IEW is an acronym for Institute for Excellence in Writing. They have products for all things writing from full on courses, including teacher training to writing supplemental books. We have used a few IEW products before and we were so excited to be able to review Fix It! Grammar: The Nose Tree [Book 1] Teacher Manual ($19) and Fix It! Grammar: The Nose Tree [Book 1] Student Book ($15). This program is recommended for grades 3 and up.
The Teacher Manual has all 33 weeks worth of lessons, and a very organized scope and sequence with what will be learned each week as well as each day’s vocabulary words. The manual is set up to look just like a condensed version of the student manual with notes along the margins and the corrected sentences.
The Student Manual is set up very simply. Each week there is a Learn It Section and a Fix It Section. Then on the adjacent page is 4 sentences (one for each day) that throughout the book make up a story.
The lessons are to be done 4 days a week. In the Learn It section will be the grammar rule you will be learning about and a quick explanation of when to use it. Then the Fix It section which tells you to read each sentence (one a day). Look up and write the vocabulary words. Next it tells you what to do daily, as in the first day you will go over the first sentence and fix it with the students. Days 2-4 the students will mark the remaining sentences on their own. The abbreviations being used for the week are at the top of each weeks pages to make a quick and easy reference.
Then finally at the end of the week the students will rewrite the entire passage (all 4 sentences) into a separate notebook.
In the back of the student book is flashcards that you can cut out and use for review each week.
There are 6 books in the Fix It! Grammar series.
The reason why I chose to start with the very beginning level is because I could use it with my 3 oldest kids. My 4th grader has only had very basic grammar training. My 8th grader has had some grammar training along with a writing curriculum, but nothing that focused solely on grammar. She is also an avid reader. My 10th grader has done 2 grammar curriculums. I was still able to include all of them in this. We were able to do it daily as a family. While some of it was easy for my older two, I was glad for them to get the review.
It literally only took us 10-15 minutes a day 4 days a week to get through this. My kids were so shocked at how little time it took that they were not always ready to stop. I did end up letting the older two do one whole week at a time and move on with out my 4th grader as she wasn’t ready for that.
I do recommend this grammar as it is simple while being effective on both the teacher and the student.
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