Homeschool Grammar

Everyone wants to know what homeschool grammar program to use and how to teach grammar with the least amount of stress. Some end up getting burned out trying to teach grammar and others seem to have children that naturally “get it” without much instruction.

Here is my best summation of what it takes to teach homeschool grammar and some resources that I have found that make it easier:

• If you teach grammar in grades 1-6, you shouldn’t have to teach it after that. If they don’t get it by then, you have some problems on your hands.

• Read to your children and let them read as much as possible. Reading and hearing great literature will help your children develop good grammar skills better than anything else. After hearing you read and reading themselves, they will be able to tell if a sentence sounds right or not.

Basically, you will teach them:

• Parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
• Contractions
• Types of sentences and basic sentence structure
• Prepositions and prepositional phrases
• Conjunctions
• Direct and indirect objects
• Punctuation and capitals
• Noun/verb agreement
• Similes/Metaphors
• Pronouns
• Sentence fragments and run-ons
• Types of Letters

Remember, you don’t have to teach all this to them in one year! Just keep teaching a little at a time and keep building on what you taught them and they will have a good handle on grammar.

Whether you use Winston Grammar ,Easy Grammar (2 of my favorites) or some other method of teaching grammar, just keep at it and you will see results. Mad Libs help children keep up on knowing their parts of speech in a fun way.

Internet Resources for Grammar

Free Online Grammar and Writing Handbook – This is the best resource I found and it’s free! You just have to print it off. http://www.sfreading.com/resources/ghb.html They have books available for grades 1-6.

Free worksheets to print

Grammar Cheat Sheet

Mad Libs Online

Interactive worksheets to review parts of speech

Lots of online grammar resources

More Internet resources for homeschooling for all subjects.

Do you need an expensive grammar curriculum? Maybe and maybe not – it just depends on your teaching style and your child’s learning style. Whatever you do, make sure you choose the resources for your child and not try to fit your child into a curriculum that you decided to purchase.

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