The Achievements Grammar Fundamentals curriculum is a unique and interactive program for learning grade- level grammar concepts.
It combines grammar instruction with a fascinating retelling of the history of long- distance communication and engaging, hands-on code-breaking activities facilitated via the gradual release of responsibility teaching model.
The aim of this curriculum is for students to use the conjugate basic grammar building blocks, such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives, as well as more advanced language elements like modal auxiliaries, abstract nouns and coordination conjunctions to construct sentences and paragraphs that are interesting and grammatically correct and that flow well.
This curriculum includes the following skills:
- Reviewing basic parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions
- Reviewing sentence elements, including end punctuation, capitalization rules, and subjects and predicates
- Revising run-on sentences and correction sentence fragments
- Identifying, producing, and using relative pronouns, modal auxiliaries and relative adverbs
- Conjugating verbs into simple and progressive tenses/
- Using and punctuating coordinating conjunctions to create more complex sentences
- Embellishing language by using adverbs and adjectives to provide descriptive and sensory details Using direct and indirect quotes
- Punctuating direct quotes correctly, including adding commas, end punctuation, proper capitalization, and quotation marks
- Proofreading for capitalization, punctuation, syntactic and spelling errors
Key Features of Grammar Fundamentals Include:
- Lessons are presented alongside and engaging storyline that explores the real history of communication through pictures, stories, and interesting facts.
- The curriculum delves in key historical events such as the Pony Express, the development of semaphore, the invention f braille, and the use of Morse Code
- The interesting narrative and historical tidbits draw students in and motivate them to learn grammar