Language Fundamentals, Grade 3

Language Fundamentals, Grade 3 will give your 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.