I got this really great book the other day at Costco. It’s called Painless Grammar by Rebecca Elliott and published by Barron‘s. It retails for $8.99 but I paid $5.59 at Costco.

The cover says: “An enjoyable, completely painless examination of parts of speech, sentence construction, punctuation.” The Introduction says, in part, “As I edited the students’ papers, I began to wonder, is it possible to teach kids to love to write - and to love to write correctly - without boring them to death? I believe it is, and that’s the other reason I wrote Painless Grammar.”

Just today I had a question on when to use then or than. I turned to the chapter Wacky Words We Love to Misuse and found my answer.

There is a chapter called Editing-The Top Goofs in Students’ Writing and another one on Writing E-mails.

At the end of each chapter there are Brain Ticklers where they give sentences that have mistakes and you correct them.

It says it's for middle school and high school students.  I was quite impressed with how simple it was to understand the different concepts and I thought the price was excellent. This books looks like it will be a handy tool for our family.