Grammar for 5th grade boy

[GaHadley]

We are working through IEW grammar, but he has a hard time remembering all of the things to mark, but he really struggles to get those daily sentences copied in his notebook to rewrite the story.  It just gets so mixed up and discombobulated that neither of us can figure out where he went wrong. . . 

I love the idea of IEW being short and to the point, but it doesn't seem to be great for us.

What grammar curriculum do you love? 

[alisha]

We have enjoyed Winston Grammar in a little writing way. I wrote the sentences on the whiteboard, he marked it with the cards, then the marks. It's a very hands on approach which my boys loved. It doesn't teach much in the way of punctuation, though.

Other than that, everything we've tried was only ok for us, not recommendable. 

[PoisonHemlock]

We used Hake last year for 5th and I thought it was very thorough. My son learned quite a bit and seems to have retained most of the important parts. That was our first major, formal grammar and I was really pleased with it. 

[Mrs Twain]

I used Rod and Staff English with all of my kids. It is not fun, but it has very clear, systematic instruction. I only assigned about half of the grammar exercises since that amount was sufficient to learn the concepts. 

[SilverMoon]

Maybe a run through First Language Lessons level 4 would help this year? He can't go do it by himself as most of the actual teaching is in the instructor guide, but it doesn't take more than 15-20 minutes or so.