Language Fundamentals, Grade 6+ will give your sixth-graders the grade-appropriate practice they need for a broad spectrum of language skills -- grammar, sentences, mechanics, and more. You'll love the test-format review pages and the sentence-editing exercises where students apply the skills to writing. Super companion for Daily Language Review, Grade 6+.
Skills practiced include the following:
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Grammar Skills: common, proper, & possessive nouns; types of pronouns; prepositional phrases; present, past, future, & present progressive tense verbs; subject-verb agreement
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Sentence Skills: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, & imperative sentences; compound sentences; complex sentences; run-on sentences
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Mechanics Skills: capitalization, abbreviations, commas and quotation marks in dialogue, end marks
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Usage: double negatives, subject or object pronouns, frequently confused words
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Vocabulary: base words, prefixes, suffixes, Greek and Latin root words, synonyms, antonyms
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Paragraph Editing: After practicing a skill, use the corresponding pages in this section for application to student writing. Students edit and correct paragraphs with common errors they would make.
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