Canadian Grade 8 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 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 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><strong style=color: rgba(43 0 255 1)>Activities 1 - 4 focus on:</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><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><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 initials</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</p><p>- commas between adjectives</p><p>- periods in abbreviations/initials</p><p>- punctuation & capitalization in simple dialogue</p><p>- use of colons semicolons dashes parentheses</p><p>- quotation marks: poems songs stories</p><p>- apostrophes in contractions and in possessives</p><p>- interjections</p><p>- punctuation in friendly & 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>- nouns: abstract concrete possessive</p><p>- verb tenses verb types verb parts</p><p>- active & passive voice</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>- a predicate adjective; predicate nouns</p><p>- subject/predicate subject-verb agreement</p><p>- prepositional phrases; prepositions; objects of prepositions</p><p>- conjunctions</p><p>- phrases & clauses</p><p>- sentence parts types structure fragments 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>- combined errors</p><p>- dictionary/thesaurus skills</p><p>- outlines and summaries</p>