More About Our Homeschool Language Arts Schoolhouse Grammar Curriculum

Each of the Schoolhouse Grammar grades can be used as a full year of grammar or as additional practice and review.

Schoolhouse Grammar: First Grade

Our Schoolhouse Grammar: First Grade curriculum is written from a language development perspective, meaning each concept is first introduced through auditory and exploratory activities (receptive), and then the student is encouraged to apply the skill through a combination of verbal, hands-on, and paper/pencil exercises.

Plenty of review is built in, using a spiral approach to encourage mastery of skills with meaningful contexts. Extension activities challenge the student to take concepts a step further and tap into the child’s overall cognitive and literacy development. Paper/pencil and reading tasks are included but can easily be adapted if necessary without losing the learning opportunities available for a concept. The lesson plan follows a schedule of 3 days per week for 36 weeks.

Schoolhouse Grammar: Second Grade

Our Schoolhouse Grammar: Second Grade curriculum follows the deductive approach. This is a teacher-center approach that saves time in planning, allowing more time for learning and practicing. Each lesson provides a definition and example for teachers to present and an exercise for students to complete. The lesson plan follows a schedule of 3 days per week for 28 weeks.

Schoolhouse Grammar: Third Grade

Our Schoolhouse Grammar: Third Grade curriculum covers the same topics and lessons as our Schoolhouse Grammar: Fourth Grade curriculum, yet has different exercises for students to complete. Each lesson provides a definition, example, and exercises for grammar topics, such as capitalization, synonyms, antonyms, periods, commas, contractions, parts of speech, diagramming sentences, tricky words, and more. The lesson plan follows a schedule of 5 days per week for 25 weeks.

Schoolhouse Grammar: Fourth Grade

Our Schoolhouse Grammar: Fourth Grade curriculum covers the same topics and lessons as our Schoolhouse Grammar: Third Grade curriculum, yet has different exercises for students to complete. Each lesson provides a definition, example, and exercises for grammar topics, such as capitalization, synonyms, antonyms, periods, commas, contractions, parts of speech, diagramming sentences, tricky words, and more. The lesson plan follows a schedule of 5 days per week for 25 weeks.

Schoolhouse Grammar: Fifth Grade

Our Schoolhouse Grammar: Fifth Grade curriculum includes 180 lessons with exercises covering various topics, such as nouns, verbs, sentence structure, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, modifiers, prepositions, punctuation, and more. The lesson plan follows a schedule of 5 days per week for 36 weeks.