Each week in this ongoing class, I will use engaging slides and activities to help students learn grammar skills necessary for reading and writing. Each class will focus on one aspect of grammar to reach mastery by the end of class. 

Each class will consist of an engagement activity, a mini-lesson on the topic of the week, practice using the week’s topic, a short game to practice the grammar skill, and an interactive activity for students to have a hands-on opportunity to practice. Activities may include: editing a paragraph, writing a paragraph, dissecting a sentence, worksheets, and more. 

The in-class worksheet practice will occur during the last 3-5 minutes of class. If you do not have access to a printer, your student can use a plain piece of paper instead.

Each week, an optional homework assignment will be given. Students can submit homework via comment or private message for feedback.

Students are welcome to join at any point in the year! 

Subject of the week:
August 12: comparative and superlative adverbs and adjectives
August 19: correlative conjunctions 
August 26: commas with compound and complex sentences
September 2: declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory sentences
September 9: phrases or clauses
September 16: plurals of compound nouns
September 23: Complete, fragment, and run-on sentences
September 30: Subject vs. object pronouns including I vs. me
October 7: transitive & intransitive verbs
October 14: identify and order adjectives
October 21: appositive and appositive phrases
October 28: relative pronouns: who & whom
November 4: progressive verb tenses
November 11: compound subjects and compound predicates
November 18: vague pronoun references
November 25: Infinitives & infinitive phrases
December 2: Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
December 9: Subject verb agreement
December 16: Commas with direct address, introductory words, interjections, interrupters
December 23: Reflexive or intensive pronouns
December 30:  Linking verbs, predicate nouns, & predicate adjectives
2025
January 6: good, better, best & well, better, best
January 13: Verb mood
January 20: Perfect verb tenses
January 27: Combining sentences using relative clauses
February 3: Subordinating conjunctions 
February 10: Indefinite pronoun verb agreement
February 17: Prepositional phrases
February 24: Personal and reflexive pronouns
March 3: Direct vs. indirect objects
March 10: Gerunds
March 17: Capitalization in sentences and titles
March 24: Misplaced and dangling modifiers
March 31: Semicolons, colons, & commas in lists and clauses
April 7: Coordinating conjunctions
April 14: Hyphens
April 21: Correct verb with compound subjects
April 28: Commas with restrictive and nonrestrictive elements
May 5: Formatting dialogue
May 12: Compound and joint possessive nouns
May 19: Participles
May 26: Relative pronouns: whose, which, & that
June 2: Identify the subject and verb of sentences
June 9: Identify dependent and independent clauses
June 16: pronoun and antecedent agreement
June 23: Singular and plural possessive nouns
June 30: past, present, and future tense verbs 
July 7: dashes and ellipsis 


(more dates to be added)


*I also offer this class as a FLEX (no live meetings) class.*
Link to the FLEX class: 
Part 1: https://outschool.com/classes/middle-school-comprehensive-grammar-curriculum-6-7-8-grade-part-1-of-2-flex-2qzAjxhN#usnRIxVWCo
Part 2: https://outschool.com/classes/middle-school-comprehensive-grammar-curriculum-6-7-8-grade-part-2-of-2-flex-NqSql1UK#usnRIxVWCo

*I also offer this class at a slightly lower level for 5th & 6th grade students.*
https://outschool.com/classes/fifth-sixth-grade-grammar-comprehensive-grammar-curriculum-BuWvxWQ6#usnRIxVWCo