The kids and I were given the chance to review a new online Grammar program from GrammarPlanet. Today, I get to share with your our review of this grammar program.
What is GrammarPlanet?
GrammarPlanet is an online, comprehensive grammar program for students of all ages. The program is geared for students ages 10 and up, but you know your child so you can be the judge. I will say that the student does need to have a strong understanding of grammar to work through this program. If they don't, they may find the program a little frustrating. Students will learn grammar, punctuation, and the proper usage of the English language. Whether the student needs to learn what a noun is or just have a refresher course about how to use quotation marks, GrammarPlanet can help. This fun, fast, and free grammar program can help any student master the ins and outs of the English language, which all know can be tricky.
The course is currently broken up into 13 units. More lessons are being added weekly. Each unit will cover an important grammar topic. Nouns, verbs, conjunctions, clauses, punctuation, and agreement are just a few. They even offer review units after after a few lessons. The lessons do need to be completed in order, no jumping around.
GrammarPlanet is free, but you can purchase a subscription so that you don't have to worry about ads that pop up. For this review, we received subscription to the ad-free version. The lifetime, ads-free subscription is $39.
So How Does GrammarPlanet Work?
Each student logs into their own account. They start at the beginning and work their way through the units. So for example, Unit 1 is about Nouns.
The lessons contain a teacher led video, a note sheet to print out (this is highly encouraged), and exercises to complete. Once the exercises are completed, the student will be given a test to complete.
So once Therese logged in, she printed out the PDF note page. I had her store the note page in her English binder for future reference.
She then started each lesson by watching the video. The videos for the lessons vary in length. Most are few minutes to about 10 minutes. The longer videos are usually the lesson that are teaching a more difficult concept. After the video, she completed a few activities.
The nice thing about GramamrPlanet is that it's a learning program. So, the amount of problems given will vary for each child. Don't worry though, if your child knows their stuff, the program will move them more quickly towards the test. If you child is struggling a little, the program will work more slowly and allow them to master the concept before testing them.
What did we think of GrammarPlanet?
The set up process was fairly easy. It took me a week to be able to log in and set up the account because of our horrible internet. Once our month reset, things were great. I was able to set up an account for both Michael and Therese after I set up a teacher's account for myself. The teacher's account is a great way to keep track of the work they are doing. GrammarPlanet even sends updates to you with the students progress or if they haven't logged in for awhile. This leads me to my next point.
This was a difficult review for us. We had a very hard time with logging in. At first, I thought it was because of our internet, but other members had issues with the program too. I do know the company did a fantastic job helping them out and trying to get things corrected. For us however, our internet was the main issue. Each month, we only get so much download allowance. Well, the last 2 months have not been good. We've used up our "unlimited allowance" and had our speeds drop considerably. For some reason, the GrammarPlanet site was greatly affected. I would try to load the page and the little circle would just spin and spin! After waiting 10-15 minutes for the page to load, we'd just give up. Most sites will load eventually, but GrammarPlanet just wouldn't load. The kids were just frustrated, which I understand completely. No one wants to spend an hour trying to work through a 15 minute lesson. Our internet last month was wiped out in 4 days, so needless to say we were not able to work through the program like I wanted to.
Our internet just reset, so I'm hoping to have the kids each work through 2 lessons a week. The site currently is loading exceptionally well and the lessons are working out great. I figure this will be a great way to reinforce the grammar curriculum we are already using. Now that school is officially back in session, their internet use for frivolous stuff is limited and of course dad is back to work too. Both of these will help with our horrible internet. This is just one of the the few downfalls of living in the sticks!
O.K., so we are little behind for this review, but from what I have seen I have to say it's a fantastic program. It's a strong, comprehensive program. I know if they work through a few lessons each week, their grammar understanding will improve greatly.
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Till Next Time,
Monique
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