Features

• Reading Comprehension: analogies, categorizing, cause and effect, fact and opinion, figures of speech, inference, similes & metaphors
• Vocabulary/word Study: base words, prefixes, suffixes, vowel sounds, contractions, homophones, synonyms/antonyms, word meaning from context, spelling
• Punctuation: punctuation at the end of a sentence, periods in abbreviations, colons in time, underlining magazines, books, plays, run-on sentences, quotation marks in speech, songs, poems, and short stories, commas in dates, in addresses, in a series, to separate dialogue, in parenthetical expression/direct address, in compound sentences, after an introductory phrase, and with, nonrestrictive appositive, apostrophes in contractions and possessives, interjections, punctuation in friendly letters
• Capitalization: sentence beginning, days, months, holidays, books, songs, poems, names of places, proper names and titles of people
• Grammar and Usage: correct article, determiner, adjective, double negatives, pronouns, singular & plural nouns, common & proper nouns, possessive nouns, verb forms, verb tense, subject/predicate, parts of speech, comparative & superlative forms, subject/verb agreement, sentence types, combining sentences, identify a sentence
• Reference Skills: alphabetical order, dictionary guide words, reference materials, syllabication