Canadian Daily Language Activities Grade 3

32 Weeks - A Whole Year of Language Activities! There is an activity for every day of the week. Monday to Friday! NO PREP activities provide short and quick opportunities for students to review and reinforce skills in punctuation, grammar, spelling, language, and reading comprehension. 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 spelling
• language and reading comprehension skills 

Activity 5 focus on:

• a single language or reading skill

 Bonus Activity: provides opportunities for extended activities

•  word puzzles, vocabulary development
• spelling
• reading skills
• includes a short, interesting fact about Canada

Student 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 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
• vowel sounds
• spelling
• syllabication
• synonyms/antonyms/homonyms
• contractions
• rhyming

Capitalization

• beginning of sentences
• proper names/titles of people
• names of places
• titles of books, songs, poems
• names of days, months, holidays
• abbreviations

Punctuation

• punctuation at the end of a sentence
• commas in a series
• commas in dates and addresses
• commas in simple dialogue
• periods in abbreviations
• use of the colon in time
• quotation marks in speech
• quotation marks: poems, songs, stories
• apostrophes in contractions
• apostrophes in possessives
• punctuation in a friendly letter
• run-on sentences
• underlining: books, plays, poems, magazines
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