Master Grammar Fundamentals with Sentence Diagramming

Completed by 74 learners

Ages 10-13

Live Group Class

In this eight-week course, students will learn how to diagram and analyze sentences to gain a better understanding of English grammar.

Karyn O'Connor

Average rating:

4.8

Number of reviews:

(249 reviews)

Live video meetings

1x per week, 8 weeks

3-10 learners per class

45 min

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What's included

8 live meetings

6 in-class hours

Homework

1 hour per week. Learners will be sent some sentences to practice diagramming during the week between classes.

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 7

During this class, students will be introduced to parts of speech and sentence diagramming using a systematic approach to language mastery. Sentence diagramming allows learners to better understand, visualize, and analyze sentence structure in a way that will help them make sense of what can seem like a really complicated language. They'll learn about the various parts of speech and practice analyzing and diagramming sentences together as a class. (Some words are tricky and sometimes we'll have to really think and analyze in order to figure out which parts of speech they are within the specific content.) This course allows for plenty of built-in review, as each part of speech is labelled repeatedly every week.

Students will be sent notes on each part of speech, as well as sentences to practice diagramming on their own between classes. We'll review and make any necessary corrections at the beginning of the following class.

Class #1: Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives
Class #2: Pronouns
Class #3: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Class #4: Subject and Action Verb
Class #5: Adverbs
Class #6: Patterns 1, 2 (Direct Objects), and 3 (Indirect Objects)
Class #7: Linking Verbs and Patterns 4 and 5 and Helping Verbs
Class #8: Conjunctions and Compound Situations

Other Details

Supply List

A one-page Word file containing practice sentences will be sent after each class.

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Karyn O'Connor

Joined November, 2019

4.8

249reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

Hello! My name is Karyn O'Connor. I'm a freelance editor and copywriter as well as a professional voice teacher and acting coach. Here on Outschool, I teach group classes and tutor in English Language Arts and French grammar and vocabulary building . . . plus a few other classes on subjects of personal interest to me.

I was born and raised in Canada, where I was educated bilingually (English and French) all the way through university. I earned an Honours double Major BA in Psychology and French Studies from a bilingual university (York University/Université York) in Toronto. In case you're wondering: nearly all my teachers and professors were from France, so my accent is more French than Québécois. 

I have a Master's in Publishing degree, I'm a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, and I'm an American Writers & Artists, Inc. trained copywriter with professional freelance experience in copywriting and editing website content, sales copy, and nonfiction and fiction book manuscripts. in addition to owning Karyn O'Connor Voice & Acting Studios, I own an editing and copywriting business - Creative Copy & Editing - which is based in the United States. My clients consist of businesses, individual brands, and publishing houses.

As a former home schooling mother of four children for eight years, I've taught a wide variety of subjects to my own children, as well as to middle-school and high-school students at a large homeschool co-op. I've been teaching on Outschool for five years, and I hope to help support your learner's academic needs. My passion for language and writing inspires my small group classes and private tutoring in English Language Arts (grammar, spelling, literary analysis, writing, reading, etc.). I also teach a Story Time class in which I read my favorite children's books to young learners. I'll be adding my own children's fiction book to my library soon!

I'm really looking forward to getting to know you and your student and to helping him/her/them along his/her/their path to learning!

Best,

Karyn