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05-09-2009, 01:36 PM
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Rod and Staff Grammar Set, 4th Grade set - Building with Diligence, $30.00ppd Set includes teacher's edition, student text, and two sets of worksheet booklets. All in very good condition, lightly used.

$30.00ppd, Media mail to continential USA.
Description: These 127 lessons are divided into 11 chapters. The first two chapters deal with understanding sentence structure and types. Chapters 3-8 and Chapter 10 focus on seven parts of speech--nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions. Chapter 9 teaches concepts about punctuation. Chapter 11 concludes the course with lessons on capitalization, the dictionary, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. Interspersed throughout the book are 33 composition lessons. Continual review is built into the lessons.

The booklet of 68 worksheets is for supplementary practice. The sheets may be copied as needed in teaching this English course.




Rod and Staff 8th Grade Grammar Set, Preparing for Usefulness - Very good condition, $35.00ppd Media mail within continential USA. Set includes teacher's edition and student text.

Description: Preparing for Usefulness
English 8 has 124 lessons divided into 11 chapters. The first two chapters deal with sentence elements and sentence structure. Objective complements, elliptical sentences, and compound-complex sentences are introduced.

Chapter 3 teaches concepts about capitalization and punctuation. Dashes, parentheses, and brackets are introduced.

Chapters 4 10 focus on the parts of speech. These chapters reinforce what has been taught in earlier grades and introduce retained objects, dangling participles, and relative adverbs. Problem words are discussed, and there is plenty of sentence diagraming.

Chapter 11 deals with using reference helps and the public library. Composition lessons introduce persuasive arguments and teach effective sentences, paragraph construction, proofreading, outlines, story writing and poetry at deeper levels. Over one-third of the book deals with composition.