Is there a grammar like Life of Fred?

I am using Easy Grammar, and I hate it. It is driving me crazy, and not working well for my kids. I think because I don't really want to spend that much time on grammar, and it is taking a long time, and a ton of worksheets.

I would love something that was like LOF just a book we could read and talk about. Just something different.

I would be using it with my 6yo dd and 8 yo ds, doing 2nd and 3rd grade.
Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

Have you checked out any Brian P. Cleary books at the library? Those are great! They're just stories, but they're so cool for the younger level! He has a website with games, too. I like the books, though.

 

Scolastics has good grammar books too

 

I have never heard of Brian P cleary before. But our Library seems to be lacking in the books I want to check out. : (

Which Scholastics books? If I just google it will they come up?

 

I found these and thought they were funny, but not really PG enough to post in my school room. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

 

scholastics.com look for grade level and grammar, My kids liked color and they had that, we had thick books that came with CD to play practice games on computer that went with the lessons.

 

Caught'ya Grammar with a Giggle are way fun. I also agree with Brian P Cleary and also Scholastic has a series about grammar.. ummm Grammar Tales I think it's called that are cute and fun to read.

 

The Humpties had a real fun approach to teaching grammar. There are different egg-shaped personalities for each part of speech, i.e. Father Noun and Mother Verb. My kids really enjoyed them.

 

I am going to have to spend some time with my friend google and check those all out. Thank you! I knew you would have some great ideas.

 

OHHHHHHH... have you found Grammar Land yet???? If you google grammar land worksheets, someone made free worksheets to go with it on their blog.

 

Grammer Tales. I found it at Rainbow Resources.

 

Mad Libs and making sure they spoke correctly pretty much covered it until they were older. We started Easy Grammar in 6th grade and they've done fine. Their foreign language requires a good bit of understanding of English grammar too and that's been fine as well.

 

I forgot that our Latin covers some grammar too. I think with a couple of these books, Latin, and just talking about it will do wonders for us.

 

This stuff looks great! I think I'm going to use it to supplement our current grammar.