Canadian Daily Language Activities Grade 4

<p><strong>32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities!  </strong>An activity for every day of the week - Monday to Friday! <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. The daily skill review and assessments are time savers and life savers especially right after the bell rings! The <em>Bonus Activities </em>that follow each week of skills are fun tasks of word and vocabulary puzzles figurative language and reading exercises. </p><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)><em> Activities 1-4 focus on:</em></strong></p><p>• punctuation capitalization grammar and spelling</p><p>• language and reading comprehension skills</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)>Activity 5 focus on:</strong></p><p>• a single language or reading skill</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)>Bonus Activity:</strong> 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><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><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 & Word Skills</em></strong></p><ul><li>word meaning from context</li><li>root words/prefixes/suffixes</li><li>vowel sounds</li><li>spelling</li><li>syllabication</li><li>synonyms/antonyms/homonyms</li><li>contractions</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>commas in compound sentences</li><li>commas in simple dialogue</li><li>commas after an introductory phrase</li><li>commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions</li><li>commas after appositives</li><li>periods in abbreviations</li><li>use of colons</li><li>quotation marks in speech</li><li>quotation marks: poems songs stories</li><li>apostrophes in contractions and possessives</li><li>interjections</li><li>punctuation in a friendly letter</li><li>run-on sentences</li><li>underlining: books plays poems magazines</li></ul><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Grammar & Word Usage</em></strong></p><ul><li>pronouns</li><li>common/proper nouns</li><li>singular/plural nouns</li><li>possessive nouns</li><li>verb forms and tenses</li><li>double negatives</li><li>adjectives</li><li>correct article/determiner/adjective</li><li>adverbs</li><li>parts of speech</li><li>comparative/superlative</li><li>subject/predicate</li><li>subject-verb agreement</li><li>identifying sentences sentence types sentence combinations</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 and fact or fantasy</li><li>fiction or nonfiction</li><li>figurative language</li><li>inference</li><li>simile/metaphor</li><li>idioms proverbs</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><li>reference materials</li><li>media sources</li></ul>