Daily Language Review Teacher's Edition, Grade 8
Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher's Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. 128 pages.
36 weeks of practice cover standards-based skills such as:
Vocabulary/Word Study
• affixes
• analogies
• base/root words
• figurative language
• homophones
• idioms
• spelling
Punctuation
• end of sentence
• apostrophes: contractions and possessives
• commas: series, dates, addresses, direct address/interjections, compound sentences, after an introductory phrase/clause, and with nonrestrictive appositives
• punctuation and capitalization: dialogue and friendly business letters
• quotation marks: songs, poems, and short stories
• unnecessary commas
• run-on sentences
• semicolons, dashes, and parentheses
Capitalization
• beginning of a sentence
• books, songs, and poems
• proper nouns
Grammar and Usage
• active/passive voice
• conjunctions
• correct article, adjective, adverb
• comparative/superlative
• predicate adjectives and nouns
• easily confused words
• sentences: parts, types, structure, fragments, and combining
• verbs: parts, tense, usage, and spelling
• nouns: possessive, singular/plural, and concrete/abstract
• pronouns: subject/object, possessive, and antecedents
• prepositional phrases/prepositions/objects of a preposition
• double negatives
Other Skills
• dictionary guide words
• syllabication
• outlines
