Canadian Grade 3 Daily Language Activities

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

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

Vocabulary & Word Skillsword meaning from context

root words/prefixes/suffixes

vowel sounds

spelling

syllabication

synonyms/antonyms/homonyms

contractions

rhyming

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

commas in simple dialogue

periods in abbreviations

use of the colon in time

quotation marks in speech

quotation marks: poems, songs, stories

apostrophes in contractions

apostrophes in possessives

punctuation in a friendly letter

run-on sentences

underlining: books, plays, poems, magazines

Grammar & Word Usagepronouns

common/proper nouns

singular/plural nouns

possessive nouns

verb forms

double negatives

adjectives

correct article/determiner

adverbs

parts of speech

comparative/superlative

subject/predicate

subject-verb agreement

identifying sentences

sentence types

sentence combinations

Reading Comprehensionanalogies

categorization

cause and effect

fact or opinion

fact or fiction/fantasy

fiction or nonfiction

figurative language

inference

Reference Skillsalphabetical order

dictionary skills

reference materials