrases, prepositions, objects of prepositions
- conjunctions
- phrases & clauses
- sentence parts, types, structure, fragments, combinations
Reading Comprehension
- analogies
- figurative language
- inference, idioms, proverbs
Reference Skills
- combined errors
- dictionary/thesaurus skills
- outlines and summaries