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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I hear you. Kid is at Whitman. I just hope she learns to write in college. I’m an editor. I do what I can to help, but it’s shocking how remedial her skills are. She’s a reader and loves to write, but I’ve had to teach her when to use a comma. I and me? It’s and its? They’re and their and there? When did schools stop teaching kids how to diagram sentences?[/quote]

My kid (not McMS) never learned to diagram. Shameful. They have no clue what’s going on structurally in a sentence [/quote]

Diagramming sentences started to fall out of favor in the 1980s.[/quote]

I did it in high school in 2001-2005.

Anyway, kids need to learn grammar, regardless of whether it’s through diagramming sentences or some other way.[/quote]

I taught my MCPS kids sentence diagramming in middle school as a way to teach grammar.  Google Grammar revolution .I then often point out paragraphs in the newspaper, etc. that have a mistake and ask them to find it.  They enjoyed finding the mistakes in adults’ work.  I also got them writing tutors (despite their all As).  It worked.  Kid 1 is a great writer/editor in college.  Kid 2 in high school at least has the tools and vocab so that he can understand my critiques.[/quote]

Thank you! Just signed up for Grammar Revolution.[/quote]

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