Daily Language Review (Teacher's Edition), Grade:1~8

 Publishing Co. : Evan-Moor

Give your sixth-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
• figurative language
• inference

Vocabulary/Word Study

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

Punctuation

• punctuation at the end of a sentence
• periods in abbreviations and initials
• underlining magazines, books, plays
• run-on sentences
• quotation 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, and with nonrestrictive appositives
• apostrophes in contractions & possessives

Capitalization

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

Grammar and Usage

• correct article, determiner, adjective
• types of adjectives & adverbs
• 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
• double negatives
• combining sentences

Reference Skills

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