Download or read book Essential English - Grade 5 written by Carol Cobb and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milliken's Essential English series for grades 1-8 is designed to enable students to use the English language in both written and oral communications effectively and with ease and confidence. Grade 5 includes 55 pages with a variety of activities to help the student gain skills in recognizing and avoiding sentence fragments and run-on sentences, using subjects and predicates, proofreading, using synonyms and antonyms, diamante poetry, grammar review, pronoun usage, writing similes and metaphors personification and hyperbole, test taking and more. Answer keys are included.