Daily Grammar Practice

Comprehensive teacher guides and optional video instruction are provided, though the curriculum requires strong teacher grammar knowledge.

Teacher guides include explanatory chapters, Help Pages, marking guides, and reproducible materials. DGP Academy offers 150 videos per level with daily instruction by the author.

The curriculum requires significant teacher knowledge and direct instruction, with structured daily activities and clear teaching points.

Teaching points are provided for each week, and the authors stress that teachers must know grammar well to teach it well. DGP Academy videos provide daily instruction for all lessons.

The program employs systematic retrieval practice through daily repetition and review of grammatical concepts.

Students complete identical patterns of activities Monday through Friday for 30 weeks, with incremental introduction of new concepts while continually practicing what they have already learned.

The curriculum is primarily skills-focused on grammar mastery rather than building systematic domain knowledge across content areas.

The program is designed to be your primary source of instruction for grammar and method for regular review and practice, focusing on grammatical concepts rather than content knowledge.

Vocabulary development is not explicitly addressed as a primary component of the curriculum.

The review details extensive grammar instruction but makes no mention of vocabulary building activities or word knowledge development.

Limited writing instruction is included, with students writing only one original sentence per week following specific grammatical patterns.

On Friday, students write their own sentence that contains specific parts of speech and is the same type of sentence as the sentence used for the rest of the week's lessons.

The curriculum focuses on individual sentences rather than whole texts, with grades 5-12 using sentences from literary works but not complete books.

Each week students work with one sentence, completing different activities with that sentence each day. Levels 5 through 12 use sentences from literary works in most lessons.

Text complexity increases gradually through the levels, with more sophisticated sentences in upper grades drawn from literature.

Sentences become lengthier and more complex at each level, and advanced second editions for grades 6-12 use more challenging sentences from literature.

No evidence of phonics instruction is provided in the review materials.

The review focuses entirely on grammar instruction with no mention of phonological awareness, decoding, or phonics components.