High-Interest Language Arts Skills & Strategies <show description>
Here’s a great English-language arts program that is equally appropriate for younger students working at grade level and older students who have “forgotten” or never mastered the basics. The friendly look and tone of this series belies the comprehensive sweep of the instructional sequence. Every topic—from capitalization and punctuation to transitive/intransitive verbs—is developed “from the ground up.” Includes answer key.
HIGHLIGHTS
• 130+ reproducible illustrated exercises per book
• Correlated to states’ current language arts standards
• Short writing assignments provide immediate practice
• Variety of activities allows for instructional flexibility
SAMPLE TOPICS
LEVEL 3: Using capitals, end marks, parts of a sentence, common nouns, prefixes and suffixes, subjects and predicates
LEVEL 4: Friendly letters, using commas, compound subjects, subject/verb agreement, homophones and homographs, avoiding sentence fragments
LEVEL 5: Combining sentences, colons and apostrophes, subjects in imperative sentences, object pronouns, word roots, narrative paragraph
LEVEL 6: Business letters, commas after phrases and clauses, compound subjects, possessive pronouns, denotation and connotation, proofreading
LEVEL 7: Semicolons, acronyms, plural possessive nouns, active and passive voice, simile and metaphor, complex sentences
LEVEL 8: Direct and indirect quotations, indefinite pronouns, direct and indirect objects, gerund phrases, personification, creative writing
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