This comprehensive teaching resource helps fifth grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction.
Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 23 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and application of the focus skill.
Fifth grade skill practice covers: Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Sentences, Capitalization, Abbreviations, Punctuation, Usage, and Vocabulary.
This edition features:
• Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews
• Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use
• Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference
• Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking
• An easy-to-read answer key
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.