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In an age when the truth and inherent nature of everything is routinely questioned, it should come as no surprise that grammar education has come to be regarded as unnecessary and even pernicious. Teachers advocate integrated approaches in what are essentially programs designed to facilitate language learning by osmosis—students will "pick up" the rules of English by reading and writing on their own much better than when they are subjected to rote memorization of the parts of speech and the drudgery of sentence diagramming.

This view is about 100 years old....and the one that preceded it stretched from roughly the 8th century B.C. in Greece to the early part of the 20th century across the whole Western world. While length of tradition is no argument in itself, the fact that so many great intellectuals were the product of the direct approach to grammar instruction (and the fact that so few of similar ability remain) should count for something. Grammar formed the basis on which the rest of one's education was built—the "grammar stage" of Classical education was just that, a solid grounding in the nature and usage of language intended to facilitate literacy, critical thinking and the ability to form ideas from existing facts.

It's hard to find a good definition of grammar, largely because its importance has been questioned and its content ignored for so long. Currently it's most often described as the rules regulating language, but this is only part of the story. Grammar is the system of usage employed for a language to facilitate and codify meaning. In simpler terms, grammar is rules that do regulate language for the explicit purpose of aiding universal understanding among speakers of that language. If such linguistic governance does not exist, people who ostensibly speak the same language will not understand each other.

A commonly identified problem among those educated in the United States is that they retain a certain form of illiteracy from their earliest years through high school and even college. They can identify and even read words, but they cannot interpret them in any meaningful way and they certainly cannot form complex ideas or thoughts based on what they read. There are (as with anything) a variety of contributing factors, but one of the most basic is the lack of direct grammar education they receive.

To design a bridge one must first be fluent in the laws of physics and mathematics employed in such an undertaking. The same principle applies to language—in order to understand what sentences, paragraphs and books mean, a student must first understand why words are arranged as they are, why punctuation works the way it does, what different kinds of words exist and why they must change form depending on context, even what context itself is. Grammar is that study, and it is not simply an end in itself, it is the foundation for the very thing toward which education aims: comprehension.

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Analytical Grammar High School Reinforcement: Shakespeare Plays
by Robin Finley & Erin Karl
from Analytical Grammar
for 9th-12th grade
in Analytical Grammar (Location: GRA-AG)
$20.00
Claritas Fundamental Grammar Text
by Shannon Carroll Bucko
3rd edition from Claritas Publishing
for 2nd-12th grade
in Claritas (Location: CUR-CLA)
$38.00 (1 in stock)
Claritas Fundamental Grammar Workbook - Cycle 4 Units I & II
by Shannon Carroll Bucko
3rd edition from Claritas Publishing
for 2nd-12th grade
in Claritas (Location: CUR-CLA)
Classical Composition Book I - Student Guide
from Memoria Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Composition (Location: WRI-MPCC)
$21.95
Classical Composition Book I - Teacher Guide
by James A Selby
from Memoria Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Composition (Location: WRI-MPCC)
$29.95 $19.00 (1 in stock)
English 2 - Teacher Edition with CD-ROM
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 2nd grade
in BJU Writing & Grammar (Location: GRA-BJU)
$89.17 $49.00 (1 in stock)
English 3 - Teacher Edition
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 3rd grade
in BJU Writing & Grammar (Location: GRA-BJU)
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English 4 - Teacher Edition
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 4th grade
in BJU Writing & Grammar (Location: GRA-BJU)
$89.17
English 5 - Teacher Edition
by MA Eileen M. Berry
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 5th grade
in BJU Writing & Grammar (Location: GRA-BJU)
$89.17
English 6 - Teacher Edition with Toolkit CD
2nd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 6th grade
in BJU Writing & Grammar (Location: GRA-BJU)
$89.17 $49.00 (3 in stock)
English 7 - Home School Curriculum Lesson Plans
from A Beka Books
for 7th grade
in A Beka Grammar & Writing (Location: GRA-ABK)
$14.50 (1 in stock)
English Lessons Through Literature Level 3
by Kathy Jo DeVore
from Barefoot Ragamuffin Press
for 4th-5th grade
in Writing Instruction (Location: WRI-INS)
$19.00 (1 in stock)
Fix It! Grammar Book 1 - Student Book
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-5th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 1 - Teacher's Manual
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-5th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00 $13.00 (1 in stock)
Fix It! Grammar Book 1 - Teacher/Student Combo
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-5th grade
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$29.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 2 - Student Book
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-5th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 2 - Teacher's Manual
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-5th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00 $13.00 (1 in stock)
Fix It! Grammar Book 2 - Teacher/Student Combo
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-5th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$29.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 3 - Student Book
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 6th-8th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 3 - Teacher's Manual
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 6th-8th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 3 - Teacher/Student Combo
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 6th-8th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$29.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 4 - Student Book
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 6th-8th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 4 - Teacher's Manual
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 6th-8th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 4 - Teacher/Student Combo
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 6th-8th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$29.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 5 - Student Book
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 9th-12th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 5 - Teacher's Manual
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 9th-12th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 5 - Teacher/Student Combo
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 9th-12th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$29.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 6 - Student Book
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 9th-12th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 6 - Teacher's Manual
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 9th-12th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$19.00
Fix It! Grammar Book 6 - Teacher/Student Combo
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 9th-12th grade
in IEW Fix It! Grammar (Location: GRA-IEW)
$29.00
Fix It! Grammar Cards
by Pamela White
4th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd - 12th Grade
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$15.00
God's Gift of Language 4 - Teacher Edition
4th edition from A Beka Books
for 4th grade
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1st edition from A Beka Books
for 5th grade
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God's Gift of Language B - Teacher Edition
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for 5th grade
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
God's Gift of Language C - Answer Key
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for 6th grade
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$21.50 (4 in stock)
Grammar and Composition I - Teacher Key
6th edition from A Beka Books
for 7th grade
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Grammar and Composition II - Supplementary Exercises Teacher Key
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for 8th grade
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
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$24.00 (4 in stock)
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Grammar IV - Teacher Key
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for 10th grade
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Growing with Grammar Level 5 Student Manual (old)
by Tamela Davis
v. 1.0.0 from JacKris Publishing
for 5th grade
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Growing With Grammar Level 8 - Student Manual (old)
by Tamela Davis
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for 8th grade
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$11.00 (1 in stock)
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by Tamela Davis
from JacKris Publishing
for 8th grade
in Miscellaneous Grammar Curriculum (Location: GRA-MISC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Junior Analytical Grammar - Teacher Book
by Robin Finley
from Analytical Grammar
for 4th-5th grade
in Analytical Grammar (old editions) (Location: OLAN-AG)
$12.00
Junior Analytical Grammar - Teaching DVD
by Robin Finley
from Analytical Grammar
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$10.00 (2 in stock)
Junior Analytical Grammar: Mechanics - Teaching DVD
by Robin Finley
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for 4th-5th grade
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$15.00 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Language 1 Seatwork Text - Teacher Key
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for 1st grade
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$23.00 (5 in stock)
Language 3 - Teacher Edition
5th edition from A Beka Books
for 3rd grade
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Language 3 - Teacher Key
5th edition from A Beka Books
for 3rd grade
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$21.00 (3 in stock)
Language Arts 2 - Curriculum Lesson Plans
from A Beka Books
for 2nd grade
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$37.00 (1 in stock)
Language Arts 5 - Curriculum/Lesson Plans
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$24.50 (3 in stock)
Oral Language Exercises
from A Beka Books
for 1st-6th grade
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$8.50 (10 in stock)
Phonics and Language 2 - Teacher Key
1st edition from A Beka Books
for 2nd grade
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$24.00 (3 in stock)
Supplementary Exercises for Workbook VI - Teacher Key
from A Beka Books
for 12th grade
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Thematic Copywork Lessons - Our Beautiful America
by Sandi Queen
from Queen Homeschool Supplies
for 4th-12th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Using Language Well Book 1 - Student Book
by Sonya Shafer
from Simply Charlotte Mason
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by Sonya Shafer
from Simply Charlotte Mason
for 7th-8th grade
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Workbook V - Teacher Key
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for 11th grade
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$11.00 (4 in stock)
Workbook VI - Teacher Key
from A Beka Books
for 12th grade
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$11.00 (4 in stock)
Writer's Toolbox
from Bob Jones University Press
Writing Handbook for 9th-11th grade
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$34.00
Writing & Grammar 10 - Teacher Edition
5th edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 10th grade
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$93.33
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3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
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Writing & Grammar 12 - Teacher Edition with CD
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 12th grade
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$93.33
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4th edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 7th grade
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$93.33
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4th edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 8th grade
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$93.33
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4th edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 9th grade
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