I discovered Daily GRAMS ~ 4 years ago when A was in 6th grade. I was so ecstatic when I was provided with the physical
Daily GRAMS: Grade 7 book by
Easy Grammar Systems to review this year with C. He completed the Grade 6 book last year so this was a perfect fit to jump into for this school year. The Daily GRAMS series is available for grades 3-7.
The Daily Grams books have 180 lessons that are designed to be daily (hence the name), 5-10 minute reviews. I think of it as bite-size grammar lessons. Topics focus on capitalization, punctuation, grammar and other concepts throughout the various lessons as well as sentence combining for improving the quality of writing. Because these books review concepts rotationally it enhances mastery of the material.
Above you can see the format of these lessons.
In Day 5's lesson above you can see that it begins with capitalization as every lesson does. The student is to circle the letters that are to be capitalized and write the capital letter above the lowercase one. The next section is meant for students to add the correct punctuation as needed. The middle portion of the lesson changes and varies from lesson to lesson. This lesson address clauses and phrases as well as helping verbs. And lastly, each lesson ends with sentence combining.
Day 7 lesson
In Day 7's lesson you can see that the punctuation part of the lesson is an outline instead of a sentence in the previous example I showed you. This middle section addresses alphabetizing and adjectives.
Day 9 lesson
And in Day 9's lesson you can see that the punctuation part of the lesson is abbreviations while the middle section addresses irregular and regular verbs.
I hope these examples give you a better idea of the format for each of the 180 lessons. They have a similar format and flow that your student will become accustomed to. After C completes his lesson, I grade it and then talk about anything that he missed or I ask if he has questions about anything. We both really enjoy these reviews and I appreciate that it helps me see some of his strengths and weaknesses.
The teacher text has reproducible student pages in the front portion of the book and contains the answer key in the back portion of the book. If you do not wish to make your own copies, you can purchase a separate student workbook or if you are using this program with only one student, they can write directly in the teacher text. I let C write directly in our book.
Answer Key
The answer key for all 180 lessons is located at the back of the book behind all of the lesson pages. It helps make grading a breeze!
I love the Daily GRAMS series because the lessons are extremely manageable and C likes completing them. Although short, the lesson really pack a punch in that they help me see what concepts C is having trouble with or hasn't quite mastered yet and which ones he has nailed down. It allows me ample opportunity to continue to reinforce rules and different aspects of grammar. I want to make a special note that this series in not the teaching series from Easy Grammar Systems. They have a separate Easy Grammar Series that is the teaching series while the Daily Grams series is just the review series. I hope that makes sense - it's important to note this though.
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