[LIT] Materials for balanced literacy 4 to 8?

[May Dartez]

Well, I have to say, that I was busy teaching when my department head 
came and asked me if I wanted a set of the program.
I thought the same thing: A SENTENCE A WEEK? YUCK!!!! I told her that I 
absolutely would not use it unless required, so I was
originally the only teacher that did not get a set purchased for me.

After over half a year of trying to teach grammar in other ways for our 
standardized state grammar and writing test, having it take up way too 
much class time which has taken away from the "real writing 
instruction" I wanted to do, and having students forget what nouns are 
by the time we have moved on to adjectives, etc. I'm sold on Daily 
Grammar Practice. What I love about it is that it only takes a few 
minutes each day and students are not permitted to forget everything 
they have learned about nouns, etc. once the class moves on to 
adjectives, because the review is constant.

I believe it is published by DGP publishing....if you're interested in 
looking at it, I can find out for sure for you.

May/6th/GA





> A whole week on one sentence sounds tough to keep from being 
> deadly--do you
> really feel as if they're learning the language of "English," though?