Easy Grammar

Easy Grammar was a curriculum that I happened upon because I was looking for something that was pure and simply, easy to use! My girls were using the Shurley Grammar curriculum in private school. While Shurley Grammar is quite comprehensive and complete in covering all that is necessary for a child to be able to become proficient in grammar, it was a little over kill for me. The amount of time that I was having to invest in order to prepare for the girl’s daily lesson was more than I felt necessary for a grammar curriculum.  If my daughters displayed a self-motivated, eager interest in language arts, as though they might one day want to become English teachers, I would most likely have stuck with Shurley Grammar. Since this wasn’t the case, I decided to look for a curriculum that would teach what was necessary and be simple to execute on a daily basis.

Easy Grammar has been the right fit for our family. The curriculum comes with a Teacher’s Guidebook and a Student Workbook. The Teacher’s Guidebook includes every page that is in the Student workbook. If you decide not to buy the workbook, you could xerox the daily worksheets for your child. The curriculum additionally includes Daily Grams that allow you to administer additional practice for your student, but we haven’t found a need in doing the Daily Grams.

What I like most about the Easy Grammar curriculum is the grammatical mechanism that is used to teach grammar. The curriculum starts your child out memorizing a list of prepositions. Once they memorize prepositions, they are taught through the identification of prepositions in sentences, how to identify the subject (nouns), verbs, adverbs, prepositional phrases, etc. in sentences. All the necessary, key aspects of grammar are included in the Easy Grammar curriculum. Students learn these aspects of grammar as the complete their daily worksheets and tests. There are also varying games throughout the curriculum that the teaching parent can administer to further enforce varying aspects of grammar to make it fun.

I literally breathed a sigh of relief once Easy Grammar was incorporated into our curriculum. There is minimal preparation required and my kids have quickly embraced the techniques taught through Easy Grammar. It was an easy choice for us!

Pros:

·         Simple and easy to use
·         The instructions for each lesson lend themselves to being easily understood for the more mature, independent learner.
·         There are Daily Gram workbooks available for additional practice.

Cons: