Course Details

This course has been created for the youngest eager writers, starting at 2nd grade. During the eight week pre-sentence course, students are introduced to parts of speech and taught how to recognize and use them in a sentence. Students are taught to recognize and form a complete sentence with a subject and predicate and they also learn basic capitalization rules and proofreading strategies. Improves writing skills as students learn the fundamentals of proper grammar.

Course contents:

• Unit 1 – Nouns By the end of the first unit, students will be able to correctly identify common nouns and capitalize proper nouns and differentiate between concrete and abstract nouns.
• Unit 2 – Pronouns and Adjectives By the end of the Unit 2, students should have a complete understanding of all types of pronouns. Students will also be introduced to adjectives and will be able to recognize and use them in sentences.
• Unit 3 – Verbs By the end of the Unit 3, students will be able to correctly identify action, helping, and linking verbs in a sentence.
• Unit 4 – Capitalization By the end of the Unit 4, students will be able to recognize and utilize the most common capitalization rules.
• Unit 5 – Sentence Structure By the end of Unit 4, students will be able to identify and correct run-on sentences and fragments.
• Unit 6 – Sentence Subject By the end of Unit 6, students will be able to correctly identify complete subjects in sentences and be able to form complete sentences with subjects.
• Unit 7 – Sentence Predict By the end of unit 7, students will be able to correctly identify the predicate in a sentence and form complete sentences with predicates.
• Unit 8 – Proofreading By the end of unit 8, students will begin to recognize simple proofreading strategies and utilize them in their own writing.