CANADIAN DAILY LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES GRADE 7 IBD

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32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities!áAn activity for every day of the week, Monday to Friday! áNO PREPáactivities 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. The daily skill review and assessments are time and life savers, especially right after the bell rings! TheáBonus Activities are fun tasks of word and vocabulary puzzles, figurative language, and reading exercises. Activities 1 - 4 focus on:- punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling- language and reading comprehension skillsActivity 5 focus on:- a single language or reading skillBonus Activity:áprovides opportunities for extended activitiesword puzzles, vocabulary developmentspellingreading skillsincludes a short, interesting fact about CanadaStudent 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- spelling- syllabication- synonyms/antonyms/homonyms- contractionsCapitalization- beginning of sentences- proper names/titles of people- names of places- titles of books, songs, poems- names of days, months, holidays- abbreviationsPunctuation- punctuation at the end of a sentence- commas in a series- commas in dates and addresses- commas in a compound and complex sentences- commas after an introductory phrase/clause- commas in direct address/parenthetical expressions- commas after appositives and between adjectives- periods in abbreviations/initials- punctuation & capitalization in simple dialogue- use of colons & semicolons- quotation marks in speech- quotation marks: poems, songs, stories- apostrophes in contractions and possessives- punctuation in a friendly letter & business letters- run-on sentences- underlining: books, plays, poems, magazinesGrammar & Word Usage- pronouns: subject/object, possessive- pronoun antecedent- singular/plural nouns- possessive nouns- verb tenses, types and parts- active & passive voice- double negatives- types of adjectives and adverbs- the correct form of adjective and adverbs- correct article/determiner/adjective/adverb- comparative/superlative forms- subject/predicate- subject-verb agreement- phrases & clauses- sentence parts and types- sentence structure and fragments and combinationsReading Comprehension- analogies- figurative language- inference, idioms, proverbsReference Skills- dictionary/thesaurus skills- outlines and summaries