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burleygirl Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 My main focus is to have her understand the basic parts of speech and how they work in a sentence. Next, I want her to be able to put together coherent sentences. To that end we used Killgallon Sentence Composing for Middle School. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 1. Survival. 2. Remembering capital letters and periods. That's it. I have no hopes for more. After this year, I'm relegating her to spell check even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peacefully Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Ds is just 6, but I still have my hopes of doing a fairly "rigorous" (hate that term but oh well :001_rolleyes:) grammar program. So far, he likes Grammarland and Schoolhouse Rock, and later we'll do the Sentence Family and other narrative approaches to parts of speech. We do a few grade-level grammar worksheets now and then, and he does fine. I will look into MCT when he's older, but I have a feeling I might opt for a more traditional approach to parsing and diagramming. Even so, I'll probably emphasize editing more than analysis. Oh, and since we do a lot of games and pretend, I will probably take the tact of tweaking whatever program I purchase and make lots of games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonaQ Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 My main focus is to have her understand the basic parts of speech and how they work in a sentence. Next, I want her to be able to put together coherent sentences. :iagree:I have found that for ds, an excellent problem solver, an understanding grammar has given him an important understanding of the pieces. These are the important things I have seen: 1- Spelling (is that a verb? add an -ed not a -t, is that an adjective/ adverb-- that would be -ly not le) 2-Assessing whether he has complete sentences (look for subject and predicate) 3- understanding how to vary his sentence structure by moving phrases, or starting a sentence with an adverb. 4- He understands how to make his writing "richer" by adding adjectives and adverbs To that end, I have found the Writing Skills books by Diana Hansbury King to be indispensable. Other than that, I personally am not a super huge fan of grammar as a stand alone study. For ds, I am really looking at a much more practical knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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