Canadian Grade 5 Daily Language Activities

32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! 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!

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 ChartStudents 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

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 compound sentences

commas in simple dialogue

commas after an introductory phrase/clause

commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions

commas after appositives

commas between adjectives

periods in abbreviations/initials

use of colons

quotation marks in speech

quotation marks: poems, songs, stories

apostrophes in contractions and in possessives

interjections

punctuation in a friendly letter

run-on sentences

underlining: books, plays, poems, magazines

Grammar & Word Usagesubject and object pronouns

common/proper nouns

singular/plural nouns

possessive nouns

verb forms and tenses

double negatives

adjectives

adverbs

correct article/determiner/adjective/adverb

parts of speech

comparative/superlative

subject/predicate

subject-verb agreement

prepositional phrases

sentence types

sentence combinations

Reading Comprehensionanalogies

categorization

cause and effect

fact or opinion

fact or fantasy

fiction or nonfiction

figurative language

inference

simile/metaphor

idioms, proverbs

Reference Skillsalphabetical order

dictionary skills

reference materials

media sources