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 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/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 Usage

• pronouns: 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 Comprehension

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

Reference Skills

• alphabetical order
• dictionary skills
• reference materials
• media sources