Grammar Garden · Dedicated Language & Writing Curriculum

Grammar Garden 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.

344coursebook pages, four quarters

102Preceptor Guide pages

138assessment & resource pages

Grammar Garden · Grade 1 · Language & writing curriculum

Key facts

Grade: Grade 1 — one of six grade levels in the K–5 sequence.
Format: Print-at-home PDFs. The Preceptor Guide is read page by page in the browser.
What is included: Four quarterly Student Coursebooks (344 pages), a yearlong 102-page Preceptor Guide, a 138-page Assessment & Resource Book, and a 5-page Student Reference Booklet.
The week: Five days: Learn & Notice · Practice Together · Build Sentences · Edit & Revise · Write & Show — combinable to four.
Practice online: The Grammar Garden Game is the browser practice companion — practice between lessons, never the lesson.
Price: Included in All Access — $39/month for every child in the household, cancel anytime.
Open to everyone: 8 zoomable coursebook pages, the complete 102-page Preceptor Guide, and the full 36-week scope below.

Real pages from inside the coursebooks

See the language work your child will actually do

These pages were selected from across all four quarters to show instruction, sentence building, editing, and composition — not covers, contents pages, or empty writing lines.

Inside Grade 1

Grammar that grows into writing

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. Skills deliberately return after they are taught — applied again in sentence work, editing, and composition — so grammar becomes usable written language rather than a list of terms.

Sentence or not a sentence
Nouns, verbs, and adjectives in real sentences
Verbs that tell about now and before
Join ideas and write small stories

The published plan

Grade 1 scope and sequence, all 36 weeks

Generated from the curriculum’s own skill registry — the same source the books are built from — so this table cannot drift from what the coursebooks teach. Studio, benchmark, and capstone weeks are the program’s built-in review and assessment rhythm.

Week	Strand	Focus
1	Diagnostic	Orientation, baseline writing sample, and placement diagnostic
2	Sentence foundations	Sentence or not a sentence
3	Sentence foundations	Who-or-what and tells-about-it
4	Grammar and usage	Common nouns
5	Grammar and usage	Proper nouns and capitals
6	Grammar and usage	Singular and plural nouns
7	Grammar and usage	Possessive nouns
8	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
9	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
10	Grammar and usage	Action verbs
11	Grammar and usage	Present and past meaning
12	Grammar and usage	Common irregular verbs (be, have, do)
13	Grammar and usage	Subject-verb agreement
14	Grammar and usage	Personal and possessive pronouns
15	Grammar and usage	Adjectives
16	Grammar and usage	Articles and determiners
17	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative studio
18	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
19	Sentence foundations	Sentence purposes and end marks
20	Grammar and usage	Joining words: and, but, or
21	Grammar and usage	Frequently used prepositions
22	Sentence development	Expand with who, what, where, and when
23	Mechanics	Commas in dates and lists
24	Mechanics	Apostrophes in contractions
25	Mechanics	Capitals for days, months, and titles with a name
26	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
27	Application	Application task
28	Sentence foundations	Fragments
29	Sentence foundations	Run-together sentences
30	Sentence development	Combine related ideas
31	Composition	Order a short paragraph
32	Composition	Narrative
33	Composition	Informative writing
34	Composition	Opinion with a reason
35	Editing and revision	Revise, edit, and publish
36	Capstone	Portfolio capstone

The Grade 1 package

All seven books, shown exactly

Four quarterly Student Coursebooks, the yearlong Preceptor Guide, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — every book in the grade package, with its real page count. The book files’ own cover pages carry the series’ cover title, Strong Sentences: Grammar, Writing & Composition, under the Faith Readers imprint.

Quarter 1 · Weeks 1–9

Student Coursebook

83 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 2 · Weeks 10–18

Student Coursebook

83 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 3 · Weeks 19–27

Student Coursebook

86 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 4 · Weeks 28–36

Student Coursebook

92 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Preceptor Guide · yearlong

Complete guide, visible before enrollment

Read all 102 pages online — the weekly rhythm, scripting, and answers in context. The teacher PDF is not publicly mounted and has no download action.

Assessment & Resource Book

Diagnostics, benchmarks, reteach cards

138 pages: the entry diagnostic, quarterly benchmarks with scoring, reteach cards for every skill, and anchor charts.

Student Reference Booklet

The rules in one durable place

A 5-page booklet of the grade’s rules and models — printed once, kept beside the child all year.

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All Access includes every Grade 1 book on this page — the four coursebooks, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — along with the wider curriculum and practice library.

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