"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.
Website: Easy Grammar
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Grades Used: 3, 5, 7
After using A Beka for years, we're so relieved to use Easy Grammar. It is very simple to use and covers the basic mechanics of Grammar in an easy to use format. As this book is used, it is a good idea to keep in mind that Grammar is not teaching children to "write", but the mechanics of putting sentences and words together properly. If you're looking for a book that encompasses writing, you may want to look at Easy Writing, by the same publisher.
Cons: not very creative, a tad droll but it is grammar after all!
Grades Used: 6th
We are using Easy Grammar 6, this is our first year homeschooling. So far it is excellent, and an easy addition to our weekly schedule. We are of course using a separate writing program, as this is only for grammar and does not encompass all of language arts. I have found that it takes some adjustment to just jump into, but I think public school was pretty behind in grammar education! For us this program is a perfect fit.
Cons: none that I can think of
Grades Used: elementary through jr high
We have used this grammar program for years with great success. As other reviewers have noted, the actual grammar program is not intended to teach writing. This program is not a stand-alone language arts program, it only teaches grammar. The newer versions of the books do have a writing section in the back, but I have not used that piece of the newer books. Daily Grams does address the writing skill of sentence combining.
As grammar instruction, this program works wonders. My chidlren learned to understand the parts of speech without tears. We have found with our reluctant writers much of the program can be done orally with little adjustment.
Grammar, if taught correctly in the early grades, does not have to continue through high school, much like addition and subtraction are never explicitly taught again in high school. With that in mind, Easy Grammar provides just enough material for a home school to teach grammar without overdoing it. We often use one guide over two years, and use only two or three student books for each child from middle elementary through junior high.
Cons: needs more creative activities
Grades Used: 3,4,5,6
After using Abeka, my boys became tired of all the handwriting and seat work. Another home school friend told me about this. I used it last year and what a difference. They actually enjoy grammar. They get it done and learn it.
Cons: Doesn't help with writing
Grades Used: 1st-6th grades
I mostly use Easy Grammar as a supplement. It's good worksheet practice for grammar skills. I've only bought the Student Books because they explain everything quite well and are only missing the answers. I remove pages such as preposition lists and types of a verb to laminate for quick reference. Learning grammar will not make kids good writers. It is necessary for test taking.
Cons: Can be monotonous, not much thinking involved
Grades Used: 1st-high school levels
When I started homeschooling, this was the most popular curriculum. I used it with Daily Grams at the time. My kids thought it was easy to use, and they just kept going. The problem was that they finished all the levels through high school by 6th grade. Once we switched curriculums, there understanding dropped dramatically, so I was concerned that they were just being trained to "spit back" information without really thinking about it. Hence the reason I switched my younger kids to First Language Lessons.
The strongest thing about this curriculum is teaching how to find a the subject and the verb, and lessons in punctuation and capitalization. This makes for awesome standardized testing scores...but not necessarily understanding on how to write good sentences.
Cons: It only goes through Grade 7.
Grades Used: 3rd,4th, 5th, 6th and Grade Plus (7th)
Another reviewer mentioned that you had to cover the answer page as your child work on the page. This is only true if you are having them child do the work using the teacher's guide. There is also a student workbook and a test book that they can use that does not have the answers. Also, the child takes a pre-test at the beginning of the year and then the same test at the end of the year. It is so cool to see how much they have really learned! I firmly believe that both of my children are better at writing and foreign languages because of the knowledge of grammar that they received from this curriculum.
Cons: The answers on the page next to the work text. You have to cover it or really trust your child.
Grades Used: 5th
This book is very easy to use and understand. The book has the work on one page and the answers on the opposite page. You must cover the answers, copy the pages, or trust your child not to peek at the answers. Not a colorful book on the inside if you child requires that style of book for learning.