Grammar Garden · Dedicated Language & Writing Curriculum

Grammar Garden Grade 5

Sentence mastery into style, register, and honest writing

450coursebook pages, four quarters

133Preceptor Guide pages

165assessment & resource pages

Grammar Garden · Grade 5 · Language & writing curriculum

Key facts

Grade: Grade 5 — 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 (450 pages), a yearlong 133-page Preceptor Guide, a 165-page Assessment & Resource Book, and a 6-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 133-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 5

Grammar that grows into 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. 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 structures and the perfect tenses
Rhythm: vary openings, length, and shape
Formal and informal register
Summary, paraphrase, and citing honestly

The published plan

Grade 5 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	Diagnostic review of complete sentences
3	Grammar and usage	Parts of speech by function
4	Sentence foundations	Subjects, predicates, objects, and complements
5	Sentence foundations	Phrases
6	Sentence foundations	Independent and dependent clauses
7	Sentence foundations	Sentence purposes and structures
8	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
9	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
10	Grammar and usage	Verb tense review
11	Grammar and usage	Perfect tenses
12	Grammar and usage	Tense consistency
13	Grammar and usage	Complex agreement
14	Grammar and usage	Pronoun case, agreement, and clarity
15	Grammar and usage	Conjunction, preposition, and interjection functions
16	Grammar and usage	Correlative conjunctions and confused usage
17	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative studio
18	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
19	Grammar and usage	Modifier placement
20	Sentence development	Expansion, reduction, and combination
21	Sentence development	Varied openings, length, and rhythm
22	Sentence foundations	Fragments, run-ons, and comma splices
23	Mechanics	Commas: series, introductory, direct address, tags
24	Mechanics	Dialogue, quotations, and titles
25	Mechanics	Apostrophes and possessive forms
26	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
27	Application	Application task
28	Composition	Paragraph architecture and cohesion
29	Language for purpose	Style, register, and varieties of English
30	Language for purpose	Summary, paraphrase, and source notes
31	Composition	Narrative
32	Composition	Informative/research writing
33	Composition	Opinion/argument with evidence
34	Language for purpose	Revise for purpose, audience, and voice
35	Editing and revision	Edit and publish
36	Capstone	Portfolio capstone

The Grade 5 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

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

Quarter 2 · Weeks 10–18

Student Coursebook

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

Quarter 3 · Weeks 19–27

Student Coursebook

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

Quarter 4 · Weeks 28–36

Student Coursebook

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

Preceptor Guide · yearlong

Complete guide, visible before enrollment

Read all 133 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

165 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 6-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 5 book on this page — the four coursebooks, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — along with the wider curriculum and practice library.

Included with All Access

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