GrammarPlanet provides an online comprehensive grammar program that is available online and is free supported by advertising. It is a program for students, ages 10 and up, to improve their English and is a good resource for adults as well. It's very easy to set up the students in the portal and once the student logs in, they start by watching a teaching video and reading a PDF of the accompanied notes. I found the notes were best utilized by printing them off to provide to my student. They do not take up a lot of ink for those that need to budget their costs and it's not a requirement to print them. After the student completes the teaching video and reads the notes, they begin to complete the activities that ensures the student understood and retained what they just learned. The activities are what is called responsive so students that require more time to understand will receive more practice before the test. If a student does not gain an acceptable score, they are advised to repeat the video and/or read the notes. If they are having a difficult time with the unit, their unit becomes locked and the parent/teacher has to unlock the unit. Also, if the parent/teacher feels the student might not to retake the unit, he/she has the option to reset a unit.
Recommended Usage:
The recommendation is to spend no more than 15 minutes a day working on a lesson and to work on a lesson every other day.
GrammarPlanet Outline Sample:
It's a nice program that allows the student to be self-sufficient in completing the lessons IF they understand what was taught otherwise, there will be a lot of unlocking by the parent. I did have to step in frequently to help explain some topics but I like to be involved with my children's lessons. This might be better suited for those that are already strong in grammar from the diagramming perspective or a bit older. I thought I was pretty good with grammar but I definitely learned a lot and this would be really beneficial for someone in high school and possibly entering college.
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Recommended Usage:
The recommendation is to spend no more than 15 minutes a day working on a lesson and to work on a lesson every other day.
GrammarPlanet Outline Sample:
- Nouns
- Proper Nouns
- Articles and Adjectives
- Pronoun
- Possessive Pronouns
- Prepositional Pronouns
- Subject/Verb
- Adverbs
- Crazy Modifiers
- Patterns 1 and 2
- Pattern 3
- Patterns 4 and 5
- Helping Verbs
- State of Being Verbs
- Coordinating Conjunctions
That was just a sample of all the 13 units available.
This is a series of screen shots showing my daughter completing the sentence diagram for one practice question. Each shot shows a next step in the process:
The parent dashboard provides a quick summary of where my students are in the program:
Our Review in Summary:
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This is a series of screen shots showing my daughter completing the sentence diagram for one practice question. Each shot shows a next step in the process:
- I had two students utilizing the online program. One is 11 and one is 15 and I followed along with both to ensure they were utilizing it correctly and proceeded as appropriate after I find that I think they were skipping about. The good part of this program is if they get too many wrong, the parent/teacher has to unlock the lesson so it ensures they aren't moving forward without understanding the material.
- The quizzes in between the lessons also helps to reinforce the student's knowledge before proceeding forward.
- The teacher speaks clear and at the right speed. Both my students were puzzled at why the teacher is only shown from the head up. I do hope they fix that with adding some bigger type aids to correspond with the lesson as well as record her by moving back to show more of her.
- The notes, that can be printed at anytime, reinforce what is being taught.
- A subject can be repeated and the menu pops up by hovering the mouse over it.
- During the practice and tests, they did have difficulty remembering the different abbreviations for noun, verb, adjective, preposition, etc. so that part took a little longer than both liked. Although it seemed redundant or boring to them, it provided an opportunity for them to really understand and learn how to identify each part of the sentence.
- The parent can change the settings to be alerted to remember to sign on and when a student completes a lesson.
It's a nice program that allows the student to be self-sufficient in completing the lessons IF they understand what was taught otherwise, there will be a lot of unlocking by the parent. I did have to step in frequently to help explain some topics but I like to be involved with my children's lessons. This might be better suited for those that are already strong in grammar from the diagramming perspective or a bit older. I thought I was pretty good with grammar but I definitely learned a lot and this would be really beneficial for someone in high school and possibly entering college.
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