As Miss Scarlet was doing an exercise in one of her MCT books today, I noticed she was struggling with a prepositional phrase. So I decided to have her work through a chapter in Thinking Through Grammar: 5th and 6th Grade by Dr. Arthur Whimbey. This is the book I'm planning on having her do once she's done with MCT. I had taken a chance on ordering it sight unseen as I wasn't able to find any samples on the web of the middle school level book.
Thinking Through Grammar is a solid, no-nonsense consumable work-text. It is designed to be self-teaching. Because Miss Scarlet is much further ahead cognitively than her physical writing skills, I allowed her to dictate the answers orally while I transcribed. You can see one of the pages she did today here.
Sample page from "Thinking Through Grammar" -
3 comments:
That looks interesting, where did you get it? Prepositional phrases can be confusing.
I bought it directly from the publisher but it's also available on Amazon. ISBN is 0970907567.
Thanks for the info on Story Grammar - I like this concept and will check it out. I've been using Susan Wise Bauer's First Language Lessons Level 3 for my third grader, but the diagramming is perhaps too much? It's an intense amount of diagramming, which I'm absolutely not opposed to, but wondering if there's a better, gentler approach out there?
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