Chance - He used Jensen's Grammer in the beginning of the school year but we both did not like the layout of it or the way they wanted the work to be completed. So instead of having him write out the entire page for a lesson, we started doing it orally. He did very well with it, but we still just did not care for it. We've put it up after several lessons and wasn't really able to find another grammar program that sounded like something we'd want to use. So we started reading books that dealt with the various grammar rules. This has been working out very well because Spencer and Lindsey are listening to the books too and are able to tell me examples and are also incorporating them into their writing journals without prompting.
Some of the books are like fun stories that sneak the lessons in, others are similar to puzzlebooks where you have to figure things out yourself. Following are some of the titles:
Punctuation Tales series (quotation marks, abbreviations, sentence structure, sentence stoppers)
Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day
Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp - More about Verbs
We've also used other books, but these are the ones we still have in our supplies, several others have been checked out from the library and are probably written on the other book list I can't seem to locate. We've also used Mad-Libs sometimes, the kids really enjoy the humorous possibilities they can have with them. The grammatical errors they were using in their normal speech has been reduced also. I correct them when I catch it, and I've heard them correcting each other too. |