Homeschooling parents, are you ready to:

• Perfect your child’s punctuation?
• Avoid common mistakes?
• Sharpen their writing skills?

Time for Kids: Grammar Rules by Ann Weil and Illustrated by John Joven, is just the ticket to get your 4th through 6th grader writing and speaking like a pro!

I am currently utilizing the Grammar Rules workbook with my 5th grader and it seems to be clicking in areas where she drew a blank before.

What does Grammar Rules specifically cover?

Parts of Speech

Nouns

• Common and Proper Nouns
• Singular and Plural Nouns
• From Noun to Nouns
• Irregular Plurals
• Possessive Nouns

Pronouns

• Subject Pronouns
• The Right Pronoun for the Job
• Object Pronouns
• Pronouns with Compound Objects
• Possessive Pronouns
• Reflexive Pronouns

Verbs

• Types of Verbs
• Writing with Verbs
• Action Shots
• Present, Past, and Future Tenses
• Irregular Verbs
• Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
• Past Tense with Helping Verbs

Adjectives

• Types of Adjectives
• Adjectives and Articles
• Comparing with Adjectives
• Creating Comparatives and Superlatives
• When Do You Need “More?”
• Irregular Adjectives
• Adjectives and Commas
• Order of Adjectives
• Be Descriptive

Adverbs

• Types of Adverbs
• Adjectives vs. Adverbs

Conjunctions

• Coordinating Conjunctions
• Subordinating Conjunctions

Prepositions

• Using Prepositions

Interjections

• Inserting Interjections

Crafting an Expert Sentence

Sentences

• What Makes a Sentence
• Identifying the Subject and the Predicate of a Sentence
• Subjects and Predicates
• Types of Sentences
• Fragments
• Run-On Sentences

Agreement

• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Use your Instincts
• Compound Subjects
• Collective Nouns
• Matching Pronouns and Antecendents

Negatives, Numbers, Titles, and Abbreviations!

Punctuation

Ending Punctuation

• Ending a Sentence

Periods

• When to use Periods

Commas

• When to Use Commas
• Commas with Nonessential Words or Phrases
• Commas and Clauses
• Using Commas to Avoid Confusion
• Commas with Several Items
• More Uses of the Comma
• Do You Really Need a Comma?

Colons, Semicolons, Parentheses, Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, and Ellipses.

Use the Correct Word Every Time

Soundalikes

• Words that Sound Like Another Word
• Other Common Soundalikes
• Possessive Pronouns and Contractions That Sound Alike
• Words with Multiple Meanings

Common Mistakes

• Easily Confused Words
• Good vs. Well
• Bad vs. Badly
• Common Word Misunderstandings
• Compound Words
• One Word or Two?

Spelling

• Common Word Endings
• Frequently Misspelled Word Endings
• Spelling Secrets
• When to Double a Consonant
• Commonly Misspelled Words

Slang

• Avoid Informal Language
• 2 txt or Not 2 txt
• What is Slang?

Ready to Write

Fiction and Nonfiction

• Types of Writing

The Writing Process

• Write in Stages

Prewrite

• Before you Begin Writing
• Narrow Down your Topic
• Get Organized
• Do Some Research

Draft

• Put your Ideas on Paper

Revise

• Reread and Revise
• Choose your Words Wisely

Proofread

• Find and Fix Errors
• Common Proofreading Marks

Publish

• Publishing your Work

The end of the grammar workbook also includes answer keys to all of the topics and pages.

I love this book as it teaches everything so quickly and easily with illustrations, crossword puzzles, etc.  Everything is broken down to avoid confusion which is nice when it comes to grammar.

You can purchase Grammar for Kids on Amazon for $9.59 paperback, originally $11.99.

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