The Easy Grammar curriculum lessons provide excellent teaching resources for classroom and homeschool.
This text contains 180 teaching lessons, one lesson per school day, and is set up in the same format as Daily Grams. Lessons present an easy approach to learning about capitalization, punctuation, dictionary usage, sentence combining, and grammar concepts and usage. Concepts are introduced, explained, and reintroduced throughout the text.
Each of the 180 lessons is about one page in length. The lessons are designed to be worked with the students. Because so many explanations are included, this process will make understanding of the materials more complete.
The material covers 2nd and 3rd grade grammar lessons in two parts, with each part consisting of 90 lessons. Part 1 covers 90 2nd grade lessons while Part 2 covers 90 3rd grade lessons. If you choose to use only Part I (Days 1-90), second grade level, it is suggested that you do a lesson every other day. The same holds true if you decide to use Part II (Days 91-180), third grade level, solely.
How to Use Easy Grammar for 2nd & 3rd Grades
1. Students should be "trained" to do "GRAMS" at the beginning of an English lesson. "GRAMS" may be duplicated for each student, written on the chalkboard, or placed on an overhead projector.
2. Students will finish at different rates. These ideas are suggested:
A. Allow students to discuss answers with other students. This is a form of cooperative learning.
B. Require students to have a reading book at all times. Students simply read when finished.
C. Allow students "Three Minute Conversations" when they have completed DAILY GRAMS. Students will select a partner and discuss anything (within limits of school suitability). The requirement is that all thoughts are expressed in complete sentences. Those who work faster will have more time for this activity while others may have only a minute or two. The purpose, however, is that everyone is ready to check "GRAMS" at the same time.
3. You may wish to allow students to write sentence combinings on the board. This offers a time to involve the entire class in editing, revising, and encouraging.
4. Go over the answers orally with the entire class. Make this a discussion time, a teaching time, and a review time. In making students accountable for this type of activity, you may wish to take a grade occasionally.
FORMAT
You will note that each page is set up in this manner:
1. Sentence one will always contain capitalization errors. Encourage students to write any words that should be capitalized.
2. In sentence two of each exercise, students will insert needed punctuation. It is suggested that students write out this sentence, adding proper punctuation.
3. Sentences three and four will be general review. You may want to replace one of these items with material you are currently teaching.
4. Sentence five is always sentence combining. Using the sentences given, students will write one, more intricate sentence. This helps the student move to higher levels of writing. If you feel that the sentences given are too difficult for your level. simply delete parts. You may wish to compose your own. You have been given at least one possible answer. Needless to say, there are more. |
