Publisher's Synopsis
Fifth-grade students will master standards-based language and vocabulary skills through engaging hands-on center activities. Each of the 11 centers focuses on one skill aligned in a format that is accessible and motivating for all types of learners. These portable language centers help teachers to: support kinesthetic and visual learners provide differentiated practice of language and vocabulary skills offer a quality center activity review or reinforce skills informally assess a student's understanding of concepts The 11 centers cover the following Conventions of Standard English and Vocabulary Acquisition and Use skills: Identifying conjunctions and explaining their functions in sentences Identifying prepositions and explaining their functions in sentences Identifying interjections and explaining their functions in sentences Using the perfect verb tenses (past, present, and future) to complete sentences Using verb tense to express time, sequence, state, and condition Using correlative conjunctions in sentences Explaining why sentences are punctuated correctly or incorrectly and using punctuation to separate items in a series Using context as a clue to the meaning of a word Identifying Greek and Latin roots and their meanings in words, and using words with Greek and Latin roots in sentences Identifying Greek and Latin affixes and their meanings in words Identifying similes and metaphors, and interpret them in context Each easy-to-assemble center provides a hands-on activity with a written practice activity, as well as: correlations and targeted skill full-color center mats and task cards an overview with lesson objectives a student direction page that explains the center activity a center checklist to record each student's progress Better Together! Use centers to enhance the daily practice in Daily Language Review. Center activities complement the skills presented in Daily Language Review to help teachers reinforce and review key language skills in a fun format. This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.
