Canadian Daily Language Activities Grade 6

32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! An activity for every day of the week... 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. 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/clause commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions commas after appositives commas between adjectives periods in abbreviations/initials use of colons quotation marks in speech quotation marks: poems, songs, stories apostrophes in contractions apostrophes in possessives interjections punctuation in a friendly letter run-on sentences underlining: books, plays, poems, magazines Grammar & Word Usagepronouns: subject/object, possessive common/proper nouns singular/plural nouns possessive nouns verb forms verb tenses double negatives types of adjectives and adverbs the correct form of adjective and adverbs correct article/determiner/adjective/adverb parts of speech comparative/superlative subject/predicate subject-verb agreement prepositional phrases sentence types sentence combinations Reading Comprehensionanalogies categorization cause and effect fact or opinion fact or fantasy fiction or nonfiction figurative language inference simile/metaphor idioms, proverbs Reference Skillsalphabetical order dictionary skills reference materials media sources