Well-rdered Language Scope and Sequence Well-rdered Language (WL) is a comprehensive and sequential approach to teaching English grammar using analytical tools in a delightful way. WL s innovative oral analysis, unique marking system, and classical diagramming teach students to identify not only the parts of a sentence but also the function of each part and its relationships within a sentence. Well-rdered Language presents grammar in a clear, orderly way, simultaneously cultivating a child s wonder. In each level, a captivating narrative emerges in the lesson exercises. Instruction is presented with attractive illustrations and samples taken from classic children s literature and poetry. The following chart is divided into four grade levels (Levels 1 4), demonstrating the coverage of the essential principles of grammar. Each level builds on the understanding and skills students gain in previous levels, thereby providing them with a full understanding of each grammatical principle by the time they have completed all four levels of the curriculum. The objectives for each level is as follows: Level 1 (Grades 3 4): Students will memorize grammatical terms using songs in order to understand, to analyze, and to mark sentences. Level 2 (Grades 4 5): Students will master grammar songs and continue sentence analysis and marking. Students will also diagram in order to understand increasingly complicated sentences. Level 3/Level 4 (Grades 5 6/6 7+): Students will learn more advanced grammatical concepts and apply them to sophisticated sentences using the tools of analysis and diagramming. (Level 3 projected release: 2018; Level 4 projected release: 2019) 1
UnderstandingGrammaticalRelationships 1 2 3 4 ral Sentence Analysis Visual Sentence Analysis Literary Applications Sentence Diagramming Sentence Analysis 1 2 3 4 Principal Elements Modifiers: Adjectives Article Adjectives (a, an, the) Modifiers: Adverbs Predicate Verbs Helping Verbs Direct bjects Prepositional Phrases: Adverbial Introductory Prepositional Phrases Conjunctions Compound Subjects Compound Verbs Compound Direct bjects Predicate Nominatives Predicate Adjectives Linking Verbs Prepositional Phrases: Adjectival Possessive Nouns Interrogative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interjections 2
Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Relative (Adjectival) Clauses Sensory Linking Verbs Indirect bjects Participles Gerunds Infinitives Reflexive Pronouns Compound-Complex Sentences Participial Phrases Gerund Phrases Infinitive Phrases Intensive Pronouns Appositives Sentence Diagramming 1 2 3 4 Principal Elements Modifiers: Adjectives Modifiers: Adverbs Compound Elements Prepositional Phrases: Adverbial Direct bjects Predicate Nominatives Predicate Adjectives Linking Verbs Relative Pronouns Interjections 3
Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Prepositional Phrases: Adjectival Relative (Adjectival) Clauses Indirect bjects Participles Gerunds Infinitives Compound-Complex Sentences Appositives Participial Phrases Gerund Phrases Infinitive Phrases Definitions 1 2 3 4 Eight Parts of Speech Sentences Principal Elements Subjects and Predicates Nouns Verbs and Helping Verbs Adverbs Adjectives Direct bjects Four Classes of Verbs Pronouns Subject Pronouns bject Pronouns 4
Antecedents Prepositions List of Prepositions Phrases bject of the Preposition Coordinating Conjunctions Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms Possessive Pronouns Be Verbs Predicate Nominatives Predicate Adjectives Interrogative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Relative (Adjectival) Clauses Clauses Indirect bjects Reflexive Pronouns Absolute Possessive Pronouns Adverbial Clauses Subordinating Conjunctions Verbals: Participles Verbals: Gerunds Verbals: Infinitives Eight Parts of Speech 1 2 3 4 Nouns Verbs Adverbs 5
Adjectives Prepositions Pronouns Conjunctions Interjections Nouns 1 2 3 4 Definition Principal Elements Subjects Singular Nouns Plural Nouns Common Nouns Proper Nouns bject Nouns: Direct bjects bject Nouns: bjects of the Preposition Compound Subjects Compound Direct bjects Compound bjects of the Preposition Possessive Nouns Predicate Nominatives Compound Nouns Collective Nouns Concrete Nouns Abstract Nouns bject Nouns: Indirect bjects Gerunds 6
Appositives Gerund Phrases Infinitive Phrases Noun Clauses Level Verbs 1 2 3 4 Definition Principal Elements Four Classes of Verbs Predicate Verbs: Action Verbs Helping Verbs Transitive Verbs Intransitive Verbs Compound Verbs Contractions Use of Have/Has Use of Is/Are Linking Verbs Be Verbs Verb Tenses (present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect) Sensory Linking Verbs Verbals Adverbs 1 2 3 4 Definition Adverbs Compound Adverbs 7
Use of Not and Never Prepositional Phrases: Adverbial Introductory Prepositional Phrases Classes of Adverbs Uses of Well and Good Infinitives Adverbial Noun Phrases Adverbial Clauses Infinitive Phrases Adjectives 1 2 3 4 Definition Adjectives Article Adjectives Descriptive Adjectives Definitive Adjectives Predicate Adjectives Prepositional Phrases: Adjectival Relative (Adjectival) Clauses Proper Adjectives Participles Infinitives Simple Form Comparative Form Superlative Form Participial Phrases Infinitive Phrases 8
Prepositions 1 2 3 4 Definition Prepositions bjects of the Preposition Prepositional Phrases Introductory Prepositional Phrases Prepositional Phrases: Adverbial Participial Phrases: Adjectival Use of Between and Among Compound Prepositions Pronouns 1 2 3 4 Definition Pronouns Agreement in Number Subject Pronouns bject Pronouns: Direct bjects bject Pronouns: bjects of the Preposition Possessive Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Absolute Possessive Pronouns bject Pronouns: Indirect bjects Reflexive Pronouns Intensive Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns 9
Conjunctions 1 2 3 4 Definition Coordinating Conjunctions: Simple and, but, or with Compound Elements Conjunctions: Coordinating for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so with Compound Sentences Subordinate Conjunctions with Adverbial Clauses Interjections 1 2 3 4 Definition Kinds of Sentences 1 2 3 4 Declarative Interrogative Imperative Exclamatory Parts of a Sentence 1 2 3 4 Principal Elements Subjects: Simple Predicates: Simple Action Verbs Compound Subjects Compound Verbs Compound Direct bjects Prepositions bjects of the Preposition Phrases 10
Prepositional Phrases: Adverbial Subjects: Complete Predicates: Simple Predicate Nominative Predicates: Simple Predicate Adjective Compound Predicate Nominatives Compound Predicate Adjectives Linking Verbs Understood Subjects Prepositional Phrases: Adjectival Predicate Nominatives Predicate Adjectives Subordinate Clauses Relative (Adjectival) Clauses Indirect bjects Adverbial Clauses Structure of a Sentence 1 2 3 4 Word rder in Sentences Natural rder Simple Sentences Subject-Verb Agreement Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Fragments Compound-Complex Sentences Misplaced Modifiers Run-n Sentences Comma Splices 11
Verbals 1 2 3 4 Definition Participles Gerunds Infinitives Participial Phrases Gerund Phrases Infinitive Phrases Mechanics: Capitalization 1 2 3 4 First Word of a Sentence Proper Nouns: Names of People Proper Nouns: Names of Weekdays, Months Proper Nouns: Names of Cities, States, Countries Proper Adjectives First Word of a Direct Quotation Deities Abbreviations Punctuation: Periods 1 2 3 4 End of Declarative Sentences End of Imperative Sentences After Abbreviations Within Quotation Marks: End of Sentence 12
Punctuation: Question Marks 1 2 3 4 End of Interrogative Sentences Within Quotation Marks: Direct Quote of Questions Punctuation: Exclamation Points 1 2 3 4 End of Exclamatory Sentences Within Quotation Marks: Direct Quote With an Interjection Punctuation: Commas 1 2 3 4 After Introductory Prepositional Phrases Within City and State In Dates In Addresses With Direct Quotations Sequencing: xford Comma Between Adjectives Comma and Conjunction: Compound Sentences Non-Essential Elements With Appositives Punctuation: Apostrophes 1 2 3 4 Contractions Possessive Nouns 13
Punctuation: Quotation Marks 1 2 3 4 Direct Quotation Marks Titles of Written Works Punctuation: ther 1 2 3 4 Semicolons Hyphens Colons Slashes 14