With the implementation of the new ELA TEKS this year, having a daily spiral review in your toolbox that reviews all the TEKS for language, spelling, and writing is a MUST!! DAILY WRITING READY© is a standards-based program that follows a research-based model of continuous, systematic instruction, building from simple to complex to help students learn and retain skills.  In this 3rd grade unit for November, students practice language & writing skills in 10-15 minute daily lessons. Skills taught in this unit include:

• Capitalization (proper nouns, holidays, months, days of the week, titles of people, geographical names & places, beginning of sentence)

• Complete sentences (subject/predicate)

• Compound sentences

• Homophones (hour/our, its/it’s, to/too/two)

• Parts of speech (helping verbs, conjunctions, subject/possessive pronouns)

• Punctuation (apostrophes in possessives & contractions, commas in a series, comma in compound sentence, ending punctuation)

• Spelling

• Diagramming sentences