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Easy Grammar Plus Workbook

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I have been teaching in a private school for 20 years. I have been using this workbook since the beginning. It still holds up as the most solid workbook for language arts skills. My original teacher's edition is falling apart, but continues to be my most used workbook. Its approach is simple and straight-forward. It is easy for the students to understand and provides logical sequence of language arts skills. The children enjoy working from this book better than any of the other various publishers I use. I have used these practice pages for fourth graders through high school students. It is what the title says: Easy Grammar.

This book approaches teaching parts of speech and grammar by first introducing the preposition and prepositional phrase. Once the student can identify and eliminate the prepositional phrases in a sentence, determining the subject, verb and other parts of speech is then made much easier. I have found that going through this book with my children has helped improve my understanding of this complex subject.

Are you a language arts teacher? Do you want to be sure that you are teaching grammar, tenses, punctuation properly? Do you ever have questions about parts of speech, clauses? Methodically using this book will ensure that you are teaching the necessary conventions to enrich your students' writing. It is a book every intermediate teacher needs in his/her professional library.

This is a huge workbook! It has a lot of review. After initially covering a part of grammar: preposition, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, the student is then given a lot of practice.

At the beginning of the book Wanda Phillips states that the "student must learn the 50 prepositions... memorized" I absolutely agree. No more guess work with what word is a preposition. There are 53 in this workbook but if you take them one letter at a time they will not be hard to learn, " about, above, across after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, atop." When those are learned you move on to the B's.

Phillips reasoning is that if you can identify prepositions and eliminate all prepositional phrases in a sentence, you will be able to identify subject, verb, direct object etc. a lot easier because you, for example, won't be confusing a beginning prepositional phrase with being the subject of the sentence: "One of the students walks to the front of the class." Crossing out the prepositional phrase, "of the students," you can easily see that "one" is the subject of the sentence.

Mastery is the key to grammar and this book helps you get there.

The only thing missing from this curriculium is a writing course. The book makes learning grammar soooo easy. I used this for all three of my children. Once finished with this book they flew through other curriculiums with much more understanding!

This book is a great tool for teaching grammar to my active boys who hate "dumb bookwork". It sounds like they have bad attitudes, but they are bright, hands-on learners. Grammar has always seemed abstract to them. The lessons are clear, yet concise. The exercises re-enforce the concepts without excessive repetition. For my boys who hate to write, this workbook is easier for them to "swallow" while they learn basic grammar.

I have just recently began using this workbook for two Deaf high school students who were having an impossible time learning to read and write English.Obviously, they can not know that something 'sounds'wrong like people who can hear do, so they are really dependent on learning the rules of the English language and being able to rely on the memorization of those rules. In that regard, this book is a winner! The grammar rules are clearly laid out and are incremental, building upon what was already learned. And I just love being able to cross out the prepositional phrases first! They had always previously "gotten lost in all the words" and would get so frustrated they would just give up. This makes everything so much easier and I am already seeing improvements; including their attitude toward English! This book is also written at such a level that they aren't insulted by kiddie pictures and babyish graphics. It is very professional and I just can't say enough about it. I only wish I had found it sooner!

Wow! What can I say about Easy Grammar Plus...it is awesome! I am a homeschool mom of four and have been teaching for thirteen years. I have always enjoyed grammar in school and when I came across Easy Grammar, I knew that it was going to be beneficial to us. The material is presented in such an easy way and becomes even simpler because you are taught to learn the prepositions first, eliminate them and then label the rest of the words in the sentence. If you are not a grammar buff, I highly recommend this. If you are, I still recommend this. Along with this I came up with a preposition song for my children to learn the prepositions faster. Even my three year old learned his prepositions! This is the only grammar I will ever use. Also, purchasing the Daily Grams Workbook is beneficial. It gives daily lessons, only five things to do for 180 days. The Easy Grammar Level 1 is for your elementary and middle schoolers and Easy Grammar Plus for high school and up. Purchase this and you won't regret it.
Daily Grams : Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills for 5th and 6th Grades, Easy Grammar Plus Workbook, Easy Grammar Level 1 (Workbook 56)

My daughter really enjoyed zipping through this book. I did find that she needed a more text book approach to grammar. This has been a great way to introduce parts of speech.

This book is very easy to use. The author moves through a survey of English Grammar in a logical manner and the text can be used for a variety of grade levels. I have enjoyed learning and tutoring with it and would recommend it to anyone.