Canadian Grade 2 Daily Language Activities

32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! There is an activity for every day of the week.... Yep... Monday to Friday! These NO PREP 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!

The Bonus Activities 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!

Activities 1 - 4 focus on:punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling

language and reading comprehension skills

Activity 5 focus on:a single language or reading skill

Bonus Activity: provides opportunities for extended activitiesword puzzles, vocabulary development

spelling

reading skills

includes a short, interesting fact about Canada

Student Progress Chart

Students may require a modelled example or individual assistance to complete their Progress Chart.Students record their daily scores for each Language Activity.

At the end of the week, they calculate their Total Score

At the end of four weeks, students evaluate their performance.

120 pages with an answer key.

This book provides many opportunities for practice of the following skills:

Vocabulary and Word Skillsword meaning from context

root words

vowel sounds/consonant sounds

spelling

syllabication

synonyms/antonyms/homonyms

contractions

rhyming

compound words

word families

Capitalizationbeginning of sentences

proper names/titles of people

names of places

titles of books, songs, poems

names of days, months, holidays

abbreviations

Punctuationpunctuation at the end of a sentence

commas in a series

commas in dates and addresses

periods in abbreviations

quotation marks in speech

apostrophes in contractions

apostrophes in possessives

punctuation in a friendly letter

run-on sentences

Grammar and Word Usage Parts of Speech:nouns, pronouns

common/proper nouns

singular/plural nouns

possessive nouns

adjectives

verb forms

adverbs

double negatives

correct article/determiner

subject-verb agreement

identifying sentences: sentence vs not a sentence

sentence types

Reading Comprehensionanalogies

categorization

cause and effect

fact or opinion

real or make-believe

figurative language

sequencing

Reference Skillsalphabetical order

dictionary skills