Canadian Grade 5 Daily Language Activities

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! Activities 1 - 4 focus on:punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spellinglanguage and reading comprehension skillsActivity 5 focus on:a single language or reading skillBonus Activity:  provides opportunities for extended activitiesword puzzles, vocabulary developmentspellingreading skillsincludes a short, interesting fact about CanadaStudent Progress ChartStudents record their daily scores for each Language Activity.At the end of the week, they calculate their Total ScoreAt 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 contextroot words/prefixes/suffixesvowel soundsspellingsyllabicationsynonyms/antonyms/homonymscontractionsCapitalizationbeginning of sentencesproper names/titles of peoplenames of placestitles of books, songs, poemsnames of days, months, holidaysabbreviationsPunctuationpunctuation at the end of a sentencecommas in a seriescommas in dates and addressescommas in compound sentencescommas in simple dialoguecommas after an introductory phrase/clausecommas in direct address/parenthetical expressionscommas after appositivescommas between adjectivesperiods in abbreviations/initialsuse of colonsquotation marks in speechquotation marks: poems, songs, storiesapostrophes in contractions and in possessivesinterjectionspunctuation in a friendly letterrun-on sentencesunderlining: books, plays, poems, magazinesGrammar & Word Usagesubject and object pronounscommon/proper nounssingular/plural nounspossessive nounsverb forms and tensesdouble negativesadjectivesadverbscorrect article/determiner/adjective/adverbparts of speechcomparative/superlativesubject/predicatesubject-verb agreementprepositional phrasessentence typessentence combinationsReading Comprehensionanalogiescategorizationcause and effectfact or opinionfact or fantasyfiction or nonfictionfigurative languageinferencesimile/metaphoridioms, proverbsReference Skillsalphabetical orderdictionary skillsreference materialsmedia sources