GRAMMAR’S GREAT Language Structure – Class 8 – Main Lesson The Class 8 students had settled down at last in this, the first day of their new Language main lesson. There was a mood of ennui as the teacher toyed with a piece of chalk before announcing the subject. “Grammar!” she said; 25 faces pales […]
BLOCK: ALL GRADES: Grammar
Word Circus: The 12 Figures of Speech
ONE BY ONE 12 Figures of Speech – Class 7 – Main Lesson One by one they came, From a pre-cast die On a distant sky…dum, dum, dum…? The trapeze artist caught himself humming that song again as he supervised the roustabouts erecting his rigging. High Flyer, as was his show name, was going to […]
Grammatike-Grammatikos: Grammar Rules
GRAMMAR RULES – OKAY? 60 Grammar Rules – Class 6 – Main Lesson Grammatike: Well, another lucky Class 6 is to be initiated into our Mysteries, eh Brother? Grammatikos: Yes, at least one schooling system, the Steiner, believes that it is valuable for the young to be taught the foundations – the very skeleton – […]
Grammatike-Grammatikos: Language Structure and Meaning
12-ROOM MANSION OF THE WORD Language Structure and Meaning – Class 5 – Main Lesson I’m the local school inspector – the morning was normal enough; even the note o my desk, instructing me to go out to a small school I’d never visited before to have a look at the grammar program they …Grammar?! […]
Logios: Spirit of the Word: Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech – Class 4 – Main Lesson (can also be used for upper grades) “…and so the conclusion reached by the working party (and what a party!) is that grammar, being so miserably received by primary school pupils, and not found to be of much use in the real world, is to be […]
Logios: Spirit of the Word: Spelling
3rd Grade Spelling (and other grades) I’ve always regarded myself as a good speller – even in primary school. How impressed I was then, when proudly showing our family doctor a composition I’d written, he corrected ‘interdigestion’ to indigestion. I suppose he should have known that one, being a doctor and all! However there was […]