Book Description | Motivate your students to practice reading and language skills!Help your grade 5 students practice and reinforce reading and language skills using the delightful, highly motivating centers in Take It to Your Seat Reading and Language Centers, Grade 5.12 full-color centers cover the following standards-correlated skills:1. Idioms,Recognize idioms as phrases that mean something different from what the individual words seem to mean.2. Synonyms / Antonyms,Distinguish between synonyms as words that have almost the same meaning and antonyms as words with opposite meanings.3. Homophones,Identify homophones as words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings.4. Homographs,Identify homographs as words that sound the same and are spelled the same, but have different meanings.5. Prefixes,Identify prefixes as word parts added to the beginning of words, which changes the meanings of those words.6. Suffixes,Identify suffixes as word parts added to the end of words, which changes the meanings and part of speech.7. Greek and Latin Roots,Identify word roots that form the base of words and can give clues to the words' meaning.8. Parts of Speech,Identify poper nouns, past tense verbs, descriptive adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and prepositions.9. Analogies,Identify the relationship between objects in an analogy.10. Fact or Opinion,Distinguish whether text is based on fact or opinion.11. Word Meaning from Context,Use contect clues when reading to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in text.12. Main Idea,Identify the main idea of a paragraph and choose the best title.
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