Scholastic Success with Tests: Grammar Workbook Grade 2 (Grades 2)

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Customer Reviews:

make the knowledge stick [Posted on 2004-12-26]
Good writing cannot be achieved overnight. Young kids need to learn and write often to build their skills. Grammar is often left to intuition in school. Taking tests will help to clarify the right way from the wrong ways explicitly. My child used this book for assessment as well as for learning. Very good contents worth every penny we spent. The book is short though; my child finished it in 3 weeks. Looking for similar tests, I found Beestar (www.beestar.org) pretty good, too. My child's writing and test skills are definitely improving with such grammar drills.

Scholastic Books Are TopNotch for Homeschooling. [Posted on 2006-03-03]
I like to use two or three different textbooks per subject. Scholastic wins my approval, as well as Dorling Kindersley, Learning Horizons and School Zone products. We are currently using "Scholastic Success with 1st Grade Workbook; Math, Reading, Writing, Grammar and Maps." I really like their presentation of topics in each workbook. They tell you what is to be learned, give good practice pages, then assess what has been learned after each section. I am homeschooling my first grader and am very pleased with Scholastic's approach to learning. I have previous experience as an elementary school principal and head teacher in a multi-grade school. I plan to use Scholastic books as much as possible.

Often inaccurate [Posted on 2008-07-03]
It's a decent workbook in some respects and helps learning the difference between a statement (with a period) and question (with a question mark), common nouns, plural nouns and irregular verbs. It's only about 60 pages long, so don't expect anything comprehensive. But my biggest complaint is that the directions are incorrect. So it will say, for instance, "look at the underlined word(s)" to determine whether a sentence is correct or incorrect.

And then will include in the answer sheet, words that are not underlined. For instance "will [u]you[/u] see the vet again? is marked as inaccurate by them b/c "will" is not capitalized, but it's not underlined, so how would a child know they are supposed to include that, given they have been told to only look at the underlined words?

I think it's poorly executed and would look for a different workbook.

easy to follow, easy to understand [Posted on 2008-07-13]
Breaks done the art of writing into understandable chunk such as:

-Writing a sentence
-Writing a question
-Writing an exclamatory sentence
-Writing a sentence with a list

My 7 year old could easily understand this book...it broke down the mystery of "writing".

Scholastic Grammar [Posted on 2008-08-28]
Great workbook with colorful pages and activities to keep a child entertained and busy learning.

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