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Practice Makes Perfect

by Gary Robert Muschla

Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of grammar and vocabularyUnderstanding grammar is essential for your child to speak and write with competence and clarity. Practice Makes Exploring Grammar gives your child bite-sized explanations of grammar and vocabulary, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the grammar skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book.This book is appropriate for a 6th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 7th or 8th grader.Your student will learn how types of sentencesUnderstand sentence structureIdentify parts of speechUse punctuation and capitalization togetherFind her or his own grammar mistakesTopics Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, Punctuation and Capitalization, Usage and Proofreading

Paperback

First published October 27, 2010

About the author

Gary Robert Muschla has been a teacher and author of numerous resource books for teachers, parents, and students, some of which he coauthored with his wife and daughter. He also writes historical and contemporary romances.