Building Language Processing Skills

Building Language Processing Skills is a collection of activities that stimulate the development of language and thinking skills as students use language for a variety of purposes. Short stories relevant to situations commonly encountered in school and at home are included. The activities challenge student to make comparisons and solve problems as they use language for a variety of purposes.

Listening and thinking skills relevant to academic curriculum standards are targeted. The lessons build language skills that facilitate learning.

Here is a partial listing of activities in the book:

• Completing sentences using opposites
• Completing analogies
• Using synonyms and antonyms
• Identifying nouns from descriptions
• Defining words in sentences
• Comparing word meanings
• Explaining absurdities
• Using context to complete sentences
• Creating sentences with similar meanings
• Explaining idiomatic expressions
• Solving problems in stories... and more!

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