Canadian Daily Language Activities Grade 6

32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! An activity for every day of the week... 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.



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

Vocabulary & Word Skills

word meaning from contextroot words/prefixes/suffixesvowel soundsspellingsyllabicationsynonyms/antonyms/homonymscontractionsCapitalization

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 addressescommas in compound sentencescommas in simple dialoguecommas after an introductory phrase/clausecommas in direct address/parenthetical expressionscommas after appositivescommas between adjectivesperiods in abbreviations/initialsuse of colonsquotation marks in speechquotation marks: poems, songs, storiesapostrophes in contractionsapostrophes in possessives interjectionspunctuation in a friendly letterrun-on sentencesunderlining: books, plays, poems, magazinesGrammar & Word Usage

pronouns: subject/object, possessivecommon/proper nounssingular/plural nounspossessive nounsverb formsverb tensesdouble negativestypes of adjectives and adverbsthe correct form of adjective and adverbscorrect article/determiner/adjective/adverbparts of speechcomparative/superlativesubject/predicatesubject-verb agreementprepositional phrasessentence typessentence combinationsReading Comprehension

analogiescategorizationcause and effectfact or opinionfact or fantasyfiction or nonfictionfigurative languageinferencesimile/metaphoridioms, proverbsReference Skills

alphabetical orderdictionary skillsreference materialsmedia sources