Canadian Grade 7 Daily Language Activities

<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. Each weekly section provides daily skill review and assessment. The daily skill review and assessments are time and life savers especially right after the bell rings! The <em>Bonus Activities</em> are fun tasks of word and vocabulary puzzles figurative language and reading exercises. </p><p><br></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)><em>Activity 5 focus on:</em></strong></p><p>- a single language or reading skill</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)><em>Bonus Activity: </em></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)><em>Student Progress Chart</em></strong></p><p>- Students record their daily scores for each Language Activity.</p><p>- At the end of the week they calculate their Total Score</p><p>- At the end of four weeks students evaluate their performance.</p><p>This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Vocabulary & Word Skills</em></strong></p><p>- word meaning from context</p><p>- root words/prefixes/suffixes</p><p>- spelling</p><p>- syllabication</p><p>- synonyms/antonyms/homonyms</p><p>- contractions</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Capitalization</em></strong></p><p>- beginning of sentences</p><p>- proper names/titles of people</p><p>- names of places</p><p>- titles of books songs poems</p><p>- names of days months holidays</p><p>- abbreviations</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Punctuation</em></strong></p><p>- punctuation at the end of a sentence</p><p>- commas in a series</p><p>- commas in dates and addresses</p><p>- commas in a compound and complex sentences</p><p>- commas after an introductory phrase/clause</p><p>- commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions</p><p>- commas after appositives and between adjectives</p><p>- periods in abbreviations/initials</p><p>- punctuation & capitalization in simple dialogue</p><p>- use of colons & semicolons</p><p>- quotation marks in speech</p><p>- quotation marks: poems songs stories</p><p>- apostrophes in contractions and possessives</p><p>- punctuation in a friendly letter & business letters</p><p>- run-on sentences</p><p>- underlining: books plays poems magazines</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Grammar & Word Usage</em></strong></p><p>- pronouns: subject/object possessive</p><p>- pronoun antecedent</p><p>- singular/plural nouns</p><p>- possessive nouns</p><p>- verb tenses types and parts</p><p>- active & passive voice</p><p>- double negatives</p><p>- types of adjectives and adverbs</p><p>- the correct form of adjective and adverbs</p><p>- correct article/determiner/adjective/adverb</p><p>- comparative/superlative forms</p><p>- subject/predicate</p><p>- subject-verb agreement</p><p>- phrases & clauses</p><p>- sentence parts and types</p><p>- sentence structure and fragments and combinations</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Reading Comprehension</em></strong></p><p>- analogies</p><p>- figurative language</p><p>- inference idioms proverbs</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(255 42 0 1)><em>Reference Skills</em></strong></p><p>- dictionary/thesaurus skills</p><p>- outlines and summaries</p>