Product Overview
Practice Pages target specific writing skills
For kids ages 8-14 who can read and write comfortably.
There are moments when you wish you had just the right lesson on hand to help with a tricky concept. The Big Batch has all twelve Practice Pages, so they are there for you when you need them.
Twelve tricky grammar and punctuation concepts tackled in one complete downloadable set!
Each set of Practice Pages features a tricky grammar, spelling, or punctuation concept.
This batch includes:
- proper versus common nouns
- identifying verbs
- knowing the difference between adjectives and adverbs
- there, they're, and their homophone confusion
- apostrophes in contractions and with possessive nouns
- knowing when to use a colon, semicolon, or em dash
- selecting between farther or further
- knowing when to use I or me
- choosing whose or who’s
- spotting sentence fragments
- deciphering when to use to, two, and too
- possessive nouns versus plural nouns
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation, two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Each set of Practice Pages includes:
- Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
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2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept in context
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2 printable pages of French-style dictation
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2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is getting real, meaningful practice on a tricky concept
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We heard you.) Download the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Fragment or complete sentence?
For kids ages 8-14 who can read and write comfortably.
One missing piece. One deliberate choice. Completely different effect.
Sentence fragments are one of many tools in a writer's toolbox. Skilled writers use them to sharpen a moment, create tension, slow time, or help a feeling land.
When your child learns how sentence fragments work, they can begin to use them with intention in their fiction writing and understand when to leave them out in academic writing, where precision and completeness matter.
In these Practice Pages, your child will explore sentence fragments in context through hand-selected passages from classic children's literature.
Practice Pages pair those passages with French-style and reverse dictation, two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
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Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
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2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept in context
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is getting real, meaningful practice on a tricky concept
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We heard you.) Download the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Three to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
Possessive or Plural?
For kids ages 8-14 who can read and write comfortably.
One little s. Sometimes with an apostrophe, sometimes not. For kids, the rules around plurals and possessives can feel arbitrary until the words are explored in context.
That's where these Practice Pages come in.
Your child will encounter plurals and possessives in hand-selected passages from classic children's literature, where they will see that the difference actually matters to the meaning.
Practice Pages pair those passages with French-style and reverse dictation, two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
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Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept in context
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is getting real, meaningful practice on a tricky concept
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We heard you.) Download the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Three to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
To, Too, and Two
For kids ages 8-14 who can read and write comfortably.
Not too long ago, you went over the homophones to, too, and two in your grammar book, yet that last birthday card to Grandma had the wrong one. Will they ever get it? They will, and these Practice Pages can help.
These Practice Pages give your child the opportunity to see to, too, and two in the meaningful context of two hand-selected passages from classic children's literature.
Practice Pages pair those passages with French-style and reverse dictation, two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning and use these homophones with confidence.
Practice Pages include:
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Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept in context
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is getting real, meaningful practice on a tricky concept
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We heard you.) Download the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Three to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
Whose and Who's
For kids ages 8-14 who can read and write comfortably.
You are reading your child's writing. You see who's instead of whose. You just went over this! Exasperated, you wonder if they are ever going to "get it!"
Like most homophones, these two words are stumpers. They sound identical, and mixing them up is common. That's likely because kids often never have the chance to really feel the difference in the context of real stories.
That's exactly what these Practice Pages are for.
Your child will meet whose and who's in hand-selected passages from classic children's literature, where the words are doing their jobs, not just hanging out in a boring example sentence on a worksheet.
Practice Pages pair those passages with French-style and reverse dictation, two innovative strategies that help kids truly retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
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Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept in context
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is getting real, meaningful practice on a tricky concept
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We heard you.) Download the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Three to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
Nifty Nouns
Practice makes progress! Time to sharpen those specific, tricky skills with our beautiful Practice Pages!
Learn more about Nifty Nouns
Common versus Proper
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
Is your child's writing a chaotic array of lower and uppercase letters?
Are your kids struggling to remember the capitalization difference between the "white house" down the street and the famous one on Pennsylvania Ave. where the American president lives?
Introducing Practice Pages! Give your kids the opportunity to learn the difference between everyday nouns and those special ones that start with the BIG letters.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch One to get four at a discounted price!
There, Their, and They're
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
These tricky words that sound the same yet have different meanings stump lots of emerging writers.
The best way to learn to differentiate them is to use them in the context of meaningful language. Introducing Practice Pages! Give your kids the opportunity to encode the distinctive meanings through practice.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch One to get four at a discounted price!
Dots, lines, and curves! What do they do?
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
Three types of punctuation with overlapping jobs! Which one to use?
Introducing Practice Pages: your kids can expand their punctuation prowess by putting these handy—and sometimes tricky—marks to work.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Two to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
Action/ Tense/ Helping/ State-of-Being
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
Sometimes verbs are hiding in plain sight. Those helping verbs can be so tiny and those state-of-being verbs, so inactive!
Easy to miss if you've got kid-eyes. Let's help them out—give them the not-annoying practice they need.
Introducing Practice Pages! Your children get to feel smart and powerful as they master the various verb forms that populate the books they love.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch One to get four at a discounted price!
Those descriptors are tricky!
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
These lively words give a lot of oomph to the books we read, but differentiating between which is an adjective and which is an adverb stumps lots of writers.
The best way to learn to tell them apart is to use them in the context of meaningful language. Introducing Practice Pages! Give your kids the opportunity to encode the distinctive grammar elements through practice.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch One to get four at a discounted price!
I or Me
Practice makes progress! Time to sharpen those specific, tricky skills with our beautiful Practice Pages!
Learn more about I or Me
I or Me? That is the question!
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
Ever wonder how to help your child make the right choice when deciding between using "I" or "me" in a sentence?
The best way to learn which one to use is to learn the distinction in the context of meaningful language—and know a handy trick or two!
Introducing Practice Pages! Give your kids the opportunity to encode the distinctive grammar elements through practice.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Two to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
Farther or Further? Which will it be?
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
Should you venture farther or further down the yellow brick road? Should you think further or farther before skipping off into the unknown?
Look no further . . . or is it farther? Hummm . . . Give your kids the opportunity to learn the difference between farther and further so they can tackle these often mixed-up words with confidence.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Two to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
Apostrophes
Practice makes progress! Time to sharpen those specific, tricky skills with our beautiful Practice Pages!
Learn more about Apostrophes
Contractions and Possessive Nouns
For kids ages 8-14, who can read and write comfortably.
Apostrophes are little marks with big jobs!
The best way to learn how to use them in contractions and with possessive nouns is in the context of meaningful language.
Introducing Practice Pages! Give your kids the opportunity to flex their apostrophe muscles through practice.
Practice Pages pair passages from classic children’s literature with French-style and reverse dictation—two innovative strategies that help kids retain what they're learning.
Practice Pages include:
-
Easy-to-understand explanations of the tricky concept
-
2 hand-selected passages from classic children’s literature demonstrating the concept
-
2 printable pages of French-style dictation
-
2 reverse dictation passages with at least 15 errors to correct + answer key
- Peace of mind that your child is finally getting to practice that tricky concept!
This is the companion product you’ve been asking for. (We listen!) Take a look at the free sample.
Combine these pages with your Dart, Arrow, or Boomerang to continue to grow your child’s grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills!
Buy Practice Pages Batch Two to get four Practice Pages at a discounted price!
