“Doing grammar early” doesn’t mean hours of workbook time. In first and second grade, students simply cannot do very much handwriting work; hand muscles take time and slow, steady exercise to develop. Actual writing assignments will use up most of the student’s writing energy. So grammar exercises should be done orally—either using an oral language text or adapting a traditional workbook-centered grammar program to oral use. (Read through the lesson with the student, have him repeat definitions after you until he has them memorized, and then do exercises by asking him to tell you the answers
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