Standards Based Grammar: Grade 3
What is Standards Based Grammar?
Standards Based Grammar is a daily grammar program that systematically teaches your students every grammar skill required at the third-grade level. The purpose of Standards Based Grammar is to give students the spoken and written rules of the English language in an easy, step-by-step program. It seeks to teach, assess, and build on students' prior knowledge.
Standards Based Grammar doesn’t just ask students to identify grammar errors. They learn grammar rules and apply them immediately in their writing. It also shows the teacher each student’s exact strengths and weaknesses and makes it easy to share that information with parents.
Standards Based Grammar shows your students how to become grammar experts. Not only will they be able to understand each grammar rule, but they will also be able to articulate the logic behind it. Best of all, it’s easy to teach and simple to administer.
Every Grade 3 grammar standard, a full year of daily lessons — $34.
Video Tour of Standards Based Grammar: Grade 3
Tour the Features of Standards Based Grammar
This video tour will show you all the features that make Standards Based Grammar a powerful program.
Part 1 (0:00–4:45)
Standards Based Grammar:
Grade 3 Overview
Part 2 (4:45–24:35)
A deeper dive into the features of Standards Based Grammar: Grade 3
Powerful enough to be your daily grammar program! Affordable enough to use as a supplement!
Whether you've purchased Standards Based Grammar or are just looking, this 40-minute video will show you how to get the most out of your grammar program.
You will see how to structure your grammar lessons. More importantly, you'll be shown how to incorporate these grammar skills into your entire writing program.
Tips and Advice Video
Program Features
Preview of Standards Based Grammar : Grade 3
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Student Worksheets – More than two hundred worksheets provide practice for every standard required for your grade level. Each worksheet comes complete with lesson, examples, and student practice. Simply review the lessons (often, only minutes are needed), and you are ready to teach.
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Journal Prompts – If your students are not applying grammar rules to their writing, do they really understand the concept? These journal extensions give your students immediate practice as they apply each new grammar skill within an actual creative writing setting.
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Assessments – Each unit ends with a test. Use it to measure your students’ progress, then use the results to form groups for reteaching and review.
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Parent Checklists – There are plenty of worksheets to help students meet each grammar standard. Some concepts will be hard for some students, and every teacher knows there comes a point when the class has to move on. So what do we do with those students who are being left behind? As a parent, I would want to know if my child was having a hard time with certain concepts. The parent checklist provided after each test gives the parents a report about their child’s progress on each skill. Impress the parents of your students with detailed knowledge of their child’s achievements, and give them the opportunity to work on skills as the class moves forward to new concepts.
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Student Checklists – Keep track of student progress over the course of the year. The two biggest advantages are: 1) Before state testing, use the student checklist to create review groups. Allow students to practice only the skills they need to prepare for state testing. 2) Give next year’s teacher a precise record of each student’s abilities. Next year’s teacher will see exactly where each student stands.
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Teacher Checklists – Worried about teaching every standard before state testing? This checklist reminds you which standards you’ve taught and which still need to be taught.
Versatility of Standards Based Grammar
As a complete grammar program, Standards Based Grammar’s value is second to none! It’s also affordable enough to use as a supplement to your current program. Once you try a few worksheets, you’ll want to use the rest. The program lets you:
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Use entire units or just use individual worksheets to supplement what you are already doing.
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Use the assessments to measure student growth.
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Use the worksheets to prepare for state testing.
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Use the checklists to keep track of your yearly pacing of grammar.
Other Benefits of Standards Based Grammar
Incredible Value:
Many teachers have gone to teacher supply stores looking for grammar books because they need some worksheets to help their students with a certain skill. They spend $9.95 on a workbook and may use only three or four worksheets from it. Then they do it again for another skill, then another. Over the course of a few years, they’ve spent a small fortune just for a few worksheets that only cover a few skills.
With Standards Based Grammar you get more than TWO HUNDRED worksheets covering over twenty-five standards. You’ll never buy another supplement again.
Easy Lesson Planning:
Most elementary school teachers teach more than thirty lessons a week. You DON’T need another subject that requires lesson planning. With Standards Based Grammar you have hundreds of lesson plans ready to go. Each worksheet has the skill and lesson at the top of the page. Most lessons require just a few minutes of review, and you’re ready to go. The lessons on each page also serve as an excellent review whenever students need a refresher on certain skills.
Improved Test Scores:
Every worksheet in Standards Based Grammar has been tested in the classroom. The worksheets have been written and rewritten for maximum effectiveness. The advantage of Standards Based Grammar is unmistakable. Language scores improve with Standards Based Grammar. Several classrooms surveyed have shown growth in language test scores of more than 12%. Many students are receiving perfect scores in language. Even some Title I students are scoring in the 70th and 80th percentiles.
English Language Learners:
Many English learners pick up just enough English to get by, and teachers can mistake conversational English for full proficiency. Most states require daily English instruction until a student is reclassified as fluent, yet many students stall just below that level because their current English is “good enough.
Standards Based Grammar forces them to acquire a deeper understanding of the English language. Furthermore, Standards Based Grammar helps the teacher keep track of the skills they are learning. NO child sneaks through the year without the teacher being aware of their abilities. Classrooms with predominantly ELL students have also shown dramatic results, with many students reaching fluent English proficiency on state tests.
What About My District's Language Arts Program?
Many district language arts programs are one-size-fits-all programs. They combine reading, writing, grammar, language, and oral language skills into one program. In addition, they try to teach ELL, high-functioning, middle-functioning, and low-functioning students all at once.
Using these programs, grammar is taught side-by-side with each reading unit. What if you don’t teach every story in your district’s reading program? What if you teach a grammar concept using the ONE worksheet they give you, and your students still need more practice? How do you know your students are mastering every grammar skill required on state tests? There is simply too much to monitor with these programs. Standards Based Grammar gives you confidence that every skill is being taught effectively. At the very least, you can use Standards Based Grammar alongside your current language arts program to make sure every skill is covered.
Ordering Information
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and become THE language expert at your school!
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Over 200 worksheets
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9 Assessments
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Over 100 journal prompts
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Teacher Checklists
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Parent Checklists
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Standards Based
Grammar: Grade 3
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Grammar: Grade 3
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Grade 3 student workbooks, minimum 3 copies.
