Much has been said here about how grammar is no longer being taught
in our schools. But some research I have been doing suggests that
this may not be true.

As part of my ongoing work on putting language awareness into the
curriculum, I have been studying fourth grade language arts
curriculums that I have been able to find on the Net. And so far,
every curriculum I have found includes grammar.

Here is a typical statement, this one from the Framingham (MA) public schools:

Students will "identify and use correctly adverbs, conjunctions,
prepositions, and interjections."

As in all the curriculums I have read so far, there is no explanation
for why these particular items were chosen for fourth grade.

Curious, no?

Bill
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William J. McCleary
Livonia, NY

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