Edith:

I have tried both Reed-Kellogg diagrams and tree diagrams in the 
English Composition classes I am teaching and I found out that the 
students find tree diagrams more intuitive and easier to understand 
than Reed-Kellogg diagrams. Have you had a chance to compare the two 
types of diagrams in classroom applications? 

As a curiosity, the students who had learned the tree diagrams with 
me were able to remember the tree diagramming a semester later during 
a grammar course taken with another instructor. As I don't believe 
that their retention was due to my extraordinary teaching skills, the 
only conclusion I can draw is that the students understood so well 
the tree diagram approach that they had no difficulty remembering it.

Eduard 
 


On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Edith Wollin wrote...

>Beth Rapp Brown's position on diagramming is certainly held by many
>people, and I would certainly never use it as the only pedagogical
>method for teaching grammar. However, I have found that the 
traditional
>Reed and Kellogg diagrams (with some updating to fit more current
>understandings of sentence syntax) help visual learners a great deal 
in
>understanding the relationships amongst words in a sentence. I have
>combined diagramming with sentence combining, writing one's own
>sentences, using syntactic structures in context, etc. and have 
found it
>very useful for student learning.
>
>Edith Wollin=20

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