When do you stop with grammar?

[Forget-Me-Not]

I have a 6th grader who is a very fluent writer.  She has a firm grasp on punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech.  She went through FLL 4 and then did most of JAG (until neither of us could take it with naming comma splits anymore  :blink:).  She's done a few years of Latin as well.  

I'm thinking of just dropping formal grammar study this year.  It just feels like busy work at this point.  Am I going to regret this at all later? 

[rjand6more]

I would probably stop formal grammar lessons.  I would spend some time looking at common grammar and spelling mistakes.  I taught a "Word Crimes" class at co op and that is where we did that.

 

I assign a page weekly(or every 2 weeks) for my 9th grader to keep her skills sharp.  I bought the reinforcement books from AG.  

 

 

[Forget-Me-Not]

Thanks!  What is AG?  I don't recognize that one.

ETA:  Oh *facepalm* Analytical Grammar. :D

Edited August 23, 2016 by Forget-me-not

[Bluegoat]

If she writes well, I would just trat it as part of her writing.  If it comes to pass that she needs some more basic tools, you can always pop in a small unit to accomplish that.

[Ellie]

I have a 6th grader who is a very fluent writer.  She has a firm grasp on punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech.  She went through FLL 4 and then did most of JAG (until neither of us could take it with naming comma splits anymore  :blink:).  She's done a few years of Latin as well.  

 

I'm thinking of just dropping formal grammar study this year.  It just feels like busy work at this point.  Am I going to regret this at all later? 

 

I don't believe that native speakers of English need to study their own grammar for 10 years. I think a year or two of focused grammar when they are 10-12yo should be sufficient; after that, their grammar should be corrected in context--IOW, when they write...anything, not just official English assignments.

 

We do grammar once when the dc are 11ish.

[Arcadia]

I drop formal grammar for my kids at the end of 3rd. They just continue to proofread their work.

 

My kids standardized tests scores for grammar are high enough in 2015/16 that I don't regret giving my kids a break from formal grammar. If they are sloppy later, I can always add back grammar exercises.

[Goldilocks]

I think it depends on the child. I stopped with my oldest after R&S 6. He really struggled with it and we needed the time for other subjects. I probably should have stopped sooner. My DD finished R&S 7 and we are continuing to study grammar with IEW's Fix It. She is good at it and I can see the knowledge of grammar being beneficial to her in her future plans.

[michaeljenn]

I am considering taking a break from grammar as well.  I thought about just using a handbook to go over usage as the need arises.  She just started CLE and it is so technical.   Or, at least do something like ELTL?  It is so hard to let go though.

[GeoKitty]

That's a great question!  Gee, I don't know.  Both of my kids (6th and 8th grades) have  done MCT Town, Voyage and are now doing Magic Lens 1.  I wonder if we should be done after that, or continue on. Oh my DS also did Growing with Grammar 7.  Part of me thinks it is enough.  The other part thinks we need to keep going.  I don't know.

[Junie]

We stop grammar instruction at the end of 6th grade.

[Momto6inIN]

We stop after 8th grade, except for a few exercises from the AG reinforcement books every month or so to keep skills sharp and make sure they haven't forgotten the grammar terminology for the PSAT, ACT, etc. For what it's worth, the AG reinforcement books are much less tedious than AG itself ;)