Page Count: 136

EAN: 9781557996596

"After state testing in both 3rd and 5th grades, I asked my students what we did in the classroom that helped them most to prepare. Both classes unanimously voted for Evan-Moor's Daily Language Review."
-Heather G.
Elementary School Teacher

Give your fifth-graders the focused language arts practice they need to develop strong language skills.

36 weeks of instruction cover standards-based skills such as:

Reading Comprehension:

• analogies
• categorizing
• cause and effect
• fact and opinion
• figures of speech
• inferences
• similes & metaphors

Vocabulary/Word Study

• base words, prefixes, and suffixes
• contractions
• homophones
• phonics
• rhyming
• synonyms & antonyms
• word meaning from context
• spelling

Punctuation

• punctuation at the end of a sentence
• periods in abbreviations and initials
• colons in time
• underlining magazines, books, plays
• run-on sentences
• quotations marks in speech, songs, poems, and short stories
• commas in a series, in dates, in addresses, to separate dialogue, in direct address/interjections, in compound sentences, after an introductory phrase/clause, with nonrestrictive appositives, and between coordinate adjectives
• apostrophes in contractions and possessives
• punctuation in letters

Capitalization

• sentence beginning
• days, months, holidays
• books, songs, poems
• names of places
• proper names and titles of people

Grammar and Usage

• correct article, adjective, adverb
• double negatives
• singular & plural nouns
• subject & object pronouns
• possessive nouns
• common & proper nouns
• verb forms
• verb tense
• subject & predicate
• parts of speech
• comparative & superlative forms
• subject/verb agreement
• sentence types
• combining sentences
• prepositional phrases

Reference Skills

• alphabetical order
• dictionary guide words
• reference materials
• syllabication