jet
- Reviewed on Tuesday, May 12, 2009
- Grades Used: 5th grade and 7th grade
- Dates used: fall 2008
Last fall I used the Analytical Grammar Jr. with my two children. I
was pleased with the building of skills each week. By the end of the program both my children felt comfortable identifying the parts of speech. It has also helped with their writing as well since we can talk about what is missing in a sentence.
Since this is only my second year home schooling, I decided to complete Iowa tests, ITBS, to see how I was doing with home schooling. I just received my 5th grader test results. In the grammar section of language, my daughter scored 100%! I don't have test results from my 7th grader yet, but I am sure this child did equally as well.
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spetzi
- Reviewed on Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- Grades Used: 4th
- Dates used: 2009
We are almost done with the first season of Analytical Grammar (there are two more seasons in the program.) AG explains everything completely and concisely. There is a lesson then 3 pages to practice. The author encourages us to have the student skip the 3rd page if they seem to have full comprehension after 2 days of practice. I love that they don't want it to be unncessarily repetitive. There is also a Skills Suport page where the student will parse (label the parts of speech) a paragraph or famous speech. S/he also has to paraphrase the passage. My son really enjoyed the Skills Support page.
After one reads the lesson, has 3 practice pages and completes the Skills Support there is a test (on day 5, if you complete one section/day.) All tests and exercises are open note to foster full understanding rather than guessing. I've found ds rarely has to refer to his notes for the test.
There is an instructional video on their website. Everything I purchased was exactly as described, except that it was even easier to use than I anticipated.
We are using this with a math-minded child who is academically ahead (AG is recommended for middle school grades.) It has been a perfect fit!
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kristintunes
- Reviewed on Tuesday, April 14, 2009
- Grades Used: 4th-5th
- Dates used: 2006-2009
I have been so thankful for Junior Analytical Grammar. It just makes sense. It has worked well for my dyslexic, visual-spatial daughter and her younger sister who easily gets anything to do with reading and language arts. I will use it with my youngest daughter the next two years (she'll be in 4th and 5th grade). We take two years to do it, therefore we don't do it even half the year. I use daily grams 3-4 days per week and we just keep up our skills that way.
The diagramming part really helped my oldest daughter understand grammar better. I cannot speak to the older kids AG. My oldest is now in 7th grade in public school so I haven't had to use it. But I definitely recommend the Jr. AG. I followed up the next year with Shurley English 7. It was a smooth transition.
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blessedmom4
- Reviewed on Sunday, May 11, 2008
- Grades Used: 5th
- Dates used: 2007-2008
We are just wrapping up our time with Junior Analytical gammar. I'm sold, I plan to use it all the way through AG. I'm amazed how much and how quickly my girls learned the basics and some impressive diagramming. If you want a simple but powerful grammar resource, this is it. Do yourself a favor and check out the analytical grammar website. The authors have a media player video explaining the program in detail. Love it!
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