Teaching english grammar lessons with the Easy Grammar curriculum helps homeschool children develop skills that will last a lifetime.
The 611 page Teacher Edition contains the answer key and teaching strategies needed to teach Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6. The lessons are designed to be reproducible for student use, however we suggest the convenient Easy Grammar Workbook 56 that contains all the corresponding worksheets and instruction sheets found in this text.
About The Prepositional Approach
Let me assure you that Easy Grammar is as the name implies---EASY! Both teachers and parents have shared that, in teaching the easily presented concepts found in Easy Grammar materials, they, too, have learned!
The Easy Grammar method uses a unique approach. Students memorize and learn prepositions first. Why? Most of the time, a prepositional phrase will not be the subject of a sentence. It will never be a verb. Therefore, students are taught to delete prepositional phrases to help determine subject and verb. It's so easy!
Usually, a prepositional phrase will not be a direct object, a predicate nominative, or anything important. The Easy Grammar method simplifies the teaching and learning of the English language.
In using this process, students are actively engaged in learning. They love the "hands on" manner, and the process makes them successful.
This approach is used periodically throughout the text in order for students to understand other concepts such as direct objects, subject/verb agreement, etc.
Another important difference in Easy Grammar is that concepts are introduced and reviewed throughout the school year. In addition, reviews and cumulative reviews are provided along the way to help insure mastery learning.
The Easy Grammar Series also includes units of study in capitalization, punctuation, sentence types, friendly letters, and more.
Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills are also available and recommended. Providing ample daily review of concepts, these are extremely effective in helping to insure mastery. There are 180 reviews per book, and each page contains capitalization review, punctuation review, grammar/dictionary skills, and sentence combining for improved writing skills.
Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6 Program Features
The Easy Grammar Series also includes units of study in capitalization, punctuation, sentence types, friendly letters, and more.
53 prepositions introduced
materials presented and reviewed throughout
contains unit reviews, unit tests, cumulative reviews, and cumulative tests
Scope and Sequence
reproducible worksheets
Easy Grammar Workbook 56 available
TEACHING Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6:
1. THE STUDENT MUST LEARN THE LIST OF PREPOSITIONS. The prepositions must be memorized and listed. You may choose to divide the list into groups. For example, instruct students to learn the list of a's and then the b’s. Next, have them list both a's and b's. Continue through the list until all prepositions have been memorized. It is absolutely imperative that all students memorize the entire list. (You may wish to have students play "preposition bingo" or do some of the included "fun" activities. Using the grid provided, each child will fill in his own preposition page. A sample has been provided.)
2. Be sure that students understand the purpose of deleting prepositional phrases. After a prepositional phrase has been crossed out, it will not be the subject, verb, direct object, predicate nominative, or predicate adjective.
3. In the preposition unit, review pages have been placed before worksheets that require students to use all concepts learned. This has been done as another aid in using the prepositional approach. In all other units, the review is placed directly before the cumulative review or test.
4. With the exception of capitalization, punctuation, sentence types, fragments, and friendly letters, Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6 should be taught in sequence. Those units should be taught when appropriate.
5. Read the answer page before assigning a worksheet. Often, additional suggestions have been placed there for your benefit.
6. Insist on mastery learning. This signifies that the student fully understands the concept and is able to use it when the need arises. The additional cumulative review pages of this book should help determine if the student has mastery. If you discover that there has been a lack of understanding, it is recommended that you reteach that concept.
7. Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills contains ample daily review of concepts. These are extremely effective in helping to insure mastery. There are 180 reviews per book, and each page contains capitalization review, punctuation review, grammar/dictionary skills, and sentence combining for improved writing skills. (See last page for various levels.)
8. This is a lengthy text. If students master a concept with one worksheet, you may wish to skip the second one. (You can always come back to it later for a review.)
9. If you are using a workbook, please note that the correlating workbook page has, in most cases, been placed on the answer key page of Easy Grammar : Grades 5 and 6. Also, a correlation of workbook pages and teacher edition pages has been placed after this text’s index.
10. Tests occur at the end of each grammar unit. However, tests are located in a separate section after the index in the student workbook.
Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREPOSITIONS
Definition 2
Prepositional Phrases 2
List 3
Preposition Game 4
Using Prepositional Phrases as an Aid in
Finding Subject/Verb 11
Helping Verbs 21
Infinitives 21
Compound Object of Preposition 29
Compound Subject 29
Compound Verb 29
Subject of Imperative Sentences 37
Prepositions vs. Adverbs 41
Review 44
Test 60
Direct Objects 62
Compound Direct Objects 68
VERBS
Contractions 71
Helping (Auxiliary) Verbs 78
Verb Phrases 79
Regular Verbs 86
Irregular Verbs 87
Direct Objects 100
Sit/Set, Lie/Lay, Rise/Raise 101
State of Being 114
To Be 114
Linking Verbs 115
Predicate Nominatives 116
Predicate Adjectives 122
Action or Linking Verbs 129
Subject/Verb Agreement 134
Verb Tenses 148
Present 148
Past 148
Future 149
Review 164
Cumulative Review 174
Test 176
INTERJECTIONS
CONJUNCTIONS
NOUNS
Concrete and Abstract 191
Defined 196
Nouns, Adjectives, or Verbs 197
Noun Determiners 202
Common and Proper Nouns 209
Singular and Plural Nouns 216
Possessive Nouns 224
Identification 232
Predicate Nominatives 238
Direct Objects 242
Indirect Objects 244
Review 252
Cumulative Review 258
Test 268
ADJECTIVES
Limiting Adjectives 277
Descriptive Adjectives 285
Proper Adjectives 293
Identification 298
Predicate Adjectives 300
Degrees of Adjectives 306
Review 316
Cumulative Review 322
Test 332
ADVERBS
Defined 343
Adverbs or Adjectives 343
Adverbs that tell HOW 343
Good or Well 354
Adverbs that tell WHERE 363
Adverbs that tell WHEN 371
Adverbs that tell TO WHAT EXTENT 379
Degrees of Adverbs 388
Double Negatives 398
Review 404
Cumulative Review 406
Test 410
SENTENCE TYPES
FRIENDLY LETTER
Envelope 420
SENTENCES, FRAGMENTS, AND RUN-ONS
PRONOUNS
Personal Pronouns 430
Personal Pronouns/Nominative Case 431
Personal Pronouns/Objective Case 439
Personal Pronouns/Possessive Case 456
Reflexive Pronouns 462
Antecedents 463
Demonstrative Pronouns 471
Interrogative Pronouns 475
Indefinite Pronouns 479
Review 486
Cumulative Review 494
Test 507
CAPITALIZATION
First Word, I, Names, and Lines of Poetry 521
Days, Months, Holidays, Special Days, Titles with Names,
and Organizations 527
Business Names, Structures, Institutions, and Geographic
Locations 533
Historical Events and Documents, Languages, Outlines, and
Direct Quotations 539
Brand Names, Religions, Proper Adjectives, Greeting and
Closing of a Letter, and Regions 545
Do Not Capitalize Items 550
Review 556
Test 562
PUNCTUATION
Period 566
Apostrophe 571
Comma 576
Semicolon and Colon 585
Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Hyphen, and
Underlining 588
Quotation Marks 593
Review 598
Test 604
IMPORTANT WORDS
There, Their, or They’re 606
May or Can 606
To, Two, or Too 607
CORRELATION OF TEACHERS’ EDITION WITH WORKBOOK
Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6
A Letter From The Author
Dear Educator,
When Easy Grammar, my non-grade level text, was introduced, it served a multitude of levels. However, I now realize that some of the materials within that text are too difficult for all fifth and sixth grade students. Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6 (formerly Level 1) has been designed with fewer concepts and more practice worksheets for each concept. As in Easy Grammar, the prepositional approach is introduced, and a building block method is used. Introducing concepts step-by-step helps students to comprehend more easily and helps to ensure mastery learning. For this reason, cumulative reviews are interspersed throughout the text. In addition, a test for each unit has been provided.
Easy Grammar: Grades 5 and 6 is reproducible for non-commercial use. However, for your convenience, a student workbook is available. This workbook, Easy Grammar Workbook 56,contains rule pages and all worksheets contained within Easy Grammar:Grades 5 & 6.
Wanda C. Phillips |
