Easy Grammar Plus Workbook (ISBN 0936981148)

Easy Grammar for 20 years!!:
I have been teaching in a private school for 20 years. I have been using this workbook since the beginning. It still holds up as the most solid workbook for language arts skills. My original teacher's edition is falling apart, but continues to be my most used workbook. Its approach is simple and straight-forward. It is easy for the students to understand and provides logical sequence of language arts skills. The children enjoy working from this book better than any of the other various publishers I use. I have used these practice pages for fourth graders through high school students. It is what the title says: Easy Grammar.

Wonderful addition to English course...:
The only thing missing from this curriculium is a writing course. The book makes learning grammar soooo easy. I used this for all three of my children. Once finished with this book they flew through other curriculiums with much more understanding!

Great as a supplement.:
My daughter really enjoyed zipping through this book. I did find that she needed a more text book approach to grammar. This has been a great way to introduce parts of speech.

Great for Deaf students!:
I have just recently began using this workbook for two Deaf high school students who were having an impossible time learning to read and write English.Obviously, they can not know that something 'sounds'wrong like people who can hear do, so they are really dependent on learning the rules of the English language and being able to rely on the memorization of those rules. In that regard, this book is a winner! The grammar rules are clearly laid out and are incremental, building upon what was already learned. And I just love being able to cross out the prepositional phrases first! They had always previously "gotten lost in all the words" and would get so frustrated they would just give up. This makes everything so much easier and I am already seeing improvements; including their attitude toward English! This book is also written at such a level that they aren't insulted by kiddie pictures and babyish graphics. It is very professional and I just can't say enough about it. I only wish I had found it sooner!

Good Grammar Taught Well:
This is a huge workbook! It has a lot of review. After initially covering a part of grammar: preposition, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, the student is then given a lot of practice. At the beginning of the book Wands Phillips states that the "student must learn the 50 prepositions... memorized" I absolutely agree. No more guess work with what word is a preposition. There are 53 in this workbook but if you take them one letter at a time they will not be hard to learn, " about, above, across after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, atop." When those are learned you move on to the B's. Phillips reasoning is that if you can identify prepositions and eliminate all prepositional phrases in a sentence, you will be able to identify subject, verb, direct object etc. a lot easier because you, for example, won't be confusing a beginning prepositional phrase with being the subject of the sentence: "One of the students walks to the front of the class." Crossing out the prepositional phrase, "of the students," you can easily see that "one" is the subject of the sentence. Mastery is the key to grammar and this book helps you get there.