This comprehensive teaching resource helps third grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction.

 Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 32 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students’ understanding and application of the focus skill. 

Format: The teacher’s edition includes reproducible student pages, teacher support pages, and an answer key. 

Third grade skill practice covers:

• Nouns

• Adjectives

• Pronouns

• Verbs

• Adverbs

• Sentences

• Capitalization

• Abbreviations

• Punctuation

• Usage

• Spelling

• Vocabulary
  

This new edition features:

• Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews

• Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use

• Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference

• Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking

• An easy-to-read answer key

• This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.