Easy Grammar Plus Revised

Having this book makes teaching grammar easier. It breaks down specific content and helps the students understand sentence structures better compared to Voyages in English.

Easy Grammar Plus is the best grammar book in publication that I have found. (Some decades-old textbooks that are no longer in publication might give this one some competition.) I used this book for years while working as an educational therapist. I just bought it again for some new clients.The book is not scripted, so it is not going to teach the teacher how to explain grammar. For example, the book contains a list of prepositions, but the teacher will have to know how to teach what a preposition is (such as with the rabbit and the bridge) and then the book provides plenty of practice. The author does have short explanations now and again, and because concepts are presented in such small increments, it is very easy to understand without much teaching.Many grammar books begin with subject, verbs, nouns, and adjectives, complete and incomplete sentences. When I have used those books, I noticed that some students got confused as soon as the sentence structure got a little more complicated.Easy Grammar Plus is a structured, sequential approach that begins with prepositional phrases. Students first learn to recognize prepositions. Once they take all of the prepositional phrases out of a sentence, they find it easier to identify the parts of speech of the few words left.The structured, sequential approach allows for extensive practice for each new concept presented as well as consistent review of concepts previously taught. Therefore, students acquire a complete understanding of new material being presented, but are never given the opportunity to forget what was learned before.

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I bought this for my home school teens after another grammar curriculum brought tears. The questions in the first curriculum used quotes from very old writings that it wanted students to learn and practice grammar with. However, NO ONE talks that way! My teens had trouble even understanding what half the sentences meant... Forget about understanding the grammar of those sentences! **** ENTER Easy Grammar Plus! The sentences used as examples and assignments are easy to understand... allowing the grammar to shine through and be learned quickly and easily! My teens grow a bit bored with the repetition, but they are learning and no longer dreading grammar each day!

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If you home educate, this book is a must. Brilliant to teach the prepositions first. Remember! Preposition has the word "position" in it. And, most prepositions describe "anywhere a mouse will go". We made word search from an online puzzlemaker website for the preposition list, to make it fun to learn them. We also recruited my husband to see who could unscramble the preposition handout from the book. My son is in 7th grade and really dreaded grammar. This book turned him around in literally one week. The mental block was gone, and suddenly, everything else fell into place. We also got the Daily Grams by the same author. We have not used them, yet; but it looks great. If you use this for one child, you can write in the book. Answers are included. Very methodical and clear. Yeah for Wanda Phillips. She is a genius.

If you are an English or ESL teacher for anyone from middle school and higher, I would say you absolutely NEED this book in your library. It takes the complex rules of English grammar and breaks them up into small bite-sized pieces easy enough for second-language learners to understand, and gives simple and direct exercises for your class to do every day (along with answers - that's the best part). It's consistent in its formatting, it's easy to photocopy, it's easy to explain, and you don't have to know grammar very well yourself to teach from this book - it explains everything for you ahead of time, you just need to read the instructions :) Each exercise is specific for one grammar point and takes approx. 10 minutes from start to finish. If you go over the answers in class with students together, they will soon learn to pick out different parts of speech very quickly, which will help them in future English classes and in their essay writing.

Easy Grammar Plus is a wonderful resource for grammar learning and reinforcement. This particular book includes all the grammar that is presented in the elementary thru middle school grades. Used extensively by homeschoolers, this program is really just lessons and drills that help the student learn English grammar in a clear and concise manner. No entertainment or color-just learning. The pages for the students are reproducible and the teacher's answers are on the opposite page. There are enough drills to learn the parts of speech and grammar very well.We used the entire Easy Grammar program in our homeschool and both our (now adult) children find it much easier to learn new languages because they both have solid foundations in grammar. I purchased this book again so that I could review my own grammar for college writing and I went from a "C" to an "A-" in just 4 weeks.Improve your reading and writing skills by using this book to learn or review English grammar. You will not be disappointed.