Reviews for ESL Smart!: Ready-to-Use Life Skills and Academic Activities for Grades K-8

The average rating for ESL Smart!: Ready-to-Use Life Skills and Academic Activities for Grades K-8 based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-04-10 00:00:00 Max Prez American schools are in so much trouble. The NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) is to English teachers what the American Medical Association is to doctors, and this is their official stance on the teaching of traditional English grammar: In view of the widespread agreement of research studies based upon many types of students and teachers the conclusion can be stated in strong and unqualified terms: the teaching of formal grammar has a negligible or, because it usually displaces some instruction and practice in composition, even a harmful effect on the improvement of writing. This book, on the other hand, champions traditional grammar. Anyone with a brain stem knows that to improve communication skills, one must have a good grounding in not only the parts of speech, but how these parts function together. This book gives a historical overview of how the teaching of traditional grammar has either been embraced or dissed over the centuries. Just as Michelle Malkin has exposed "fuzzy math" for dumbing down our kids, David Mulroy has done likewise in exposing speculative grammar and progressive education. Anyone who teaches grammar will find value in this book. This is pro classical trivium. It emphasizes learning grammar rules and using sentence diagrams. I found it highly readable and recommend it to home educators.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-26 00:00:00 Aaron P Levi I love the history of education, so this book was a perfect fit for me. I now better understand the history of grammar teaching from the ancients to the present. I also gained a firmer understanding of why grammar is important, and why specifically the teaching of grammar has a positive, rather than a negative effect on students.