MellowYellow Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 I am looking for books like Life of Fred that teach things like grammar, spelling, etc. Does anyone know if this exists? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Grammar Land is a very Fred-like treatment of Grammar. I got mine as a kindle download, here is the amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Grammar-land-M-L-Nesbitt/dp/1246295431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329606695&sr=8-1 I've just started using Michael Clay Thompson's language arts. Sentence Island is a grammar/writing book in which a fish called Mud learns all about sentences from creatures he meets on an island. It reminds me a lot of Fred, and is another big hit with my Fred-loving girl http://www.rfwp.com/pages/michael-clay-thompson/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MellowYellow Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 Thanks, these look great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 I'll second Michael Clay Thompson's language arts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oraetstudia Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 If you can lay your hands on it, this out of print book, The Secret History of Grammar, is a fun read. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0943718066/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1329617922&sr=8-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas_mom Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 I've just started using Michael Clay Thompson's language arts. Sentence Island is a grammar/writing book in which a fish called Mud learns all about sentences from creatures he meets on an island. It reminds me a lot of Fred, and is another big hit with my Fred-loving girl http://www.rfwp.com/pages/michael-clay-thompson/ Boy, this is awesome but the price!! Are you just using the Teacher's manual to teach or did you buy the whole thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoo_keeper Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Boy, this is awesome but the price!! Are you just using the Teacher's manual to teach or did you buy the whole thing? We're also Fred and MCT fans at our house! We do both in the evening as storytime, the girls like them so much they're definitely not considered schoolwork (even PI!). To cut down on costs, we only buy the MCT TMs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Grammar Land is a very Fred-like treatment of Grammar. I got mine as a kindle download, here is the amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Grammar-land-M-L-Nesbitt/dp/1246295431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329606695&sr=8-1 I've just started using Michael Clay Thompson's language arts. Sentence Island is a grammar/writing book in which a fish called Mud learns all about sentences from creatures he meets on an island. It reminds me a lot of Fred, and is another big hit with my Fred-loving girl http://www.rfwp.com/pages/michael-clay-thompson/ :iagree: The Ruth Heller collection is wonderful also. I purchased the set but they are always found at the library. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 :iagree:The Ruth Heller collection is wonderful also. I purchased the set but they are always found at the library. :) If someone is going to mention these I'll mention the, "Words Are Categorical" series by Brian P. Cleary http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Words+Are+Categorical&x=0&y=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanks a lot, people. :glare: Now you've got me daydreaming about MCT... Would I need all the components, or could I get away with just the grammar and writing parts? I'm not worried about vocabulary, since we read a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanks a lot, people. :glare: Now you've got me daydreaming about MCT... Would I need all the components, or could I get away with just the grammar and writing parts? I'm not worried about vocabulary, since we read a lot. The poetics book is excellent. You could skip the Island level vocab book, but the Town level Caesar's English is phenomenal. I wouldn't skip it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Another book like Grammar Land is The Sentence Family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 I'm new to MCT, but it seems from what I read here that most people get by just using the TMs. I know for Sentence Island the TM is plenty - it would be silly to have bought the second book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txhomemom Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Here are two others to consider: Giggly Guide to Grammar Caught Ya Grammar With a Giggle series Also you might want to consider Galore Park's Junior English series: Galore Park Junior English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amie Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Not sure if this is quite what you were looking for, but my first thought was Brian P. Cleary's books on language. Many libraries carry them. Just a couple of examples: http://www.amazon.com/How-Much-Can-Bare-Bear/dp/0822567105/ref=pd_sim_b_5 http://www.amazon.com/Dearly-Nearly-Insincerely-Adverb-Categorical/dp/1575059193/ref=pd_sim_b_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas_mom Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 The Ruth Heller collection is wonderful also. I purchased the set but they are always found at the library. :) Thank you! I found it at my library :party: BTW, why does Grammer Land say there are 9 parts of speech and MCT says 8. :confused: I am going to check out the others that were recently mentioned. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas_mom Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 I just checked "The Sentence Family" and it also says 9 parts of speech. It seems the "Grammer Island" and "The Sentence Family" are old books. Was there a change in grammer that MCT, a newer, version of teaching grammer that changed recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MellowYellow Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 These are all so great! They are definitely what I was looking for. Thanks so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 MCT counts articles as adjectives, and Grammar Land has them be their own part of speech. It hasn't been that confusing for my dd, we just looked at how articles act - yep, they come before nouns, and tell you which one, check that out, they are a lot like adjectives! but that's the difference you are seeing. I don't know how other modern grammars teach this - articles were definitely mentioned separately, but in the context of adjectives, in FLL, but I can't recall seeing an official "count" of the parts of speech in FLL . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikkid Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 We did FLL, Sentence Family, and are now doing MCT. MCT treats articles as adjectives (since they tell more about the noun) but since my dd came to love the "article" character in Sentence Family and studied articles in FLL she just labels the articles as "art" instead of "adj" when doing Practice Island thru MCT. It hasn't been a big deal. We loved Sentence Family, but are loving the story of Mud now. Both are good, but both require planning to teach I think so you can answer questions when they come up and so you know how to label sentences. Side note: The author for Sentence Family is a very nice man. I had a question about something in his book hoping he would respond, and he did quite quickly. Seems like a humble teacher wanting to share what worked for him. Not as thorough as FLL or MCT but a very great framework for those kids who need strong mental pictures and hands-on activities to learn grammar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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