Suzanna Mayer Watt
Description
Ages: 8-13
Grades: 3-8
This book is designed to teach all the basic grammar skills to your students with language or learning disorders. The activities have a slow, straightforward progression; simple directions; and lots of practice pages.
Nineteen units of exercises teach one aspect of grammar at a time. There are 350 pages of practice activities and 50 pages of pretests/posttests (two tests for each unit).
Students master these skills:
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Verb To Be
- Sentences
- Present Tense
- Future Tense
- Past Tense, Regular Verbs
- Past Tense, Irregular Verbs
- Contractions
- Plurals
- Adjectives
- Possessive Nouns
- Possessive Pronouns
- Conjunctions
- Adverbs
- Negatives
- Prepositions
- Questions
Units follow a consistent teaching pattern:
- grammar concept explanation
- examples of usage
- exercises to identify the grammar concept
- fill-in-the-blank and/or multiple-choice exercises
- creating sentences using target words from the unit.
415 pages 8.5 x 11, softcover 1986