This book focuses on families, with stories about a family farm, popular baby names, and readers’ memories of their grandmothers. There is also a comic strip that offers a humorous look at family life.
This e-book is part of a series called Best of the Reader, which consists of stories from The Westcoast Reader, a newspaper for adults trying to improve their English reading skills. Each story is accompanied by exercises to help learners improve both their reading skills and their grasp of English. The material can be used by a learner on his own or by a teacher in a classroom.
Daily Language Practice 5th Grade: Use It! Don't Lose It!
Each book in the Use It! Don't Lose It!: Daily Language Practice series provides review exercises for five days a week for 36 weeks. Five problems a day are provided for Monday through Thursday, with exercises dealing in vocabulary, spelling, mechanics, grammar, literature, research, writing skills, and more. These exercises come in a variety of formats, including identifying parts of sentences, proofreading/editing sentences, sequencing, and multiple choice, short answer, and definition questions.
