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Sentence diagramming and composition
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Wow, there is a rather mixed bag of comments here. I was expecting to hear mostly “Of course you must diagram sentences….Charlotte’s students diagrammed 100 sentences per week!” (LOL)
I’m going to have to reread these posts and think about all of this. I barely recall diagramming sentences in school, but then I don’t know if it was generally included in public junior high and high school back in the ’70’s….(oops, you DID NOT hear me say that!)
Here are two diagramming sites I have used:
http://www.german-latin-english.com/diagrams.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams2/diagrams_frames.htm
When I use this second grammar link from my ipad and select a sentence part to be illustrated, I have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the example. It doesn’t send you to a new page.
Mary Daly’s The First Whole Book of Diagrams has been helpful to me as well.
I also use the Mary Daly book, in conjunction with our preferred grammar book, Our Mother Tongue, which also includes simple diagramming.
I think diagramming is just fun. (Useful too)
We’ve been dabbling in it lately (my kids are 14, 11, 10 this Sunday). I think they think it’s fun. We take turns doing it on the dry erase board with silly sentences about ourselves. My youngest turned the compound subject lines into rockets!
Don’t you love homeschooling!
I don’t remember diagraming in school. I barely remember learning grammar. I did FLL levels 1-4 with my daughter who is now 10 almost 11. She started to really understand the parts of speech once the diagramming started because she saw HOW the words worked together and why they were classified into their parts. I also finally learned how grammar worked by instructing First Language Lessons. I saw considerable improvement in my daughter’s speech as well. I am now in level 2 of FLL with my son who is 7. I am seeing the same improvement in his speech and narrations starting to form as he is learning to answer in complete sentences as requested by the program.
Now Writing With Ease. I waited to start him in level 1 this year. I can see Charlotte’s guide for writing as extremely wise. WWE is also helping form his oral narrating, providing good copy work, and training him in comprehension. SO pleased with WWE. We are in week 10 now. I had tried other writing curriculum with my daughter and SHOULD HAVE had her into WWE before now. She has struggled a bit with reading comprehension and pulling out the summary and main points of what she read, until now. I started her in WWE level 3 this year. She is in week 10 as well, and I see growth. It has been teaching her how to organize her thoughts and sift information. She had been having difficulty in math word problems because of not being able to pin point what was important. Is it a coincidence that she is doing better in word problems now?
I just wanted to share my experience with the Peace Hill Press materials. They have been slow and steady as well as very successful. I am not one to really stick with a curriculum unless I see fruit. And anything that falls inline with Charlotte’s methods has always bore fruit, always. Food for thought. Best wishes on your language journey… let us know how it is going later!
Well, I don’t ever remember diagramming either. Maybe that is why I could be miss understood….. Tehe he…
In all reality though I think I also didn’t have much problem learning German either. It just came naturally. Just like you said Tara. So, I must have been teaching myself and didn’t know it. I know my teachers didn’t teach it. So, either I read the text book and absorbed it threw osmosis or I just learned it naturally.
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