Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-17T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Branson, MO

Tagged: Daily Grams, easy grammar, Grammar

This topic has 8 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 10 months ago by Misty.

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May 19, 2015 at 9:21 am
Misty
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I have been reading about right brain learners as I believe I have one more inclined, and read that Daily Grams might be a good fit for him. I am going to have him take the placement test but my question is do I account for spelling errors? Also, could anyone in simple words explain the difference from : Daily Grams & Easy Grammar?
May 19, 2015 at 11:12 am
Karen
Participant
Daily Grams are 180 pages of various types of questions. So, there’d be a sentence that he’d have to name the subject and verb. In another sentence he might have to cross out the prepositional phrase. Then he’d have to find the punctuation error in another sentence. Then he’d have to combine two sentences (e.g. The tree was dying. There was a squirrel in the tree. He’d combine that into “There was a squirrel in the dying tree.” Or something like that. I’m bad with examples! *L*)
Easy Grammar is graded (grades 2 or 3 through 6 or 7, I forget). It’s a workbook full of pages where you do the same thing for the whole page. So, on the page about prep. phrases, you cross them out of 10 sentences or so. Then there might be two pages of that. Then you move to the next concept and underline verbs in 10 sentences. Mastery based, I think.
I’m planning to use Easy Grammar for my 6th grader next year. My long term plan is to alternate Easy Grammar with Daily Grams for my other children starting in their 4th grade year.
From what I understand, Easy Grammar teaches it and Daily Grams review it……but they aren’t really to be used in the same year. I think…..someone, please correct me if I’m wrong!!!
May 19, 2015 at 12:26 pm
Misty
Participant
Thanks for that information. I actually just called the 800 number and was blessed to speak to the author of the program. I explained my situation and she went through it all with me very detailed and I am so happy with what she said. I was also relieved to hear I don’t have to buy the entire series to get my kids up to speed. That was the best part.
May 19, 2015 at 1:47 pm
Karen
Participant
I’d love to hear more of what she said! Did she say that it would work to alternate – Easy Grammar one year and Daily Grams the next?
Did you ask about her Easy Writing book?
May 19, 2015 at 5:28 pm
Misty
Participant
1st let me tell you, we have done very little formal grammar, seems we start one program and move to another *a lot*. I have to stop that. The program I am using I talked with the help desk many times and well it didn’t help. I’m sure it’s as much the users (my kids) as it is the teacher (me).
My kids grammar knowledge is basic basic. Names start with a capital letter, as does the 1st letter in a sentence. Everything ends with some (mind you that’s really what they know) type of punctuation. So I’m not a grammar person and waited a long time to get my act together. I called and I really felt like God was with me on this call cause the author said she never answers the phone her daughter does but for some reason she didn’t want it to go to voice mail. I really believed that after the lengthy conversation. She listened and was so nice to me (even after not giving my kids any grammar), talked me through her suggestions and told me what to start working on now till we get the programs. So here is what she said:”This is for my kids, there needs, based off my conversation, so please if you choose to do this remember that”
Buy: Grammar Plus teacher addition ( this has the option to copy pages which she told me but said with multiple kids I may want a quick done book so the student books are optional, if I don’t want to sit and copy them) and as many student books/test books as I need. Also, buy Daily Grams 7th grade (this does not have the student book in teacher resource) and a workbook per student.
Daily Grams – I am to take no more than 5-10 minutes a lesson, and do it orally until I think they can do it alone, and she said don’t be sad if they never do it alone, just keep moving along. Do this 1st daily.
Grammar Plus – First she said I will need to read the beginning of the teacher book well and understand it, also all the resources and suggestions are important and need to be done with the lessons. Kids – I need to have the kids memorize all the prepositions (50 of them). Start by learning all 9 A ones. Then all B ones, and then A & B together, then C, then A, B & C (or what ever letter is next). Continue till they know them inside and out. She is also sending me a song to help with this. While learning the preps I am to go to the back of the book and cover the unit on capitalization (cause they are not related). Once they have the 50 done I should then start with unit 1 and continue till Verbs. If when we get the unit with verbs they are doing well with punctuation go ahead and do verbs unit and continue on. If they are NOT doing well with punctuation then go to the back of the book and do the unit on punctuation. Once done go back to verbs unit and continue. Do 2 to 3 lessons a day if they are doing well with it, less if they are not getting it and more if they find it easy.
No one at a company has ever taken the time to chat with me like that so I am very grateful. I feel like I how know how to do it and have a chance at succeeding. Also, her daughter is available by email and she said she will get back to me by email if it’s a simple instruction or will ask for my number if she feels a chat would be more helpful, which after today I really believe that also.
There it is. All laid out and I’m feeling good about it. I hope that this will be the one. Cost is fair and time is doable. Thanks for the help Karen.
May 19, 2015 at 7:52 pm
petitemom
Participant
I do not want to confuse you but I had talked to someone from Rainbow Resources and that is not what they recommended. My kids had about the same knowledge of grammar as yours, 5th and 7th graders, and I was told I should start w/Easy Grammar 4th grade and than do the Easy Grammar Plus. I have never done Daily grams, to me it seems kind of overkill and as I understand it is only revision w/out grammatical instructions. The Easy grammar covers enough in my opinion that you would not need to use Daily grams. Could be wrong but it worked out good for us. I already shared this but we are almost done w/it and I feel it covered pretty much all that we needed to cover.
Also it is much better to buy one book and make copies if you can because you cannot take the pages out and the answer are on the left side, questions on the right.
May 20, 2015 at 6:35 am
Karen
Participant
Wow! I’m glad you had such a good experience and that she was so helpful. Thanks for telling us what she said, even though it was directed to your children – it was helpful to me.
One way to help the book situation, to keep the answers hidden – or to help get the book copied is to have the books spiral bound at your local copy shop. I just had my daughter’s done – makes it so much easier.
May 20, 2015 at 10:29 am
petitemom
Participant
That’s a good idea!
May 20, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Misty
Participant
I thought I would give Rainbow resources a call also and they said the Grammar Plus, being my kids are junior high to high school would be a good choice also. They said the daily grams are optional.
So overall the suggestion was the same. I think I will start with Grammar Plus and if I can get hold of a daily gram 7 used book I will add it.