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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but not in isolation, like "OK now we're going to do grammar. Get out your grammar books."  It's much more integrated into the writing program. And for most kids, they are just learning the lingo for the grammar they already know through modeling and reading and then stretching it to more sophisticated forms of language use. In other words, it may come naturally, but they still need to know how to label the parts of speech and sentences, etc. There may be more targeted grammar work for students who need it, not sure, but I'd expect so. It is definitely being taught because a summer camp teacher commented that she'd never met a 10-year-old who could discuss language and writing the way mine does -- and [b]I didn't teach that. I credit the teachers[/b].[/quote]

My son is very good at grammar (for his age) uses things like "my sister and I" (not my sister and me) and knows the difference between their, they're and there or to, too and two.  We definitely didn't teach him those things specifically.  He's only 4, so I'm pretty sure his teachers didn't either.  Sometimes kids just pick it up from those around them or from reading.  Your kid may have learned it from his teachers, or he may be due credit for working it out himself and being interested in language.[/quote]

Well "my sister and me" is correct sometimes. [/quote]

Yup. And to know when "I" is correct and when "me" is correct, PP's 4 yo would need a grammatically based lesson in the difference between subject and object. It's the sort of thing many, many highly educated adults do not know.[/quote]

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