April 21/2013
I found this web site, through several recommendations. This is a to buy product, aimed at the younger learner. It looks excellent as it is phonics based, has lots of different elements included. The program includes activities, CD with activities, books for the learner, the curriculum and more. This web site also sells a math program and a music program. http://www.brillkids.ca/
Check it out, my only problem, it is a more then I would spend for a program such as this, unless I was planning on homeschooling.
I am back
I was just looking for English worksheets for one of my students, and I tripped upon this - great site, free, various levels of worksheets etc - It has everything from grade 1 up to getting ready for SAT etc. It looks like a really good site.
sentence worksheets
Let us go down memory lane *****
Rebus - remember those stories? Those are the stories that have some of the words replaced with pictures. They are great for beginning readers, or young students that are struggling with words that don't always sound out the way you would think they should. I use the following site for several things, but I love their rebus stories enchantedlearning Try them they are great.
I found these two ideas for helping your students with fixing up their written assignments. This first one was written out on a picture of a arm, while the second one was written out on a picture of a cup.
A - add additional information
R - remove unnecesasry or repeated information
M - move the info around to make it sound smoother
S - substitute different words, so you are not always using the same words
C - capitalize your work
U - watch your usage of words ( ex., their, they're, there)
P - punctuation - check it
S - spelling - double check it
Grammar
Grammar can be a very frustrating subject to teach and to learn. I have found several programs that I really like, but they are all aimed at the classroom - you have to buy the whole set. the following link takes you to a program that is aimed for the home. The program is not aimed at teaching the whole world of grammar, but rather to catch the more common problems. Check it out and see what you think.
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June 3rd
Check this site out Word's part of speech.
It looks interesting. I have not rated it due to the fact I have not finished checking it out.
July 8th,2013
It has taken me quite awhile to develop the following chart of language expectations. We are not talking about reading levels, we are talking about the parts that make up the English language. The idea of this chart is to let you as parent, teacher or student know when children should be introduced to various grammar concepts. These concepts include: capital letters, punctuation, sentence structure and grammar.
The shaped areas show when the concept should be introduced and taught. It is assumed that after that grade the student has acquired the skill. In future blog entries I will expand on what each of these actually involve.
Capitalization
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K
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Upper
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First
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First
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The word ‘I”
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Proper nouns
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Holidays
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Titles
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Days of week
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In dialogue
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Letter salutations/closing
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months
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Abbreviations
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Geographic places
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OK folks, lets start examining what each of these skills involves. Under capitalization the first skill is literally for the student to understand the difference between a lower case and upper case letter. This is introduced in kindergarten and should be completed by the end of grade one. By the end of grade one the students need to not only understand the difference between lower and upper case, but also how to write them.
During this time we are also learning that capital letters are only for special places. The first thing that needs to be learned is that we only put capital letters at the beginning of the word, not in the middle.
This is excellent time to combine several ideas - all one concept though - 'what is a sentence?' Firstly we must help the students understand that a sentence is a thought, about someone or something doing an action. With this in mind, we show the students that we start a sentence with a a capital letter, so that people will know where the thought starts. This idea would also go hand in hand with the period, which lets us know when the sentence, or thought ends.
Once that concept is well grasped you can go on to the next idea - that people are special and therefore need a capital letter. Don't laugh but I once had a grade 7 student who always started their last name with a lower case letter. The students logic was 'I always have done it that way'. We were quick to change that habit. There are two parts to this concept of capitalizing people, they are the pronoun 'I', and proper names. The students needs to be able to do is understand that the pronoun 'I',is always capitalized. By the end of grade 2 students have not only been taught the above ideas, they should have conquered the skills.
Learning about capitalization of proper nouns takes until the end of grade 4. This is due to the great variety of proper nouns and rules that go with capitalization of proper nouns - such as when do you put a capital with mom and when don't you.
During this time we are also learning that capital letters are only for special places. The first thing that needs to be learned is that we only put capital letters at the beginning of the word, not in the middle.
This is excellent time to combine several ideas - all one concept though - 'what is a sentence?' Firstly we must help the students understand that a sentence is a thought, about someone or something doing an action. With this in mind, we show the students that we start a sentence with a a capital letter, so that people will know where the thought starts. This idea would also go hand in hand with the period, which lets us know when the sentence, or thought ends.
Once that concept is well grasped you can go on to the next idea - that people are special and therefore need a capital letter. Don't laugh but I once had a grade 7 student who always started their last name with a lower case letter. The students logic was 'I always have done it that way'. We were quick to change that habit. There are two parts to this concept of capitalizing people, they are the pronoun 'I', and proper names. The students needs to be able to do is understand that the pronoun 'I',is always capitalized. By the end of grade 2 students have not only been taught the above ideas, they should have conquered the skills.
Learning about capitalization of proper nouns takes until the end of grade 4. This is due to the great variety of proper nouns and rules that go with capitalization of proper nouns - such as when do you put a capital with mom and when don't you.
Grammar
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Adjectives
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Nouns
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Verbs
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Modifiers
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Tense
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Adverbs
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Plural words
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Participles
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Compound
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Pronouns
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Propositional
phrases
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prepositional
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Perfect
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conjunctions
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Interjections
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Sentence structure
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Sentence building
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Transition words
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Varied sentence lengths
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Tense
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Dialogue
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Subject – verb agreement
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Chronological structure
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List structure
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paragraphs
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clauses
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Phrases
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Simple compound
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Complex sentences
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Participle phrases
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Punctuation
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End marks
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Colons / semi colons
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Apostrophe use
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Punctuation dialogue
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Quotation marks
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Comma - series
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Comma - dialogue
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Ellipses ….
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Hyper - dash
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Parentheses
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