Use It! Don't Lose It! Language Arts

Daily Language practice equals student success!

Do you worry that your students will lose the skills they have mastered as they move on to a new topic? This Daily Practice series helps your students use their skills, so they won t lose them. There are five problems a day, every day, for 36 weeks. The engaging practice activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence so that students practice skills at regular intervals. Each week s problems are based on a grade-level appropriate topic, so every time a skill shows up, it has a new context requiring students to dig into their memories, recall what they know, and apply it to a new situation. Correlated to state and national standards, this five book series provides daily language practice for grades 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. An easy-to-use chart showing which skills are covered each week and an answer key are included in each book.

The Weekly Plan - Five Problems a Day for 36 Weeks

Monday-Thursday

• One Vocabulary or other word skills item
• One spelling or mechanics item (capitalization, punctuation)
• One grammar or language usage item

Monday and Wednesday

• One reading item
• One literature item

Tuesday and Thursday

• One writing item
• One research/information skills item

Friday

• One longer reading comprehension passage with questions
• One writing task