Language Fundamentals, Grade 4

Language Fundamentals, Grade 3 will give third-graders the grade-appropriate practice they need for a broad spectrum of language skills -- grammar, sentences, mechanics, and more. You'll love the test-format review pages and the sentence-editing exercises where students apply the skills to writing.

Skills practiced include the following:
* Grammar Skills: common, proper, & possessive nouns; comparative and superlative adjectives; subject and object pronouns; subject-verb agreement * Sentence Skills: declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences; combining sentence fragments to form sentences; compound sentences; run-on sentences * Mechanics Skills: capitalization, abbreviations, commas and quotation marks in dialogue, end marks * Usage: double negatives, definite and indefinite articles, frequently confused words * Vocabulary: synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, word meaning from base words and context * Sentence Editing: After practicing a skill, use the corresponding pages in this section for application to student writing. Students edit and correct sentences with common errors.