Parents of 5th and 6th graders ES students - FCPS - can you please ask your child what are the

[Anonymous]

8 parts of speech or even what an adjective is?

Something in another thread came up and I am curious if not knowing that by the end of 4th grade is a student problem, a school problem or a county wide problem.

If you please could answer and age/grade of your child. I would prefer to get answers only from students who go to public schools and not have extracurricular help (tutors, AoPS classes in LA, CTY, etc). AAP students answers are appreciated as well.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8 parts of speech or even what an adjective is?

Something in another thread came up and I am curious if not knowing that by the end of 4th grade is a student problem, a school problem or a county wide problem.

If you please could answer and age/grade of your child. I would prefer to get answers only from students who go to public schools and not have extracurricular help (tutors, AoPS classes in LA, CTY, etc). AAP students answers are appreciated as well.

Thanks!

If the kid doesn’t know it at that age it’s their fault. Stop making everything political.

[Anonymous]

Why does a child need to know these things? If my child is a strong writer, do they have to know this? Please explain.

[Anonymous]

I'm a pretty successful adult and I would have to google the 8 parts of speech. I don't have a job that would require that at all. I bet there are very few jobs that would require that. Why is that something you are worried about? I get wanting to make sure my kid can write well, but I would argue you can learn to write well without knowing exactly what each part is called.

[Anonymous]

My 3rd grader didn't know what a noun or verb was this spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 parts of speech or even what an adjective is?

Something in another thread came up and I am curious if not knowing that by the end of 4th grade is a student problem, a school problem or a county wide problem.

If you please could answer and age/grade of your child. I would prefer to get answers only from students who go to public schools and not have extracurricular help (tutors, AoPS classes in LA, CTY, etc). AAP students answers are appreciated as well.

Thanks!

If the kid doesn’t know it at that age it’s their fault. Stop making everything political.

Now knowing grammar is political? How?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a pretty successful adult and I would have to google the 8 parts of speech. I don't have a job that would require that at all. I bet there are very few jobs that would require that. Why is that something you are worried about? I get wanting to make sure my kid can write well, but I would argue you can learn to write well without knowing exactly what each part is called.

Don't you think learning grammar (and that is pretty basic grammar) helps you to write well/better? I get that you don't know now, but I bet at one point in your life you learned it and incorporated that knowledge into your writing.

[Anonymous]

I just asked my rising 6th grader and he knew. He's in AAP and they covered it last year. English isn't his first language but he is fluent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a pretty successful adult and I would have to google the 8 parts of speech. I don't have a job that would require that at all. I bet there are very few jobs that would require that. Why is that something you are worried about? I get wanting to make sure my kid can write well, but I would argue you can learn to write well without knowing exactly what each part is called.

Don't you think learning grammar (and that is pretty basic grammar) helps you to write well/better? I get that you don't know now, but I bet at one point in your life you learned it and incorporated that knowledge into your writing.

My experience as a high school teacher is that the kids coming from environments that emphasize grammar in elementary are the reluctant writers. They often have beautiful handwriting, but their sentences are short, because they're afraid to take a risk on words that they can't spell or sentence structures they don't remember how to use. The kids coming from public are much more fluent, their writing is better organized, and they have better voice. Then in middle school, they learn the parts of speech easily in the first year of foreign language, and editing becomes a focus in English. They enter high school as better writers.

[Anonymous]

My public school 5th grader doesn’t know.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s covered in 5th grade in detail. I’ve taught it at home.

[Anonymous]

What the f are the 8 parts of speech? I have a phd and write research papers for living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 3rd grader didn't know what a noun or verb was this spring.

FYI- they call them nouns and predicates now just to complicate things. I prefer verb since it goes with adverb. And since I have a dysgraphic child I can agree that most schools have atrocious reading and writing instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does a child need to know these things? If my child is a strong writer, do they have to know this? Please explain.

NP.
I don’t think a child or even most adults need to know the parts of speech (are there really 8?). If a person uses them correctly why the need to name them?

[Anonymous]

My 6th grader doesn’t know. It’s now an issue because he has to learn a foreign language and it’s harder to explain sentence structure without that knowledge.