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Grammar & Composition

These homemade writing classes are mainly for 3-9 grades. My children enjoyed them a great deal, but of course I made the classes just for them.

Ice Breakers
warm-up your children's imagination

Sentence Starters

Add to a Story

Noun Phrase Builders
Making Noun Phrases for Grade 7-up

Ease Into Writing: Timed Writing

Who Needs an Illustration
writing sentences

Activity One
Subject | Transitive Verb | Direct Object

Activity Two
Subject | Intransitive Verb

Other
planner
pdfAssignment Planner
docAssignment Planner
The Assignment Planner has 4 places to break down an assignment into phases. An assignment that is commonly broken into phases is the research paper. Often, there will be a due date for the completed assignment, a due date for the outline, a due date for the rough draft and so on. This form might be useful for your child to record what part of an assignment is due and when it is due.

Resources:

The Synonym Finder by J. I. Rodale (an excellent thesaurus)

Hodges' Harbrace College Handbook by Hodges and Whitten, published by Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich (an excellent handbook) These can often be found at your public library and used book stores. The older editions are good so if you can find a used one for free or under $10, get it. [I have two, published in 1963 and 1984]


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