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Many parents (and teachers) have the impression that a study of grammar will improve a person's ability to write. And so they seek to put their children through the paces of rigorous grammar study.
While there are a few basic grammatical "rules" that every student needs to know (for example, rules about the correct use of commas and periods, or the placement of capital letters at the beginning of sentences), intensive grammar study is actually more valuable in areas other than writing. Its primary benefit comes in the form of language analysis (figuring out, for example, why a sentence fails to communicate accurately) and communication about language — a most valuable asset not only when you're discussing a piece of literature or a paper you're writing, but also when you're trying to learn a foreign language.
Intensive grammar goes beyond identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It gets into such matters as relative and subordinate clauses, predicates and participles, gerunds and infinitives.
So what does Sonlight Curriculum offer in the way of grammar instruction?
NEW! All the grammar your students need, in one self-paced program!
To teach every grammar rule in the English language, you’d need hundreds of lessons (and possibly a psychiatrist.) Thankfully, your children don’t need every rule to succeed. Just the ones in The Grammar Ace...
In building our newest course, Sonlight worked with Avyx (the publisher) to create a progressive journey through only the most practical grammar your children need. No dangling participles here. Just the tools to help young writers master any standardized test, and become better writers.
And it’s all here — a complete grammar education, in one program. Your students set their own pace. Take the 36 lessons and do them in six months, or two years... you decide. The program is designed to serve kids in grades 4-7, and be all the grammar they will need.
You’ll never feel "stranded," trying to explain grammar to your students on your own.
Throughout the entire course, each lesson includes: a definition of the new rule being taught, a scripted teaching segment with examples and ideas, "In a Nutshell" section which distills the lesson to a brief, easy-to-grasp summary, two engaging and student-focused activity sheets, plus answers for everything but the free writing assignments!
Sonlight’s new Grammar Ace is a perfect supplement to the Language Arts programs. And it’s designed to work just as well for new homeschoolers coming from a public school curriculum, too. The program also includes (and uses) the Grammar Rock portion of the delightful Schoolhouse Rock DVD, animated educational songs. These 46 beloved classics helped a generation remember their grammar, math, history, science and other subjects. It’s a great teaching tool, and your kids will love singing along to "Conjunction Junction," "Unpack Your Adjectives," and more!
"Reading, not grammar, produces good writing," says master teacher and curriculum expert, Dr. Ruth Beechick.
"Also, with frequent writing practice in a variety of styles, grammar comes naturally," she writes in her recent review of Sonlight’s new Language Arts programs. The basic rules are important but, according to Beechick, your students seem to learn grammar best "along the way," in context.
With Sonlight’s new Language Arts, your students experience plenty of practical grammar. Unlike other programs that deliver a barrage of exercises covering multiple concepts at once, Sonlight gradually introduces key writing-related grammar "gems," in the context of your children’s reading and writing.
But many parents — and students — still want the more intensive coverage of grammar rules offered in previous editions of our Language Arts. Now, you can add a complete grammar education in one pace-yourself course. Order The Grammar Ace package today!
All the practical grammar your student needs, in one set-your-own-pace program. Packed with examples, answers and other teaching help. For Levels 4-7.…
Recommended for ages: 9-14
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NEW! All the grammar your students need, in one self-paced program! Includes The Grammar Ace set: Instructional Manual (schedule, examples, answers, and teaching helps) and Workbook plus Schoolhouse Rock DVD.…
Recommended for ages: 9-14
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Consumable, Optional. Includes instruction guide, student workbook, and card pack. Scheduled as optional in Language Arts 3+4 and 4.
Necessary if you intend to teach Winston Grammar Basic to a second student at the same time.
Consumable. Winston Grammar Basic second student workbook only.
Winston Grammar Basic second student card pack only.
Optional. Text-workbook with separate pre- and post-test booklet designed to build competency in grammar, usage, mechanics, and composition. Scheduled as optional in Language Arts 5.
Consumable, Optional. Workbook, pre- and post-test only for Keys to Good Language 5 (#5L09). Scheduled as optional in Language Arts 5.
Answer key only for Keys to Good Language 5 (#5L091).
Optional. Workbook and answer key with separate test booklet designed to build competency in grammar, usage, mechanics, and composition using content from across the curriculum: literature, science, health, hobbies, and
Workbook, pre- and post-test only for Keys to Good Language 6.
Answer key only for Keys to Good Language 6 (#6L09).
Includes instruction guide, consumable student workbook, and card pack.
Consumable. Necessary if you intend to teach Winston Grammar Advanced to a second student at the same time.
Consumable. Winston Grammar Basic second student workbook only.
Winston Grammar Basic second student card pack only.
An entire generation reinforced their grammar, science, math, history and more with these Saturday morning animated sing-alongs. Sonlight’s new Grammar Ace program uses some of the best songs in the
We recommend Writer's Inc in our Language Arts from Level 3 up not only to provide additional reinforcement on issues that may require deeper study, but to enable you to pursue additional independent Language Arts study as well.
Beyond these resources, we offer several additional items.
Winston Grammar Basic — scheduled as an optional part of our Language Arts "4" program — uses manipulatives-based teaching methods to cover all the parts of speech, noun functions, prepositional phrases, and principles of modification. It provides an excellent introduction to sentence diagramming.
The publishers recommend this program for use by students in fourth through ninth grades. We know people who have used it as adults. It is also good for students with learning disabilities. The student workbook is consumable and if you intend to use the program with more than one student at a time, we urge you to get the complete second student pack (workbook and cards).
The Winston Grammar Program Advanced takes up where the Core program leaves off. It reviews the basic parts of speech, noun functions, prepositional phrases, and modification. It then introduces possessives, various pronouns, verbals and clauses.
We have scheduled it for use in our Seventh Year program, but it may be used at any point once your child has successfully completed the Winston Grammar Basic program or Sonlight® Language Arts 6 activity sheets.
Keys to Good Language combines a wide variety of activities designed to familiarize students with the mechanics of writing, including proper capitalization, punctuation, word usage, parts of speech, and sentence and paragraph development.
We think our Instructor's Guides provide enough practice in these areas, but if your student needs some additional work, you're hardly going to go wrong here! Consumable.
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