FairProspects Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Older ds (dyslexic, dysgraphic) is doing very well in some aspects of grammar such as parts of speech, punctuation, apostrophes, capitalization, and sentence diagramming. He is even performing reasonably well on homophones and general spelling. However, he doesn't know comma usage, quotations, or indentations & paragraphing at all. Completely not his fault, because I haven't taught him the rules since we have been working on other aspects of LA. I can't quite find the resource I want to address this. It doesn't seem fair to him to use something like Fix-It or Editor-in-Chief and expect him to pick up on errors I haven't taught. But if I look at something like general Scholastic grammar & usage workbooks for grades 4-8 they all focus too much on the concepts he already knows like subject/predicate or run-on vs. fragment. What resource am I looking for to introduce and practice the rules for paragraphing, commas, quotations? Should I have him start editing instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomatHWTK Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I'm using some of the essay apprentice worksheets this year: http://www.novamil.org/sites/novamil.org/files/Simple%20Sentence%20Essay%20Apprentice.pdf I like Purdue's tutorials as well: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Iirc the Take 5 Minutes editing books were more punctuation than usage. Another way to approach it would be to get all the reasons for commas, etc. (use the AG lists if you want), and go through articles, marking them in colors, a different color for each number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 However, he doesn't know comma usage, quotations, or indentations & paragraphing at all. Completely not his fault, because I haven't taught him the rules since we have been working on other aspects of LA. I can't quite find the resource I want to address this. It doesn't seem fair to him to use something like Fix-It or Editor-in-Chief and expect him to pick up on errors I haven't taught. But if I look at something like general Scholastic grammar & usage workbooks for grades 4-8 they all focus too much on the concepts he already knows like subject/predicate or run-on vs. fragment. What resource am I looking for to introduce and practice the rules for paragraphing, commas, quotations? Should I have him start editing instead? Fwiw If you start with Lvl 1 with Fix-It they start with Indentations and quotations and such, the grammar part will be really basic for him, as it is for my son I'm sure but the other is good practice, my son actually was bragging to me the other day that he remembered to indent a paragraph! I added MCT Voyage grammar as I didn't want to forget what we had learned about parts of speech but we're using Fix-It for learning those punctuation rules. It is a snap to use and it also has them practice dictionary usage, although quite frequently my son already knows the meaning of the word his dictionary skills have been quite lacking so I like him to practice and considering his spelling practicing with easy words is good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmasc Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I can only speak for the first three weeks of lessons, but I got Junior Analytical Grammar: Mechanics to use with DS10 this year for the same reason. So far, we've worked on commas. Specifically, comma splits (why we don't use commas in specific places and finding them in the lessons). Then we moved on to where to correctly place commas. We've worked on items in a series and between two adjectives so far. We aren't very far into it yet, but it really seems like it's going to serve its purpose here. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I like real life sites to edit from: https://www.reddit.com/r/grammarfial http://www.cakewrecks.com/ http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ I pull pictures from them for a weekly worksheet in middle school, along with articles from our local online news site. They get pretty bad about staying on topic and having coherent thoughts. :laugh: Being able to tailor it to *just* what my kid needs to work the most on is helpful, and it also lets him see that grammar mistakes happen all the time - knowing how to do it right is pretty cool, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourisenough Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 AG Jr. Mechanics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 Ok, thanks for all the suggestions. It does look like Jr AG Grammar Mechanics is what I want. I knew I could count on the Hive! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourisenough Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Ok, thanks for all the suggestions. It does look like Jr AG Grammar Mechanics is what I want. I knew I could count on the Hive! I taught my DD10 AG Jr. Mechanics followed by one year of Evan-Moor's Daily Paragraph Editing to apply what she had learned, and her writing is now consistently mechanically correct. Now to get her to develop her ideas and learn to really think, that's another story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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