Canadian Daily Language Activities Grade 2

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 spellinglanguage and reading comprehension skillsActivity 5 focus on:

a single language or reading skillBonus Activity: provides opportunities for extended activities

word puzzles, vocabulary developmentspellingreading skillsincludes a short, interesting fact about CanadaStudent 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 ScoreAt 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 Skills

word meaning from contextroot wordsvowel sounds/consonant soundsspellingsyllabicationsynonyms/antonyms/homonymscontractionsrhymingcompound wordsword familiesCapitalization

beginning of sentencesproper names/titles of peoplenames of placestitles of books, songs, poemsnames of days, months, holidaysabbreviationsPunctuation

punctuation at the end of a sentencecommas in a seriescommas in dates and addressesperiods in abbreviationsquotation marks in speechapostrophes in contractionsapostrophes in possessivespunctuation in a friendly letterrun-on sentencesGrammar and Word Usage Parts of Speech:

nouns, pronounscommon/proper nounssingular/plural nounspossessive nounsadjectivesverb formsadverbsdouble negativescorrect article/determinersubject-verb agreementidentifying sentences: sentence vs not a sentencesentence typesReading Comprehension

analogiescategorizationcause and effectfact or opinionreal or make-believefigurative languagesequencingReference Skills

alphabetical orderdictionary skills