What new words and phrases can you make with “Get Paid To Sleep?”

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What new words and phrases can you make with “Push Button For Walk Signal?”

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What new words and phrases can you make with “Not A Through Street?”

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What new words and phrases can you make with “Cross Traffic Ahead?”

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What new words and phrases can you make with “Road Closed To Vehicles?”

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What new words and phrases can you make with “Look Out For Traffic?”

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Practice 4.2.3: Fixing Run-On Sentences builds on what your child has already learned about commas to help them notice and fix common run-on sentence configurations.

Practice 3.8.3: Playing the Believing Game 1 is the first half of a big new skill for kids: critical analysis of the content and form of a text. The Believing and Doubting Games ask kids to play pretend and first, imagine that they believe absolutely everything in the text and use that believing brain to analyze what the text is saying and doing.

In Practice 2.3.3: Creating Argument Sentences, we teach kids to build argument sentences that already contain two layers of thought.

See what a typical Greek and Latin roots practice looks like in our curriculum.

Practice 1.3.2: Captions 1 asks kids to apply what they learned in our video lesson on foundational sentence grammar by writing declarative sentences to describe a picture and labeling the subjects, predicates, and verbs of their sentences.

In Chapter 5, we introduce your child to a more complex editing system—a system not usually taught until high school or college, if ever.

What new words and phrases can you make with “No Parking In Red?”

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What new words and phrases can you make with “Road Work Ahead?”

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What new words and phrases can you make with “Please Do Not Hold The Doors?”

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When we teach comma conventions, or any writing convention, we acknowledge that adults don’t always agree on everything.

Take a deep breath because you’re about to walk into sacred kid territory: emotional formatting. As you no doubt know, most kids love emojis, wild colors, varied fonts, bolded words, etc., and they’re not willing to give up these simple joys without a fight.

The big moment has finally arrived! After spending many practices dissecting complex texts, understanding exactly what they say, how they say it, the foundational assumptions, the embedded questions, the special terms, and then all the ways that the authors might be wrong, your child will be asked in Practices 3.10.2-3.10.5 to decide if they think the arguments in the texts are successful. Deciding what you think is no small task because there is no right or wrong here—with some exceptions. Instead, there are only the opinions your child can support with evidence and sound reasoning.

It can be surprisingly difficult to summarize an argument in one sentence, but it’s worth the effort.

The first time that your child plays the Believing and Doubting Games will be Big Brain Leaps.