Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing HELP® for Middle School-E-Book

Ages: 10-14
Grades: 5-9

These activities use middle school content and tone to target classroom language skills in vocabulary, grammar, questions, and following directions.

Written in the best-selling format of the HELP series, these lessons have:

• goal-driven activities
• high quality, timeless content
• appeal to a broad age-range
• gradual increase in complexity within and between activities
• application to a wide range of developmental and acquired disorders

Vocabulary, Grammar, Question Comprehension, and Following Directionsùare skill areas those students with language disorders typically struggle with, especially in the classroom setting. A fifth skill area, Using Basic Language Skills, gives students the opportunity to practice a variety of skills in a broader, more curriculum-oriented text.

• Vocabulary - Define and describe nouns; antonyms and synonym; adjectives and adverbs; multiple-meaning words; context clues; and curricular vocabulary
• Grammar - Regular and irregular plurals; common, proper, and possessive nouns; pronouns; noun-verb agreement; regular and irregular past tense verbs; future tense verbs; adjectives and adverbs; prepositions; and conjunctions
• Question Comprehension - Wh-, how, is/are, can/could, do/does, and if question forms; some/all and always/sometimes/never statements; personal opinion questions; and literal and rhetorical questions
• Following Directions - Multistep and sequential directions, written directions, graphs and charts, and true/false statements
• Using Basic Language Skills - Synonyms, formulating sentences, completing and expanding paragraphs, and answering and formulating questions from factual paragraphs

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• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Pages
• References
• About the Author

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