WOW! We just got Winston Grammer in the mail today and have already tried it! It is so easy! You get a set of colored cards, each color a different particle of speech.  The student arranges the cards (one per word) to identify each word of a sentence you have written on the board (or piece of paper). To correct his own work, he turns the cards over. Each card has it's own rules on the back! Then you follow that exercise with a sentence diagramming worksheet. These are very easy because you start out with only two colored cards and blank ones for ones you haven't learned yet. So you only have to find the nouns and the articles in the first two lessons. Ryan loved doing this lesson! It is SO painless that I can't even argue about why or if it should be taught. This is just plain fun!

We even came up with a way that all three kids can do the same workbook without having to make copies! We carefully tore all the pages out of the workbook and placed them in page protectors. They can use dry-erase markers (in pretty bright colors) to diagram the sentences. They use the colored cards (rules are on the back) to self-correct their work. All you do is dialog with them asking them "why or why not..."  (they learn by correcting) Then just wipe them clean!

Mrs. Winston must have made a fortune with this wise and creative way of teaching!  I got the basic and the advanced sets together from eBay (used) for $35.00!