Primary 3
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Vocabulary Work and Writing
Workshop
Vocabulary Work
Word List: advantage, adventure, delight,
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Sentences
Subjects and predicates
Kinds of sentences
Complex and compound sentences
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Beginning sentences with a clause
Combining sentences
Using descriptive details
Add details to make super sentences
Create word pictures-
fortune, journey, opportunity,
prosperity, bewilder
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Word List: predict, rewind, unhappy,
television, photograph, involve, impolite,
discuss, postpone
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Word List: forbidden, hostile, humble, lame, 6
offensive, practical, severe, shabby
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Word List: abandon, rescue, pout, capture,
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delight, pursue, discontinue,
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Word List: vacate, sorrow, diminish, assure,
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mammoth, unplanned, boastful, baffle
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Word List: admit, arrival, conceal, courage,
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feeble, hinder, plentiful, scatter
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Word List: Sayings and Expressions, Similies
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Word List: Antonyms
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Word List: principle, compliment, marshal,
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border, weather, band, boarder
Writing
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Recognizing main ideas and supporting details
Find the main ideas
Find the supporting details
Write supporting details
Writing topic sentences and details
Putting ideas all together
Writing reports with topic sentences and supporting
details.
Writing to show cause and effect
Introducing and showing causes and effects
Using signal words
Organizing your paragraph
Reviewing cause and effect
Using forms to organize writing
Writing compare/contrast paragraph form
Writing How-to instructions
Writing an introduction
Giving Clear directions
Organizing instructions
Using forms to organize writing
Writing how-to paragraph form
Writing a Persuasive paragraph
Writing a topic sentence
Using persuasive language
Giving Reasons
Writing a conclusion
Using forms to organize writing
Writing persuasive paragraph form
Writing a personal narrative
Choosing a specific topic
Adding sensory details
Adding thoughts and feelings
Using forms to organize writing
Writing narrative paragraph form
Writing a descriptive paragraph
Adding sensory details
Showing, not telling
Expanding sentences
Writing descriptive paragraph form
Primary 4 Vocabulary Work and Writing Workshop
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Vocabulary Work
Word List: apartment, fervor, subscription,
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prescription, gale, fever, compartment
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Word List: liberate, transform, recognize,
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approve, analyse, create, restrict, destroy,
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Word List: delicious, methodical, creative,
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strict, delicate, frivolous, fantastic
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Word List: highlight, downstream,
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praiseworthy, wholehearted, courtyard,
Outnumber, database, overactive
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Word List: complain, knowledge, cautious,
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bashful, encouraged, worsen, inferior,
synonyms
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Word List: prowl, romp, scurry, scuttle,
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Hobble, saunter, gallop
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Word List: roam, wander, traverse, trek,
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explore, traipse, discover, encounter
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Word List: meanwhile, herby, however,
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foremost, therefore, herein, hereafter, forward
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Word List: replenish, replacement,
discouragement, unsatisfying, unpopularity,
demystify, deactivation
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Writing
Writing a Personal Recount
Key points in the prompt
Developing the ideas
Organizing to write
Useful Vocabulary
Writing a Cause-and-Effect Essay
Writing to show cause and effect
Organizing a cause-and-effect essay
Adding details
Writing a persuasive essay
Writing an opinion statement
Including reasons and examples
Writing good leads
Writing conclusions
Writing a story that beginning with…
Key points in the prompt
Developing the ideas
Organizing to write
Useful Vocabulary
Punctuation Review
Writing an Editorial
Stating the issue
Addressing other people’s arguments
Writing a call to action
Writing a new article
Answering the 5Ws and H
Writing good leads,
Organizing a news article
Using precise language
Writing a Persuasive letter
Forming opinion statements
Including reasons and details
Choosing your tone
Writing a personal narrative
Evaluating a topic
Including details about the topic
Writing sensory details
Writing transition sentences
Writing a problem-solution essay
Stating the problem
Choosing the best solution
Supporting the solution