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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, this thread has totally become FUBAR.  But, to add to the discussion about sentence diagramming, they don't seem to have a separate grammar lesson, but, I will say that DS is a much better writer than I am at that age even though I did learn grammar the old-fashion way.   They seem to focus on critical and creative thinking rather than the mechanics of the writing.  I think the mechanics can come later, but the critical and creative thinking should be encouraged from the get go.  I think at this age, they need to see writing as fun and creating, and I think if they focused too much on the mechanics, writing would become boring pretty quickly.

I will say, though, that I have let my DCs watch School House Rock's "Conjunction Junction What's your Function".  I love School House Rock. That is surely timeless.[/quote]

How old is your kid?

The fifth grade teachers at our school went into panic mode when 3/4 of the entire 5th grade couldn't write a basic paragraph. They reached out to other 5th grade teachers at other schools across the county and to make a long story short, mcps discovered that yet another shortcoming of 2.0 is that they failed to adequately teach writing. So they dropped everything and went back to the old way of teaching (much younger kids) how to write a paragraph---then worked their way up to three paragraphs.

This happened last year to the 2.0 guinea pigs.

So you probably should rely on the mechanics to come later. They didn't for 5th graders last year, and it caused a literal frenzy.

Fwiw, this wasn't a Title I or Focus school. These were upper class mostly white kids...and they couldn't write a basic paragraph in 5th grade.

That's probably why parents freak out about HGCs. I get it now. [/quote]

PP here.  My kid is in 5th.  DS wrote a poem at the beginning of 5th grade that was quite impressive. My sister read it and thought some adult wrote it.  I could never have written such a poem even in HS.  If I did, the grammar would've been perfect, but the poem would've sucked.[/quote]

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