Diagramming Sentences

[Frantasmic]

I'm showing my age, but I remember diagramming sentences in 6th grade. My daughter, a 7th grader, is doing extensive grammar exercises and I remember learning a great deal about different parts of speech while diagramming.

Does anyone's school district still diagram sentences?

 

[teacherforhi]

I don't think they do it in the regular ed classes, but the reading program adopted by the special ed department has diagramming. I think it's great for visual learners. Every part of speech has its place.

 

[monarchsfan16]

We diagrammed sentences when I was in 7th grade. We spent at least a month on it. This was in either the fall of 1999 or the spring of 2000, so not THAT long ago. Actually we may have done a bit of it my freshman year of high school too.

 

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

I remember my DD having so much trouble with that last year, in 8th grade.

 

[Sparx]

I did that in 2nd grade. And never again.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

Our school does it, DD's 8th and 6th grade both have to do this. Lots of homework every night. I do think it helps understand the parts of speech and how the sentences fit together logically.

 

[daisyduck123]

I don't think they do it in the regular ed classes, but the reading program adopted by the special ed department has diagramming.

Same here...they just do it in the Special Ed. classes here.

 

[Mary Anne]

I did it in 3rd grade, that would have been in 1959. My kids never once did it. I think it really helped and I don't remember having any problem learning it.

 

[RadioNate]

We did it in 8th grade. Hell on Earth. Torture.

 

[CheshireVal]

A lot of schools have switched to sentence labeling or sentence decorating, which is kind of the same concept but without all the tricky lines.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

yes - I think what my kids do is better described as sentence labelling. They have little symbols they use and they write the parts of speech over the words. But nearly every grade does at least one quarter of intensive parts of speech grammar, from the early Elem years to Senior in High School. After that they move on to Composition and Essay writing.

This week my 7th grader was doing Indirect and Direct Objects, Predicate Nouns and Adjectives, verb phrases, and Sentence Fragments/Run-on sentences.

 

[Chipperdini]

We did it in Jr. High. I remember enjoying it - it was fun!

 

[Mary Anne]

The lines were the best part LOL

 

[Patricia]

I use it with my students in 8th grade. Some of them are very good at it and can see the connections. Others find it torture, as previously stated. I do not assess using it however, just use it as a learning tool. I used to LOVE it when I was in school,but I have discovered I really was a grammar geek.

 

[missypie]

We did a lot of it in 7th grade. My kids have only heard of it because I've told them about it.

I was a Deaf Ed major in college. We had to take a course called "Traditional and Non-Traditional Grammars." We would diagram sentences that would take up pages. I was freakishly good at it. I've always wondered what that says about my brain.

 

[tar heel]

My 7th grader will do it this year in AG language arts. I remember doing it in 6th grade and our teacher made a really big deal about how hard it was. I thought it was a piece of cake and kind of fun.

 

[Caradana]

I did it in 7th and 8th grade, and it was invaluable. It helped me SO MUCH later in the SATs and also in Latin. Once you see the patterns of the English language, analysis, structure and rhythm come naturally.

 

[slimplaw]

My daughter diagrammed sentences in middle school. She was very excited because she was learning this "new" thing. I had to tell her it was not new. I always enjoyed it.
Missypie-you probably did the Fitzgerald Key in your deaf ed class, didn't you? I loved the key also and think it should be done more often.