DAILY LANGUAGE REVIEW GR 8 Vendor: EVAN-MOOR (emc2789)

DAILY LANGUAGE REVIEW GR 8

Vendor: EVAN-MOOR Brand: Evan-moor Category: Reading/Language Arts Product Type: Language Skills Grades: 8 Ages:

Give your eighth-graders the focused language arts practice they need to keep their language skills sharp.

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