Our daughter, who is 11 and in the 6th grade, has been struggling with Grammar. I was so thrilled to hear we had been chosen to receive and review Fix It! Grammar from Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW). After researching it on the website, I knew this would be a good fit for Hope. I also loved that they have a placement test to see where your student is so you can purchase the level that would be perfect for them.
We were given the Teacher's Manual and the Student Book for this review, but if you can not purchase both, the Teacher's Manual gives you instructions on how to download the Student Book as a PDF for free. You are free to print as many workbooks you need for your family as long as you purchased the Teacher's Manual. I think that is amazing!!! How many companies allow you to do this?
Before you begin your journey with Fix It! Grammar, I suggest you watch the free webinar to get acquainted with the program and how it works. It was very helpful for me. I also enjoyed watching the You Tube video of Andrew Pedewa explaining the program as well. He is the one of the leaders of IEW. He does a very good job of walking you through this program.
When Hope took the placement test, we found that Level 3 Frog Prince, or Just Deserts, would be a good fit for her. They have 6 Levels in total for Fix It! Grammar. The placement tests will help you discern where your child will work best with the program. If you have any questions about where to place them, it is best to begin with the first one.
So what makes this Grammar program different? It is how they approach teaching it. Instead of doing a bunch of exercises that teach each Grammar rule, your student will dive right real-life sentences that help them implement the rules of Grammar. This will then help them edit and correct their own writing later on.
We couldn't wait to begin when the books arrived. I took a day or so to look over the materials and what we would need. I found that it would take us about 15 to 20 minutes to complete each lesson. We would be working 5 days a week as well.
The first thing you do as a teacher is to go through the review cards for the lesson you are on. These cards come with your Student workbook or when you print out the workbook pages. They are located right before the Glossary at the back. You can cut out each week as you go or all of them at once. So ours didn't get lost we made a little pocket at the front of the Student book to keep them safe.
The lessons are set up in four sections.
1. Learn It
2. Fix It
3. Discuss It
4. Copy It
You will talk about what new grammar concepts will be coming up then you work on fixing the mistakes in the sentences that you are given. After your student makes the necessary fixes, you will discuss why they made the changes. Once they have learned all they can from the passage, they will copying the passage in it's corrected form in a separate notebook. This helps to reinforce what they have learned.
My daughter usually gets very frustrated with Grammar workbooks because they are so repetitious. The way this is set up she feels like she is learning more useful tools to help her improve her Writing and Grammar skills.
I liked the Glossary that came with the Teacher Manual and Student book. It helped to remind us of the rules of Grammar and editing that we have been learning. It's very simple to look through and is at your fingertips when doing your lessons.
We are enjoying this Grammar curriculum and would encourage anyone looking for a new approach to teaching and learning Grammar to try it.
If you want more information on Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) I would suggest that you check out their website and their social media pages listed below:
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