Canadian Daily Language Activities Grade 2

<p><strong>32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! </strong>There is an activity for every day of the week.... Yep... Monday to Friday! These <em>NO PREP </em>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!</p><p>The <em>Bonus Activities </em>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!</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)>Activities 1 - 4 focus on:</strong></p><ul><li>punctuation capitalization grammar and spelling</li><li>language and reading comprehension skills</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)>Activity 5 focus on:</strong></p><ul><li>a single language or reading skill</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)>Bonus Activity:</strong><span style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)> </span>provides opportunities for extended activities</p><ul><li>word puzzles vocabulary development</li><li>spelling</li><li>reading skills</li><li>includes a short interesting fact about Canada</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)>Student Progress Chart</strong></p><p>Students may require a modelled example or individual assistance to complete their Progress Chart.</p><ul><li>Students record their daily scores for each Language Activity.</li><li>At the end of the week they calculate their Total Score</li><li>At the end of four weeks students evaluate their performance.</li></ul><p>120 pages with an answer key.</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)>This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Vocabulary and Word Skills</em></strong></p><ul><li>word meaning from context</li><li>root words</li><li>vowel sounds/consonant sounds</li><li>spelling</li><li>syllabication</li><li>synonyms/antonyms/homonyms</li><li>contractions</li><li>rhyming</li><li>compound words</li><li>word families</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Capitalization</em></strong></p><ul><li>beginning of sentences</li><li>proper names/titles of people</li><li>names of places</li><li>titles of books songs poems</li><li>names of days months holidays</li><li>abbreviations</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Punctuation</em></strong></p><ul><li>punctuation at the end of a sentence</li><li>commas in a series</li><li>commas in dates and addresses</li><li>periods in abbreviations</li><li>quotation marks in speech</li><li>apostrophes in contractions</li><li>apostrophes in possessives</li><li>punctuation in a friendly letter</li><li>run-on sentences</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Grammar and Word Usage Parts of Speech:</em></strong></p><ul><li>nouns pronouns</li><li>common/proper nouns</li><li>singular/plural nouns</li><li>possessive nouns</li><li>adjectives</li><li>verb forms</li><li>adverbs</li><li>double negatives</li><li>correct article/determiner</li><li>subject-verb agreement</li><li>identifying sentences: sentence vs not a sentence</li><li>sentence types</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Reading Comprehension</em></strong></p><ul><li>analogies</li><li>categorization</li><li>cause and effect</li><li>fact or opinion</li><li>real or make-believe</li><li>figurative language</li><li>sequencing</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Reference Skills</em></strong></p><ul><li>alphabetical order</li><li>dictionary skills</li></ul><p><br></p>