Four quarterly coursebooks
Consumable Student Coursebooks, one per quarter, carrying the five-day weekly rhythm from Learn & Notice to Write & Show.
Grammar Garden · Dedicated Language & Writing Curriculum · K–5
Grammar Garden
Grammar that grows into writing
A complete K–5 language and writing curriculum built for children who learn best by using what they learn. Grammar Garden grows from sentence sense and grammar into editing, revision, and real composition through guided practice, cumulative review, and repeated application — so grammar becomes usable written language rather than a list of terms to memorize.
6grade levels
42books
4,041sample pages
K–5language & writing
Grammar Garden · Language & writing curriculum
Key facts
- Grade range
- Kindergarten through Grade 5 — six grade levels, 42 books, 4,041 pages.
- Per grade
- Four quarterly Student Coursebooks, a yearlong Preceptor Guide, an Assessment & Resource Book, and a durable Student Reference Booklet.
- The week
- Five days — Learn & Notice · Practice Together · Build Sentences · Edit & Revise · Write & Show — combinable to four.
- Format
- Print-first PDFs you print at home. Preceptor Guides read page by page in the browser; the Grammar Garden Game offers optional practice between lessons.
- Scripture
- Notice-the-Word moments quote the New King James Version exactly, and copywork never rewrites a verse.
- Price
- Included in All Access — $39/month for every child in the household, cancel anytime.
- Open to everyone
- 8 zoomable coursebook pages per grade, every complete Preceptor Guide, and each grade’s full 36-week scope and sequence.
Dedicated language & writing curriculum · Who it is for
Is Grammar Garden the right language program?
Grammar Garden is the dedicated K–5 language and writing pathway. The reading curriculum carries language arts within it; Grammar Garden takes the writing side further and deeper, and the two run naturally side by side.
Choose it when
- Your child needs grammar to become concrete and usable rather than a list of terms to memorize — taught through examples, guided practice, sentence building, editing, and visible progression into independent writing.
- You want writing taught as a sequence — sentence sense into grammar into editing, revision, and real composition — with earlier skills deliberately returning so they stick.
- You want the teaching support visible first: every grade’s complete Preceptor Guide reads online before you pay anything.
More Faith Schooling paths
- You want integrated language arts inside the reading lessons and no separate language block — Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency already carries that within the core reading curriculum.
- You only want extra grammar practice sheets beside a program you already own — the Grammar & Writing practice library.
Works alongside
- Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — the core reading curriculum it runs beside
- Grammar Garden Game — the browser practice companion — practice, never the lesson
- Grammar & Writing practice library — printable practice by grade and skill
- Learning Cursive — the handwriting companion
What you need to teach it
- Grade range
- Kindergarten through Grade 5 — Kindergarten is oral, shared, and tactile; formal parsing begins gradually in Grade 1.
- Who teaches
- You do, from a yearlong Preceptor Guide per grade — readable in full, online, before you join.
- Time a day
- One focused language block; the five-day week is designed to combine to four when your schedule needs it.
- Format
- Print-at-home PDFs. No required video, no required screen; the game is optional practice.
- What is included
- Per grade: four quarterly Student Coursebooks, the yearlong Preceptor Guide, an Assessment & Resource Book (entry diagnostic, quarterly benchmarks, reteach cards, anchor charts), and a Student Reference Booklet.
- How it checks
- An entry diagnostic finds the starting line; quarterly benchmarks with scoring guidance and per-skill reteach cards keep advancement honest.
- What you supply
- Paper, a printer, and a pencil.
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Questions parents ask
- How is Grammar Garden different from the language arts in the reading curriculum?
- Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency is the core reading curriculum with integrated language arts — grammar and writing carried inside the reading week. Grammar Garden is the dedicated language and writing curriculum: a full weekly block where grammar, sentence construction, mechanics, editing, revision, and composition are the subject itself, each feeding the next. Families use either alone or the two together.
- Is this the same as the Grammar Garden game?
- No. Grammar Garden is the print curriculum — six grade levels and 42 books. The Grammar Garden Game at /play-grammar/ is the browser practice companion: short, calm practice between lessons. The game is never the lesson.
- What does "grammar that grows into writing" mean in practice?
- Every week ends in application: the five-day rhythm runs Learn & Notice, Practice Together, Build Sentences, Edit & Revise, and Write & Show. A skill taught on Monday is used in sentence building, editing, and composition by Friday, and deliberately returns in later weeks — so grammar becomes usable written language rather than a list of definitions.
- Who is Grammar Garden best for?
- The child who needs grammar to become concrete and usable rather than a list of terms to memorize — especially learners who respond well to examples, guided practice, repeated return to earlier skills, sentence building, editing, and visible progression into independent writing. That is a description of how it teaches, not a diagnosis of any child.
- Why do the quarterly book covers say "Strong Sentences"?
- Strong Sentences: Grammar, Writing & Composition is the series' cover title under the Faith Readers imprint — the same books, carrying the Grammar Garden program inside. The pages inside, the guides, and this site all name the program Grammar Garden: Language & Writing.
A transparent curriculum presentation
See the books, the plan, and the exact grade package
Every grade shows its real covers, its full 36-week scope and sequence generated from the curriculum’s own skill registry, the complete Preceptor Guide readable online, and substantial sample pages chosen to show real teaching.
Visible teaching support
The yearlong Preceptor Guide for every grade reads online, page by page, before enrollment — scripting, answers in context, and pacing.
Honest assessment
An entry diagnostic, quarterly benchmarks with scoring guidance, per-skill reteach cards, and anchor charts — in a dedicated Assessment & Resource Book.
Cumulative by design
Taught skills deliberately return — in review, in editing passages, in composition — because a rule used three weeks later is the only rule truly learned.
Kindergarten through Grade 5
Choose a grade to inspect the actual work
Every grade page provides the covers, the skills, the complete component list, the full 36-week scope, and eight hand-picked coursebook previews.
Kindergarten
Oral sentence sense, first capitals and end marks, and first written ideas
Kindergarten is oral, shared, and tactile: children learn to tell a whole idea from a piece, meet capitals, spaces, and end marks, and move from drawing and telling into their first written sentences.
312 coursebook pages107-page Preceptor Guide148-page assessment book
Grade 1
Whole sentences, first grammar, and joined ideas
Formal work begins gently: sentence or not a sentence, nouns and verbs and adjectives met inside real sentences, verbs that tell about now and before, and ideas joined into small true stories.
344 coursebook pages102-page Preceptor Guide138-page assessment book
Grade 2
Subjects and predicates, verb discipline, and precise words
Sentences get anatomy — subjects and predicates underlined and built — verbs learn to stay in one time, prepositional phrases arrive with their commas, and writing turns toward exact nouns, vivid verbs, and first full paragraphs.
444 coursebook pages102-page Preceptor Guide137-page assessment book
Grade 3
From sentence review to clauses, commas, and real revision
Pronouns and their antecedents, compound and complex sentences with the commas they demand, dialogue punctuated properly, and paragraphs that hold together — then revision taught as its own skill, not a vague instruction.
440 coursebook pages116-page Preceptor Guide150-page assessment book
Grade 4
Clauses, sentence variety, and paragraphs that hold together
The clause becomes the working unit: phrase versus clause, simple to compound to complex, fragments and run-ons repaired on sight — then objects and complements, the progressive tenses, well-placed modifiers, and writing with transitions and brief source use.
436 coursebook pages127-page Preceptor Guide156-page assessment book
Grade 5
Sentence mastery into style, register, and honest writing
The grammar matures into style: perfect tenses measured against a second moment, sentence rhythm varied on purpose, formal and informal register chosen for the room, and summary, paraphrase, and honest source use taught before middle school asks for them.
450 coursebook pages133-page Preceptor Guide165-page assessment book
Faith Schooling All Access
One membership for the books and the wider library
Inspect every grade, read the complete Preceptor Guides, and preview the actual work. All Access opens every coursebook, assessment book, and reference booklet here — alongside the reading and math curricula and the practice library.