Well, I have to say, that I was busy teaching when my department head came and asked me if I wanted a set of the program. I thought the same thing: A SENTENCE A WEEK? YUCK!!!! I told her that I absolutely would not use it unless required, so I was originally the only teacher that did not get a set purchased for me.
After over half a year of trying to teach grammar in other ways for our standardized state grammar and writing test, having it take up way too much class time which has taken away from the "real writing instruction" I wanted to do, and having students forget what nouns are by the time we have moved on to adjectives, etc. I'm sold on Daily Grammar Practice. What I love about it is that it only takes a few minutes each day and students are not permitted to forget everything they have learned about nouns, etc. once the class moves on to adjectives, because the review is constant. I believe it is published by DGP publishing....if you're interested in looking at it, I can find out for sure for you. May/6th/GA > A whole week on one sentence sounds tough to keep from being > deadly--do you > really feel as if they're learning the language of "English," though? _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
