One Hundred Minutes to Better Basic Skills

Now there's a way for students to practice their grammar skills, enhance their overall grammar proficiency, and have fun at the same time! Grammar Minutes, Gr. 1 provides students with practice in the following key areas of first-grade grammar:

• sentence structure
• capital letters
• punctuation
• common nouns
• proper nouns
• pronouns
• verbs
• adjectives
• noun and verb agreement
• contractions
• compound words
• synonyms
• antonyms
• articles
• and more

Inspired by the highly popular Math Minutes series, this book features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of 10 grammar questions for students to complete within a short time period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own grammar proficiency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, time format, combines with instant feedback, makes this a challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they apply grammar skills to a variety of question formats in key areas of first-grade instruction.