Easy Grammar: Grades 4 and 5

by Wanda C. Phillips

Book Overview

Contains both the student and teacher pages. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936981156
• ISBN13: 9780936981154
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: I S H a Enterprises, Incorporated
• Length: 521 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 5

Customer Reviews

Did not come as expected

I ordered this book to use with a student of mine. I received it this week and I just now have a chance to look it over. It is missing the first 84 pages of the text! And a lot of the pages are written in with a student's work. The description was not listed as having pages missing or that there were many pages written in. If this was the case, I would have opted to buy the copy that had ALL the pages and minimal writing in the text, if any. I am very disappointed that I received this book. This is something I bought out of my own pocket to help my students...makes me very hesitant to buy used texts again, even though it means I'd spend more on the books and buy fewer to help my students. This text is no help to my or my students.

It really is EASY!

I taught 4th grade in a Christian school for 10 years. After trying several grammar programs (including ABeka and Bob Jones), I finally settled on Easy Grammar. It became my all-time favorite, and I plan to use it with my own children as we homeschool now. Ms. Phillips's approach is brilliant! Instead of teaching the child to weed through all the words in a sentence to find the subject and predicate, etc., she begins by getting rid of all words that are NOT the subject or predicate. How does she do this? By teaching the prepositions first! It works like this: 1) Teach the child a list of prepositions. We made a game out of it, using a stopwatch to see who could say the list the fastest. 2) Teach the child how to identify the object of the preposition (the first noun following the preposition). 3) Using a ruler, have the child cross off the prepositional phrase. Most "extra" words are eliminated right off the bat this way. 4) Then, after eliminating any other describing words, the subject and predicate are quite easy to identify! For example, in the sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown dog," the phrase "over the lazy brown dog" would be crossed off first. Then, you could either have the child eliminate "the quick brown", leaving "fox jumped," OR it would be easy to ask "WHO did WHAT?" to find the subject and predicate. They were then taught to underline the subject once and the verb twice, using their rulers. Other parts of speech in the sentence were marked in different ways as well. More is included in the scope and sequence (such as verb forms), but the real beauty of the program lies in the above. I also liked that the lessons were not too long. It was also helpful to use the Daily Grams to warm up, or on days when we didn't have time to do a full grammar lesson. The only real "down side" is that it's strictly black-and-white printing. I used that to my advantage though. It was helpful to have my students use their highlighters to highlight important information. Finally, for comparison purposes, I found ABeka Language to be far too difficult, and Bob Jones to be not quite challenging enough. So, as you can see, I love Easy Grammar! I wish I had been taught grammar with this method as a child. I am not exaggerating when I when I say that I would have breezed through my college grammar class if I had had this background!

Absolutely love Easy Grammar!!!

This is the best grammar I have seen out there. I'm so happy with this method. Short, concise lessons that my 9 year old son can get done quickly and yet still learn the grammar skills he needs. I'll be sticking with Easy Grammar for the rest of my homeschooling years. This is my fifth year homeschooling and I have four children, they are all going to do (2 of them are already) Easy Grammar. I highly recommend this. It is recommended by Tapestry of Grace and I concur. Terrific if you are using classical, (well trained mind), charlotte mason, or traditional schooling in your homeschool. I bought the workbook for my son but you really don't have to. You can photocopy the blackline masters of the daily lessons in the book and save your nickel if you like.

Easy Grammar is Easy!!!

I began using this curriculum not long after the beginning of this school year for my daughter who is homeschooled. The program we were using wasn't working, and she was doing terrible in grammar. I switched to Easy Grammar and at the end of the school year she is extremely improved in grammar, and I'm amazed. I never thought she would be doing this well. I'm so glad I bought this book. I can't wait to see how she does on the state tests. THANKS WANDA!!!