Welcome to the 10 Days of Language Arts series. Today we start it off with grammar plus a dab of usage and mechanics as well. What is Grammar? Grammar is the rules of a language. You may think that your child is terrible at grammar, but he probably is quite skilled at it. After all, he […]
Editing Practice for Seventh Grade
I’ve shared before my love of using proofreading and editing to teach grammar, mechanics, and writing. In the past we’ve used Evan Moor’s Daily Paragraph Editing, but that series only goes up to 6th grade. For Sprite’s 7th grade, I’ve switched over to The Critical Thinking Company’s Editor in Chief workbooks. These workbooks have three […]
Book Review: Grammar Books from Reader’s Digest
In exchange for my honest review, Reader’s Digest books gave me two free grammar books, pictured above. These are wonderful, hardback books that I am pleased to add to our reference library. At the end of this post is information about how you can win your own copies. So be sure to enter and spread […]
Minibooks for Reference
In our grammar study, I wanted Sprite to make a handy reference for the parts of speech. So to make it more interesting than a mere list, I gave her a multi-colored layered book. As we studied, she filled in the information and labeled the tabs. And there it is — a colorful and useful […]
Grammar Game — Homemade
Some of you, like me, probably downloaded many of the free Mother’s Day gifts from CurrClick. I really liked the Silly Snail grammar game, but it only covered a few parts of speech. I suggested that Sprite make her own board game about the parts of speech. And here it is! The game involves answering […]