Grammar Works for Better Writing

Give students a practical, working knowledge of grammar that builds literacy and develops confident and competent writers.

This series provides direct instruction of grammar skills reinforced by your students’ own writing.

Each lesson follows a five-step learning process (Learn It, Find It, Try It, Fix It and Review It.) A student glossary in each workbook features an alphabetized list of grammar rules, definitions, charts, rules and definitions from earlier levels. A variety of writing exercises reinforce understanding of grammatical concepts.

Student Edition features:

• Effective, student-friendly, and engaging practice of grammar with a wide variety of exercises.
  
• Writing activities in every lesson put skills to use and reinforce understanding.
  
• The lessons are structured to provide review and reinforcement.
  
• A cross-curricular approach weaves science, math, geography, and history in the lessons.
  
• Pretests and posttests assess knowledge – perfect practice for state or standardized tests.
  
• Perfect for take-home activities, after-school programs, and summer school.

Teacher’s Edition features:

• Helpful wrap-around design
  
• Complete Table of Contents for the level showing the subject matter of each lesson
  
• Annotated reductions of all student pages
  
• Reproducible pretests and posttests for each unit
  
• Sidebars with Teacher Tips and ESL suggestions for the lesson
  
• Bonus oral activities
  
• Copy of the Student Handbook

BOOK C (Grade 3): Provides an understanding of the different kinds of sentences, capitalization rules, nouns, articles, adjectives, pronouns, and the concept of the subject of a sentence.

BOOK D (Grade 4): Introduces the predicate and allows students to build on what they have already learned. New information on parts of speech, sentence structure, and mechanics is added as it specifically applies to the subject and predicate of a sentence.

BOOK E (Grade 5): Teaches that a sentence can have more than one subject and predicate. Students work with compound subjects and predicates, how to join compounds using conjunctions, and how to liven up sentences by using interjections, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs within compounds.

BOOK F (Grade 6: Focuses on compounds and predicates. Students learn about direct and indirect objects, predicate nouns and predicate adjectives, prepositions and prepositional phrases, punctuation and capitalization of book and movie titles, and perfect tenses, all designed to prepare them for writing complex sentences.

BOOK G (Grade 7: Introduces clauses, phrases, voice, and mood. Punctuating complex sentences with the varying components taught here and in earlier levels helps produce good writing.

BOOK H (Grade 8: Explains person and how to use it appropriately when writing. Additional information about phrases and mood helps students better express their thoughts in writing.