Canadian Grade 6 Daily Language Activities

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! An a</span>ctivity for every day of the week... 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.</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Activities 1 - 4 focus on:</span></p><ul><li>punctuation capitalization grammar and spelling</li><li>language and reading comprehension skills</li></ul><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Activity 5 focus on:</span></p><ul><li>a single language or reading skill</li></ul><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bonus Activity:</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><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Student Progress Chart</span></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><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vocabulary & Word Skills</em></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><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Capitalization</em></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><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Punctuation</em></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/clause</li><li>commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions</li><li>commas after appositives</li><li>commas between adjectives</li><li>periods in abbreviations/initials</li><li>use of colons</li><li>quotation marks in speech</li><li>quotation marks: poems songs stories</li><li>apostrophes in contractions</li><li>apostrophes in 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><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grammar & Word Usage</em></p><ul><li>pronouns: subject/object possessive</li><li>common/proper nouns</li><li>singular/plural nouns</li><li>possessive nouns</li><li>verb forms</li><li>verb tenses</li><li>double negatives</li><li>types of adjectives and adverbs</li><li>the correct form of adjective and adverbs</li><li>correct article/determiner/adjective/adverb</li><li>parts of speech</li><li>comparative/superlative</li><li>subject/predicate</li><li>subject-verb agreement</li><li>prepositional phrases</li><li>sentence types</li><li>sentence combinations</li></ul><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Reading Comprehension</em></p><ul><li>analogies</li><li>categorization</li><li>cause and effect</li><li>fact or opinion</li><li>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><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Reference Skills</em></p><ul><li>alphabetical order</li><li>dictionary skills</li><li>reference materials</li><li>media sources</li></ul><p><br></p>