Canadian Grade 3 Daily Language Activities (Canadian Daily Langauge) - Softcover

Summers, Eleanor M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771587326 ISBN 13: 9781771587327

Publisher: On the Mark Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 Skills

• word meaning from context
• root words/prefixes/suffixes
• vowel sounds
• spelling
• syllabication
• synonyms/antonyms/homonyms
• contractions
• rhyming

Capitalization

• beginning of sentences
• proper names/titles of people
• names of places
• titles of books, songs, poems
• names of days, months, holidays
• abbreviations

Punctuation

• punctuation 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 Usage

• pronouns
• 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 Comprehension

• analogies
• categorization
• cause and effect
• fact or opinion
• fact or fiction/fantasy
• fiction or nonfiction
• figurative language
• inference

Reference Skills

• alphabetical order
• dictionary skills
• reference materials

Edition details

• Publisher: On the Mark Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771587326
• ISBN 13: 9781771587327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122