Overcoming Difficulty in Language Arts: Kindergarten

By Dorothy M. Johnson-Nelson

Overcoming Difficulty in Language Arts is designed to help students build impressive, resourceful, and accurate language skills. The lessons in the textbook provide various opportunities for kindergartners to practice what they are learning. As a result, kindergartners’ language and writing skills will be enhanced, allowing them to improve their grammar and also have a better understanding of language arts. Most importantly, their test scores will be increased on standard tests.

In addition to teaching grammar, Overcoming Difficulty in Language Arts will empower kindergartners to compose richer and comprehensible paragraphs. Some students may consider writing to be difficult, but with help, they, too, can become proficient writers.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me” (Philippians 4:13, KJV).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796025729

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Rev. date: 05/14/2019

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P R E F A C E

My purpose in writing OVERCOMING DIFFICULTY IN LANGUAGE ARTS is to help kindergarten students build impressive, resourceful, and accurate language skills.

I offer my sincere appreciation to:

Dr. Andrea M. Nelson-Royes, educational researcher and writer, on the tedious and time intensive task of coordinating the editing of this book.

In addition, my grateful thanks to:

Teachers, parents, and guardians,

Bethlehem Pre-School, Inc.

and

Bethlehem Junior Academy, Inc.

THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT!

INTRODUCTION

OVERCOMING DIFFICULTY

IN

LANGUAGE ARTS

Many students think that it is difficult to learn LANGUAGE ARTS, but they do not realize it is easy to master grammar rules. This book will give you the skills, strategies, tips, and models you need to become proficient in understanding grammar rules.

STUDENT’S PROFILE

Fill in the following blanks:

FIRST NAME: _____________________

MIDDLE NAME: _____________________

LAST NAME:_____________________

DATE OF BIRTH: _____________________

FEMALE: __________________MALE:__________________

HEIGHT: __________________WEIGHT:__________________

MOTHER’S NAME: _____________________

FATHER’S NAME: _____________________

HOME TELEPHONE NO.:_____________________

MOTHER’S CELL NO.:_____________________

FATHER’S CELL NO.:_____________________

ADDRESS: _____________________

Street

                   City                   State                   Zip Code

COUNTY: _____________________

NAME OF SCHOOL: _____________________

SIGNATURE:_____________________

Answer each question using special name of a person or a place.

Remember to use CAPITAL LETTERS.

What is your name? _____________________

What is the name of your school? _____________________

What is the name of your city? _____________________

What is the name of your county? _____________________

What is the name of your state? _____________________

What is the name of your president? _____________________

What is the name of your teacher?_____________________

What is the name of your church? _____________________

What is the name of your pastor?_____________________

What is the name of one of your friends?_____________________

HANDWRITING: Hold the pencil correctly. Make your letters with even circles, curves, and straight lines. Space the letters in your words evenly. Space your words evenly on the line. Make your writing neat and easy to read. Practice writing quickly as well as neatly.

Look at your handwriting.           Are the letters beautiful?

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ALPHABET

VOWEL

CONSONANT

CONSONANT BLEND

CONSONANT DIGRAPH

KINDS OF SENTENCES

SENTENCE FRAGMENT

RUN-ON SENTENCE

DECLARATION SENTENCE

INTERROGATION SENTENCE

EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE

IMPERATIVE SENTENCE

COMBINING SENTENCES

CHAPTER 2

PARTS OF SPEECH

NOUN

COMMON NOUN

PROPER NOUN

POSSESSIVE NOUNS

SINGULAR NOUNS AND PLURAL NOUNS

PRONOUNS

PRONOUN I

VERB

ACTION VERB

LINKING VERBS

MAIN VERBS AND HELPING VERBS

TENSES OF VERBS

MAKING SUBJECTS AND VERBS AGREE

IRREGULAR VERBS

CHAPTER 3

ADJECTIVES

ADJECTIVES THAT COMPARE

GOOD AND WELL

PREPOSITIONS

CONJUNCTIONS

INTERJECTIONS

CHAPTER 4

SIGHT WORD

ABBREVIATIONS

TITLES AND NAMES

INTERNET DOMAIN EXTENSIONS

TIMES

DAYS AND MONTHS

ADDRESSES

CONTRACTIONS

CHAPTER 5

COMPOUND WORD

SYLLABLES

ANTONYMS

SYNONYMS

HOMOPHONES

HOMOGRAPHS

ALPHABETICAL ORDER

ROOT WORDS

PREFIXES

OPPOSITES

RHYMING WORD

CHAPTER 6

TIME ORDER

THE PARTS OF A STORY

POEMS

BIOGRAPHY

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 7

WRITING LETTERS

KINDS OF LETTERS

SAMPLES OF LETTERS

BUSINESS LETTERS

ADDRESSING ENVELOPES

SAMPLE OF AN ENVELOPE

PRACTICE

INVITATION

INFORMAL INVITATION

JOURNAL

CHAPTER 8

MESSAGE

MESSAGE SAMPLE

PUNCTUATION

PERIODS

APOSTROPHES

COLONS

COMMAS

CHAPTER 9

CAPITAL LETTERS

REVIEWING PUNCTUATION

PROBLEM WORDS

WRITING NUMBERS

CHAPTER 10

RESOURSES

LIBRARY

PARTS OF A BOOK

NOTE-TAKING AND SUMMARIZING

PERIODICALS

DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

ENCYCLOPEDIA

MAP

ATLAS

GRAPH

INTERNET

COMPUTER

TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

CHAPTER 11

FOR REFERENCE

CALENDAR DAYS

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

PEOPLE

CHAPTER 12

SIMILES

OCCUPATIONS

SCIENCE VOCABULARY

PROVERBS

COLLOQUIALISM

READING COMPREHENSION

CHAPTER 13

GOD CREATED THE WORLD

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

JESUS IS BORN

THE TWELVE DISCIPLES

CHAPTER 14

SEQUENCE

MAIN IDEA

THE LIBERTY BELL

OUR FLAG

STATUE OF LIBERTY

UNCLE SAM

CAUSE AND EFFECT

PREDICTING OUTCOMES

TIPS FOR TAKING TESTS

ANSWER KEY

CHAPTER 1

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Language is the expression of thought; hence, a study of English will enable us to fully understand the thoughts of the best writers of our language.

Underline the blends in the beginning of each word.

black                   clock

glove                   slide

Write the correct consonant blend or digraphs. Complete the word in each sentence.

A ba________ is a place to put money.

Sa__________ is often found at a beach.

If you sco____________someone, you discipline or correct her.

Twelve mon_________s are in a year.

BLENDS

Read the list of words and write the word from the list that makes sense in each sentence.

Patty walks to the_________________in the park

Patty’s hair______________is beautiful.

Her dog runs_______________________her.

The dog likes to_____________________water on itself.

When Patty calls the dog runs_____________________to her

Patty_____________________as her dog jumps up.

She throws a_____________________into the air.

That dog likes to___________________catch.

KINDS OF SENTENCES

SENTENCE: A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

Different kinds of sentences have different purposes. A sentence can make a statement, ask a question, gives