Reproducible 180 daily teaching lessons; 10 minute lessons Materials presented in an easy, step-by-step approach Concepts build upon themselves

These tests will give parents and teachers a way to assess their child's mastery of the concepts. The text is reproducible for student use.

Named to the International Reading Association's 2012 Teachers' Choice book list Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students is a complete and comprehensive guide to all things grammar from Grammar Girl, a.k.a. Mignon Fogarty, whose popular podcasts have been downloaded over twenty million times and whose first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, was a New York Times bestseller. For beginners to more advanced students, this guide covers it all: the parts of speech, sentences, and punctuation are all explained clearly and concisely with the warmth, wit, and accessibility Grammar Girl is known for. Pop quizzes are scattered throughout to reinforce the explanations, as well as Grammar Girl's trademark Quick and Dirty Tips—easy and fun memory tricks to help with those challenging rules. Complete with a writing style chapter and a guide to the different kinds of writing—everything from school papers to letter writing to e-mails—this guide is sure to become the one-stop, essential book on every student's desk.

Based on the prepositional approach to grammar, this text includes extensive grammar concepts, capitalization, punctuation, sentence types, phrases, clauses, gerunds, appositives, and other grammar concepts.