Easy Grammar Plus Student Workbook

The book I ordered was supposed to be in excellent condition. However, there's writing in half the book.

I have just recently began using this workbook for two Deaf high school students who were having an impossible time learning to read and write English.Obviously, they can not know that something 'sounds'wrong like people who can hear do, so they are really dependent on learning the rules of the English language and being able to rely on the memorization of those rules. In that regard, this book is a winner! The grammar rules are clearly laid out and are incremental, building upon what was already learned. And I just love being able to cross out the prepositional phrases first! They had always previously "gotten lost in all the words" and would get so frustrated they would just give up. This makes everything so much easier and I am already seeing improvements; including their attitude toward English! This book is also written at such a level that they aren't insulted by kiddie pictures and babyish graphics. It is very professional and I just can't say enough about it. I only wish I had found it sooner!

This is a huge workbook! It has a lot of review. After initially covering a part of grammar: preposition, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, the student is then given a lot of practice. At the beginning of the book Wanda Phillips states that the "student must learn the 50 prepositions... memorized" I absolutely agree. No more guess work with what word is a preposition. There are 53 in this workbook but if you take them one letter at a time they will not be hard to learn, " about, above, across after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, atop." When those are learned you move on to the B's. Phillips reasoning is that if you can identify prepositions and eliminate all prepositional phrases in a sentence, you will be able to identify subject, verb, direct object etc. a lot easier because you, for example, won't be confusing a beginning prepositional phrase with being the subject of the sentence: "One of the students walks to the front of the class." Crossing out the prepositional phrase, "of the students," you can easily see that "one" is the subject of the sentence. Mastery is the key to grammar and this book helps you get there.

The only thing missing from this curriculium is a writing course. The book makes learning grammar soooo easy. I used this for all three of my children. Once finished with this book they flew through other curriculiums with much more understanding!

This book approaches teaching parts of speech and grammar by first introducing the preposition and prepositional phrase. Once the student can identify and eliminate the prepositional phrases in a sentence, determining the subject, verb and other parts of speech is then made much easier. I have found that going through this book with my children has helped improve my understanding of this complex subject.

Are you a language arts teacher? Do you want to be sure that you are teaching grammar, tenses, punctuation properly? Do you ever have questions about parts of speech, clauses? Methodically using this book will ensure that you are teaching the necessary conventions to enrich your students' writing. It is a book every intermediate teacher needs in his/her professional library.