This Schoolaid Language Series is designed by Schoolaid to complement the Pathway Reader Series by extending in phonics and reading comprehension, grammar and composition.

Grade 5 contains parallel contents to Grade 6. The lesson instructions and the teaching suggestions will apply to both grades. The exercises for grade 6 will generally be harder and require more work than grade 5. There are 108 lessons, reviews, and unit tests in each grade, divided into twelve units. (Designed for scheduling 3 lessons per week.) For easy reference, a language Handbook and abbreviated Thesaurus are included at the end of each workbook.

A booklet of 70 practice sheets with reinforcement exercises is available for each grade.

The hardcover teacher's manual contains general teaching tips, as well as suggestions and answer keys for each lesson. The answers to the practice sheets are at the back.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• To the Teacher
• Some General Tips on Teaching Language

Unit I

• 1. Introducing the Study of Our Language
• 2. Composition
• 3. Sentences
• 4. Fragments and Run-ons
• 5. Writing Interesting Sentences
• 6. Combining Sentences; Revising
• 7. Proofreading
• 8. Unit I Review
• 9. Unit I Test

Unit II

• 10. Writing Paragraphs
• 11. Capitalization
• 12. Capitalization; Word Usage
• 13. Capitalization; Word Usage
• 14. Dictionary; Guide Words
• 15. Dictionary; Revising
• 16. Proofreading; Word Usage
• 17. Unit II Review
• 18. Unit II Test

Unit III

• 19. Personal Narrative
• 20. Using Commas
• 21. Periods and More Commas
• 22. Colons and Hyphens; Revising
• 23. Underlining; Proofreading
• 24. Summarizing
• 25. Proofreading; Capitalization; Word Division
• 26. Unit III Review
• 27. Unit III Test

Unit IV

• 28. Descriptive Writing I
• 29. Descriptive Writing II
• 30. Direct Quotations
• 31. Quotation Marks in Titles
• 32. Writing Dialogue
• 33. Revising; Contractions
• 34. Proofreading; Titles
• 35. Unit IV Review
• 36. Unit IV Test

Unit V

• 37. Comparisons and Contrasts
• 38. Nouns; Using A and An
• 39. Common and Proper Nouns
• 40. Singular and Plural Nouns
• 41. Possessive Nouns
• 42. Revising; More Possessives
• 43. Possessives; Proofreading
• 44. Unit V Review
• 45. Unit V Test

Unit VI

• 46. Friendly Letters
• 47. Action Verbs; Subjects and Predicates
• 48. Linking Verbs; Verb Phrases
• 49. Principal Parts of Verbs
• 50. Compound Subjects and Predicates
• 51. Simple and Compound Sentences
• 52. Writing Business Letters
• 53. Unit VI Review
• 54. Unit VI Test

Unit VII

• 55. Studying Poetry
• 56. Recognizing Pronouns
• 57. Objective Case Pronouns
• 58. Possessive Case Pronouns
• 59. Subject-Verb Agreement
• 60. Practicing Pronouns
• 61. Diagraming Pronoun Subjects
• 62. Unit VII Review
• 63. Unit VII Test

Unit VIII

• 64. Skimming and Summarizing
• 65. Adjectives
• 66. Proper Adjectives; Diagraming
• 67. Predicate Adjectives; Revising
• 68. Using Adjectives in Comparison
• 69. Comparing Irregular Adjectives
• 70. Using Adjectives Correctly
• 71. Unit VIII Review
• 72. Unit VIII Test

Unit IX

• 73. Writing Book Reports
• 74. Adverbs
• 75. More Adverbs
• 76. More About Modifiers
• 77. Reviewing Modifiers
• 78. Revising; Reviewing Parts of Speech
• 79. Double Negatives; Proofreading
• 80. Unit IX Review
• 81. Unit IX Test

Unit X

• 82. Taking Notes and Writing an Outline
• 83. More on Notes and Outlines
• 84. Prepositions
• 85. Prepositional Phrases Used as Adjectives
• 86. Reports; Prepositional Phrases
• 87. Conjunctions; Using Whose and Who's
• 88. Interjections; Using Prepositions
• 89. Unit X Review
• 90. Unit X Test

Unit XI

• 91. Writing Exposition I
• 92. Writing Exposition II
• 93. Complements; Direct Objects
• 94. Indirect Objects
• 95. More About Objects; Revising
• 96. Linking Verbs; Subjective Complements
• 97. Subjective Complements; Word Usage
• 98. Unit XI Review
• 99. Unit XI Test

Unit XII

• 100. Reviewing Capitalization
• 101. Reviewing Punctuation
• 102. Reviewing Letters
• 103. Reviewing Nouns and Pronouns
• 104. Reviewing Verbs
• 105. Reviewing Adjectives and Adverbs
• 106. Reviewing Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
• 107. Reviewing Sentence Patterns
• 108. End of Term Test

• Practice Pages
• Thesaurus
• Handbook