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 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.

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

Vocabulary & Word Skills

word meaning from context root words/prefixes/suffixes vowel sounds 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

Punctuation

punctuation 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 Usage

pronouns 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 Comprehension

analogies categorization cause and effect fact or opinion and fact or fantasy fiction or nonfiction figurative language inference simile/metaphor idioms, proverbs

Reference Skills

alphabetical order dictionary skills reference materials media sources