32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! There is an activity for every day of the week…. Yep… Monday to Friday! These NO PREP activities provide short and quick 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 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.

120 pages with an answer key.

This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:

Vocabulary and Word Skills

word meaning from context root words vowel sounds/consonant sounds spelling syllabication synonyms/antonyms/homonyms contractions rhyming compound words word families

Capitalization

beginning of sentences proper names/titles of people names of places titles of books, songs, poems names of days, months, holidays abbreviations

Punctuation

punctuation at the end of a sentence commas in a series commas in dates and addresses periods in abbreviations quotation marks in speech apostrophes in contractions apostrophes in possessives punctuation in a friendly letter run-on sentences

Grammar and Word Usage Parts of Speech:

nouns, pronouns common/proper nouns singular/plural nouns possessive nouns adjectives verb forms adverbs double negatives correct article/determiner subject-verb agreement identifying sentences: sentence vs not a sentence sentence types

Reading Comprehension

analogies categorization cause and effect fact or opinion real or make-believe figurative language sequencing

Reference Skills

alphabetical order dictionary skills