Could your 8-9 year old complete a grammar worksheet? Write out an address correctly?

[Anonymous]

Do you think your 8 or 9 year olds could do reasonably well completing a grammar worksheet? Topics: commas in a series, commas in direct address, quotation marks to show speech, proper capitalization, end punctuation. Can they write an address correctly with the right abbreviations, capitalization, and punctuation? And if they can't, what age do you expect them to be able to?

Example Qs to correct:

1. no John you cant go to the park today

2. caracas venezuela is a city in south america

3. my address is 152 elm street sacramento ca 94203

[Anonymous]

Yes, my 9 year old was doing this last year in ELA. Worksheets where they had to correct capitalization and punctuation like in your examples.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, my 9 year old was doing this last year in ELA. Worksheets where they had to correct capitalization and punctuation like in your examples.

Did you find it actually helped DC use correct capitalization and punctuation in their own writing?

[Anonymous]

Yes, once they switched to CKLA it improved all these core areas. The curriculum is free online if you want to use it to supplement if your school is not using it already.

[Anonymous]

My kids learned the period at the end of the sentence and capitalization first. The commas took longer to master.

[Anonymous]

My older one couldn’t because they didn’t teach grammar in public ES. My younger one went to Catholic school and had a grammar textbook every year starting in 2nd/3rd grade. He got a grade for grammar and had homework too. Night and day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, my 9 year old was doing this last year in ELA. Worksheets where they had to correct capitalization and punctuation like in your examples.

Did you find it actually helped DC use correct capitalization and punctuation in their own writing?

Yes, it improved a lot but isn’t always perfect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think your 8 or 9 year olds could do reasonably well completing a grammar worksheet? Topics: commas in a series, commas in direct address, quotation marks to show speech, proper capitalization, end punctuation. Can they write an address correctly with the right abbreviations, capitalization, and punctuation? And if they can't, what age do you expect them to be able to?

Example Qs to correct:

1. no John you cant go to the park today

2. caracas venezuela is a city in south america

3. my address is 152 elm street sacramento ca 94203

Son is in 2nd grade (age 7). He could do the capitalization and punctuation but not the commas or quotations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think your 8 or 9 year olds could do reasonably well completing a grammar worksheet? Topics: commas in a series, commas in direct address, quotation marks to show speech, proper capitalization, end punctuation. Can they write an address correctly with the right abbreviations, capitalization, and punctuation? And if they can't, what age do you expect them to be able to?

Example Qs to correct:

1. no John you cant go to the park today

2. caracas venezuela is a city in south america

3. my address is 152 elm street sacramento ca 94203

My kids are in college now, products of MCPS, no way they could have done this in 2nd grade. I have little memory of 2nd grade, but, there are kids who still aren't reading fluently. I think the level of grammar in these example questions is 3rd grade and up.

[Anonymous]

Not commas. Could do the rest. We also go to a weekend language school and there they do a lot of grammar and sentence forming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think your 8 or 9 year olds could do reasonably well completing a grammar worksheet? Topics: commas in a series, commas in direct address, quotation marks to show speech, proper capitalization, end punctuation. Can they write an address correctly with the right abbreviations, capitalization, and punctuation? And if they can't, what age do you expect them to be able to?

Example Qs to correct:

1. no John you cant go to the park today

2. caracas venezuela is a city in south america

3. my address is 152 elm street sacramento ca 94203

Most 8-year-olds could do that. I think knowing to put a comma after the name of a city is the rule they often forget.

[Anonymous]

My kids were learning those skills and doing that type of worksheet in second grade.

[Anonymous]

Really depends on whether your kids are at a school that is expressly teaching grammar. Our ES did not really do this before but switched curriculum this year and now my third grader is learning more of this stuff. His sister is in fifth and I'm not sure she learned all of this sort of stuff, which irks me to no end, but she is learning it now.

[Anonymous]

My 8 yr old third grader can do this. We homeschool and these are things I’ve taught this year (comma use, and quotations).

[Anonymous]

9 yo fourth grader is finally covering this daily this year and appears to have mastery a couple of months into it. The previous years were more iffy. Went through various phases of capitalizing every letter, then capitalizing no letters etc.