Grammar Songs copyright date [6.28.06]

The Grammar Songs edition Sonlight currently sells has a copyright date of 1984

with revisions in 1986, 1987, 1991, 1994

The grammar songs are LOOSELY tied to / scheduled with concepts in the activity sheets, and are not scheduled to correlate exactly with each concept studied. However, we do schedule them around the same time the concept is studied.

12.08.05 The answer key is found in a separate booklet, usually tucked into the workbook.

Foundational Grammar

Foundational Grammar description is an 18 unit kit with instructions and quick activities for several different grammar topics. The first few units are easy, but then they build on each other and become more difficult as the program goes along. For instance, the first week is nouns, the second verbs, and then later in the program (in unit 15) they do coordinating conjunctions.

There is no formal schedule, but we suggest customers take one week for each unit to make the program last half the year. They could, of course, do it at a faster (or slower) pace if that fits better. It is important that they master each unit before they move on to the next one, so they might spend a while on one section. An older student could probably work through the first few units very quickly. The kit can go with any Language Arts program spread out during the year or just by itself, or customers could do it in the summer before they start the school year if they want a refresher, or want to work on the more difficult aspects of grammar or problem areas.

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is appropriate for LA 2 Adv and above. The catalog (p. 129) incorrectly states, "Foundational Grammar will work as a supplement to any Language Arts program."

The product was originally designed for students coming into Sonlight's Language Arts program at LA 4 or above without the benefit of LAK-3. It's sort of a "catch up" product. I also recommend it as a nice grammar overview for whenever students are *ready* for grammar. This could be at LA 2 Advanced or LA3. I don't believe I've ever *recommended* this product for lower than LA3 (which in my mind is fairly close to LA 2 Adv.), but parents know their students best.

My Access

As of February 13th, 2007 our stock of My Access subscriptions has been depleted and we will no longer be selling this product. Because we have been unable to promise technical support at the level of service our customers have come to expect from us, we have decided to discontinue this product. We will continue to support those existing My Access customers to the best of our ability. The My Access Forum will remain open and monitored until we are confident that all My Access subscriptions have expired. The website is being revised to reflect this change. This product will not be available in the 2007 catalog. We will continue to support all subscriptions sold to our customers.

Here are instructions for those customers wishing to continue with My Access ...
• Customers should log on the Vantage Online Store (http://www.vantagelearning.com/mahome/) and purchase the MY Access Home Edition package that best meets their needs

• Because essays submitted through the school version of My Access will not automatically be transferred to the home version, Vantage will extract students’ essays from the old application and send them to the user in a text file when the transition has been made to the new application

• Matt Daneker, the manager of our My Access Home Edition initiative, will provide instructions to users who have migrated to MY Access Home with directions as to how they can use their old essays in the new application (Matt may be contacted at [email protected]) (6.20.07)

Feel free to refer people who have used My Access to Vantage directly. 8.9.07

Updated My Access information For customers who wish to continue. (9.6.07)