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Part 2: Grammar: Discovering Order in Language

The study of grammar is valuable in helping students to express themselves clearly and creatively. It teaches them to think logically and develops analytic ability. When students see the orderly structure of their language,

we can remind them of God's orderly plan for the world and for their lives

Unit 7: Verbs: The doers of the Sentence

• Sentence Parts
• Parts of Speech
• The Verb
• Action Verbs

• Compound Verbs
• State of Being Verbs
• Helping Verbs
• Verb Phrases

• Recognizing Nouns
• Compound Nouns
• Common & Proper Nouns
• Simple Subjects

• Subjects and Verbs
• Compound Subjects
• Compound Subjects & Verbs
• Diagraming Simple Subjects & Verbs
• Making Nouns Plural

• Pronouns and Antecedents
• Pronouns as Subjects
• Recognizing Pronoun Forms
• Other Pronoun Uses
• Distinguishing Possessive Pronouns from Contractions

• Diagraming Pronoun Subjects
• Diagraming Compound Subjects & Verbs
• Using Pronouns in Your Writing
• Using Proofreaders' Marks

• Identifying Adjectives
• Locating Adjectives
• Diagraming Adjectives

• Noticing Comparisons
• Writing Comparisons
• Using Comparisons Correctly

Tests and Quizzes

Please check the daily homework notice for test & quiz dates.

Please make it a habit to study new concepts covered in class each night

Yearly Goals in language arts

 Composition

• Recognizing and writing good sentences

• Recognizing sentence fragments

• Recognizing and writing declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences.

• Writing friendly letters, business letters, thank-you notes, and post cards.

• Learning the writing process

• Using the encyclopedia

• Writing an encyclopedia report

• Writing and giving book reports

• Reviewing all capitalization rules learned in third grade, a s well as learning additional rules.

• Reviewing all punctuation rules learned in third grade, along with learning additional rules (end marks, commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, colons, underlining)

• Enjoying creative writing

 Grammar

• Mastering subjects and predicates - simple and compound

• Recognizing and using all eight parts of speech

• Verbs - action, state of being, helping; verb phrases; principal parts of verbs (regular and irregular)

• Nouns - common, proper, compound; plurals of nouns

• Pronouns - use in writing; possessive pronouns

• Adjectives - predicate adjectives; comparisons

• Adverbs - distinguishing from adjectives

• Conjunctions

• Interjections

• Diagramming - subjects, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

 Word Usage

• Using the dictionary

• Making subjects and verbs agree

• Using troublesome words (e.g., lie / lay, can / may, to / too / two)