Daily Language Review Name: Monday Daily Language Review • Grade Keep language skills sharp with focused practice presented in standardized testing formats Daily Language Review provides items for every day of a 36-week school year Skills covered include: • Sentence editing • Punctuation • Grammar • Vocabulary • Word study skills • Reference skills For the teacher: • suggestions for use • reproducible answer forms • scope and sequence charts • answer key Added benefit of Daily Language Review The items are presented in a variety of standardized testing formats such as those used in the SAT-9, OLSAT, and TAAS tests DailyaLanguage Review After year of becoming familiar with testing formats, students can face standardized testing Name: with increased confidence and reduced frustration Tuesday About the Author: Jill Norris holds an M.A in reading from the University of Northern Colorado Her teaching career has spanned grades PreK-8 and has included gifted programs She has taught in Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, and California and has been a presenter at numerous state and regional educational conferences Currently she is the building technology supervisor at Christa McAuliffe Elementary School in Greeley, Colorado Congratulations on your purchase of some of the finest teaching materials in the world For information about other Evan-Moor products, call 1-800-777-4362 or FAX 1-800-777-4332 http://www.evan-moor.com Author: Jill Norris Editor: Marilyn Evans Desktop: Michelle Tapola Illustrator: Jo Larsen ©1998 Evan-Moor Corp Entire contents copyright ©1998 by EVAN-MOOR CORP 18 Lower Ragsdale Drive, Monterey, CA 93940-5746 Permission is hereby granted to the individual purchaser to reproduce student materials in this book for noncommercial individual or classroom use only Permission is not granted for school-wide, or system-wide, reproduction of materials Printed in U.S.A 113 EMC 579 Daily Language Review Grade EMC 579 Introduction to Daily Language Review Why Daily Language Review? The premise behind Daily Language Review is simple and straightforward—frequent, focused practice of a skill leads to mastery and retention of that skill What’s in Daily Language Review? The book is divided into 36 weekly sections There are four practice items for each day of the week Monday through Thursday follow this format: • sentences to edit—corrections need to be made in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar • items that practice a variety of language and reading skills Friday’s practice involves a single job practicing a variety of skills, among them: • categorizing objects • reading for comprehension • predicting outcomes • sequencing • unscrambling sentences • combining sentences • distinguishing between real and make believe • alphabetical order • writing and answering questions An answer key for each week is provided on the same page as the Friday lesson Scope and sequence charts on pages and detail the specific skills practiced and show in which weeks the practice occurs The skills chosen have been selected from a variety of language texts at this level ©1998 Evan-Moor Corp Daily Language Review Grade EMC 579 How to Use Daily Language Review There are several ways that the daily review practices can be presented You may want to use all these presentations at times throughout the year to keep the practice fresh and interesting Make overhead transparencies of the lessons Conduct the practice as an oral activity with the entire class Write answers and make corrections using an erasable pen Increased retention of the skills will occur if students mark the answers at the same time on a reproduced sheet or on the blank answer form provided on the inside back cover As the class becomes more familiar with Daily Language Review, you may want students to mark their own answers first and then check responses by marking the items on the transparency Reproduce the pages for individuals or partners to work independently Check answers as a group, using an overhead transparency to model the correct answers Use these pages as independent practice only after much oral group experience with the lessons Occasionally you may want to use the lesson from one day or even a week as a test to see how individuals are progressing in their acquisition of skills It should be stressed, however, that the greatest learning benefit will be gained from doing the practices orally so that students continually hear correct responses modeled by their classmates and the teacher Hints, Suggestions, and Options Look ahead several weeks at the skills being practiced If possible, teach new skills in formal lessons before asking students to practice these skills in the daily review Sometimes you will not have taught a given skill before it appears in a lesson These items should then be done together, not independently Tell the class that there is a skill they have not yet been taught See if anyone knows the answer and wishes to explain it to the class If not, use the review time to conduct a mini-lesson on that skill Customize the daily review lessons to the needs of your class • If there are skills that are not included in the grade level expectancies of the particular program you teach, you may choose to skip those items—white them out or correct them before reproducing the page • If you feel your class needs more practice than is provided, add these “extras” on your own in the form of a one-item warm up, a mini-post test, or ask students to provide another example ©1998 Evan-Moor Corp Daily Language Review Grade EMC 579 Skills Scope & Sequence Reading Comprehension Answering Questions Categorizing Inferring Predicting Real/Make-believe Sequencing Daily Language Review Grade EMC 579 ©1998 Evan-Moor Corp Vocabulary & Word Study Abbreviations Comparatives Compounds Contractions Homophones Opposites Plurals Rhyming Spelling Word Families Punctuation & Grammar Capitals Commas Identifying Sentences Possessives Pronouns End Punctuation Verb Tenses Subject/Verb Agreement Reference Alphabetical Order Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 30 Week 31 Week 32 Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36 Sentence Editing Skills Capitalization Sentence Beginning I Days, Months, Holidays Books, Magazines Proper Names & Titles of People Names of Places Punctuation Apostrophe in Contractions Apostrophe in Possessives Commas in Series Periods in Abbreviations Punctuation at End of Sentence Daily Language Review Grade EMC 579 ©1998 Evan-Moor Corp Grammar & Usage Comparative/Superlative Adjectives Double Negatives Homophone Usage Pronoun Usage Subject/Verb Agreement Word Order Verb Usage Spelling Spelling Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 30 Week 31 Week 32 Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36 Daily Language Review Name: Monday Find the sentence Circle it The dog is barking Fuzzy the cat Which word is spelled correctly? bok book buk bouk Make two words in the -an family an an Write your first and last name Daily Language Review Name: Tuesday Finish the sentences The squeaks The purrs mouse The barks cat dog Fix the sentence i ride the bus ©1998 Evan-Moor Corp Daily Language Review Grade EMC 579 ... Week Week Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 30 Week 31 Week 32 Week... Week Week Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 30 Week 31 Week 32 Week... from a variety of language texts at this level ? ?19 98 Evan-Moor Corp Daily Language Review Grade EMC 579 How to Use Daily Language Review There are several ways that the daily review practices