Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind - Red Bundle

Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind red bundle of 3 books. There are 2 books standing in the back and one book laid open in front of them, showing a review of lesson 5. The standing right book has a white top and pink-colored bottom with a wave shape between the 2 colors. There is an illustration in the white section of a tree with books for leaves and a stack of books near the trunk. In the pink section at the bottom is the title. Tucked behind the pink book is a green version of the book.

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Grades: 6th-12th

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Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind - Red Bundle
This innovative grammar program will take your student from the fundamental definition of a noun through a detailed analysis of complex sentence structure. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind will give him the skills he will need for articulate writing and confident speech. It does this by providing explicit definitions of rules and plenty of practice. Step-by-step instructions and regular review are the hallmarks of this program.

Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind is a nonsequential collection of workbooks. Use them in any order for four years to give your student an extensive familiarity with the rules and how well-known authors use those rules. Each workbook contains the same rules, but each has different exercises and assignments. This repetition solidifies the concepts, definitions, and examples for your student. The uber-helpful scripted lessons of Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind make teaching grammar a breeze for parents.

 

 

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Jana
Mixed feelings about this one

This curriculum was included as part of a non-religious elite kit provided by a charter school. We’ve used this resource with our son since September and I’m still not quite sure what I think about it! My initial thoughts are that this is a solid and robust grammar program. That being said, it has been a struggle for our 7th grader. Each lesson has an oral teacher lead component that tends to be useful and productive. Most of the written exercises are designed for the student to complete independently following the verbal instruction. These exercises, while wonderful, have proved frustrating for our learner. Beyond the time it takes for him to complete the work, it has been a challenge for him to accurately complete much of the written work. The following day we spend time correcting the written work together before moving on to the next lesson. Often our middle schooler is headed toward burn out as we begin the spoken part of the day’s lesson after having spent a bunch of time on corrections. By the time he gets to the written exercises for the day, I’m not sure he is still able to fully focus on the work at hand. We loved the First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind, books 1-4 at the primary level, so I thought this curriculum would be a better fit than it has been. I’ve also been left wondering if not having any grammar curriculum in our Timberdoodle kit during the 5th and 6th grade years created a hurtle as we jumped straight into this curriculum after a 2 year hiatus. We completed 12 weeks of this curriculum over the first 18 weeks of our school year. As of now, we’ve set these books aside, it seems we run the risk of our kiddo despising this component of language arts if we continue pounding on.

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KS
Thorough, but simple concepts are made too challenging due to texts chosen

I have used Well Trained Mind grammar for the younger years and really enjoyed the approach, so I bought this for my older students (grades 6 and 7). The content is great, however, the texts chosen for students to apply the newly learned concept are usually very outdated literature selections. This makes understanding the actual text challenging, while also trying to apply a newly learned grammar concept. We are struggling with learning the GRAMMAR due to the texts having outdated language or referring to outdated 'popular culture' that my kids are not familiar with, so they can't properly apply the new grammar skill. We are getting through it, but not enjoying it and I am not sure my kids are learning the grammar very well because they are stumbling over the selected literature and references within the literature so much. We will likely shelve it if it continues to be so complicated for even the simplest of concepts.