"Easy Grammar texts use the prepositional approach combined with effective strategies. This helps students to understand grammar, a tool for speaking and writing properly." The courses are for grades 2 – 12, and involve student texts, workbooks, a teacher’s guide and a mastery review intended to be used at the beginning of each days’ instruction. Course materials are very affordable. There is no multimedia component with the instruction. Student work pages are reproducible, making it cost-effective to use with several students. Easy Writing and Daily Grams are also offered.
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Grades Used: 6th, & 8th
I used easy grammar plus for my 6th grader and 8th grader during the same year. I worked well with the grade gap and made my homeschool load much lighter. I used a smart phone app called a pdf scanner to scan the worksheet pages from my teacher book and then sent them to print 2 copies on my printer. Much easier than trying to hold a book on a copier.
Cons: None for me
Grades Used: 4th, 5th, & 6th
I came across Easy Grammar while searching for a grammar based curriculum to use with my son who was struggling in grammar in 6th grade (This was in 1998). I used the big purple book with him; I believe it was for 5th grade. The one concept that helped was that it taught prepositional phrases first. This made it easier for my son to find the subject of a sentence. I also liked the way the book introduced capitalization rules a few at a time so it wasn't too overwhelming for him to remember them all.
I used this curriculum with each of my other 4 children as well. I only had the teacher's edition and covered the answer side of the book. This worked well for us as each day these lessons did not take much time. Once they worked through this book, I moved them to Daily Grams.
Cons: none
Grades Used: 2nd, 4th, and 5th grade
Wanda Phillips does an absolute amazing job at making Grammar not only enjoyable, but not so overly time consuming that it could detract from the possible interest in English and Grammar that students might experience with other grammar books. My daughter and two eldest sons enjoyed the Easy Grammar books as well as the Daily Grams she sells on her site. Thanks SO much Wanda for producing such user friendly teaching materials that even us mom's can easily use with our children! These books have helped my children tremendously!
Cons: haven't found one so far
Grades Used: 3rd / 6th
My son was an unfortunate causality of the public school systems cracks. He was a 6th grader barely reading at a 4th grade level with writing skills below 1st grade. I needed a program to help close this gap.
The Easy Grammar Grade 3 has been, so far, a major blessing! We paired this program with a basic writing (starts with punctuation) book. My son's reading at a 5th grade level and his writing has improved to a 2nd grade level in 4 months!!
This is really easy to use. The teacher's book has the page that the student sees in the workbook (on the left) with the identical page on the right including the answers. If I don't understand what the book is asking for I can look on the right and see exactly what they are looking for and explain it.
The Daily Grams workbook covers multiple subjects in the same format for daily use and takes about 5 - 10 minutes to complete! Everyday it covers capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, and sentence combining. It is very repetitive but repition equals memorization and learning! BONUS it only takes a few minutes for kids to do!!
Cons: none
Grades Used: 7, 8
My daughter really liked easy grammar for 7th and 8th grade. It didn't take her long to finish each page - not a lot of writing but mainly circling the correct answer.
Cons: none
Grades Used: 2nd through 5th so far...
We have loved using Easy Grammar. The kids like how short the lessons are and I like that it covers Grammar very well! As a side note, a teacher from our local public school looked at our book and said it is ahead of where they are teaching.
Grades Used: 2-4
We tired 3 other Language Arts curriculum before we found Easy Grammar. My son now actually likes doing the Easy Grammar lessons each day. The lessons build on each other and are so easy to teach. The name says it all.
Grades Used: 3-12
Getting the prepositional phrases out of the way helped my children to find the other parts of speech.