Students in all grades will be taking the ELA Final on June 11th. I will be preparing the test for 3rd and 4th grades only.
FOURTH GRADE
Review the following:
*ALL uses of capital letters (Speller p. 249)
*ALL uses of commas (Speller p. 251) including use with quotation marks (Speller p. 248)
*ALL uses of apostrophes (Speller p. 250) in possessives and contractions
*abbreviations (Speller pp. 247-248)
*synonyms: Review all more descriptive synonyms for verbs and adjectives on Other Ways to Say sheet
*parts of speech (noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction) Practice Grammar Gorillas on www.funbrain.com
*prefixes and suffixes: Review sheet in ELA notebook . Know meaning of each and how to use to form real words
*distinguish: its/it's , your/you're , there/their/they're, two/to/too
*practice using transition words in a composition. See sheet on transition words in ELA notebbok
and paractice on http://writingfix.com/PDFs/Pic_Book_Prompt_Worksheets/Meanwhile_GO.pdf
You may also wish to practice using Grammar Blast on www.eduplace.com/kids/hme
and Power Proofreading on www.harcourtschool.com
THIRD GRADE
Review the following:
*ALL uses of capital letters (Speller p. 248)
*ALL uses of commas (Speller p. 249)
*ALL uses of apostrophes (Speller p. 249) in possessives and contractions
*parts of speech (noun, adjectice, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction) Practice Grammar Gorillas on www.funbrain.com
*homophones (eg. meet/meat , through/threw , plane/plain)
*homographs (eg. live, dove, wind)
*distinguish: its/ it's, your/you're , there/their/they're
*meaning of idioms listed on sheet in ELA folder
*practice comparing and contrasting by describing similarities and differeces in a composition
You may also wish to practice on Grammar Blast on www.eduplace.com/kids/hme
and Power Proofreading on www.harcourtschool.com
