Can anyone recommend me a Grammar Book for teaching kid at home? My kid is just in P1. I want to spend time with her in summer in teaching her basic grammar.
As an experienced teacher,I can give recommendations for grammar books but my experience tells methat teaching grammar to either kids or adults is fruitless.
The way kids learn English, both as a native or 2nd language, is thesame as shown in years of research studies. Unfortunately, that way iscompletely incongruent with the way the HK Education Department setsits English syllabus for the primary and secondary schools curriculum,which is also the way OUP or Longman follows in publishing theirgrammar books.
In other words, the way your kids learn grammar in HK is doomed to failcause both native and 2nd language kids learn grammar in this order:
1. present progressive "-ing"
2/3. preposition "in/on"
4. plural "-s"
5. irregular past tense "had"
6. possessive "'s"
7. copula, uncontractible "This is it"
8. articles "a, the"
9. regular past tense "walked"
10. third person present tense regular "He walks"
11. third person present tense, irregular "He has"
12. auxiliary, uncontractible "I was walking"
13. copula, contractable "I am happy" or "I'm happy"
14. auxiliary, contractible "I am walking" or "I'm walking"
Kids learn English based on the regularity/generality of the iteminstead of the so-called "systematic" structure that we see in grammarbooks - tenses in the active voice/aspect "present, past, future,progressive, perfect, perfect progressive". Among these, only about 5or 6 tenses and aspects are commonly used in daily life among nativespeakers. Future perfect progressive is rare in the active voice, notto mention in the passive.
So if teachers fail in teaching grammar to kids with the locallypublished grammar books/practice exercises, why do you think a mama cando better at home?
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