Sentence Smart Grammar for Reading Comprehension & Writing Skills

Sentence Smart Grammar is an easy, exciting multisensory sentence construction and reading comprehension system. It enables students to physically disassemble and analyze sentences by "interviewing" the parts of speech with questions that reveal their connections. Sentence Smart uses the Orton-Gillingham method, which promotes (V.I.T.A.L.) or Visual, Interactive, Tactile, Auditory Learning.

The heart of Sentence Smart is Magnetic-Grammar. Magnetic-Grammar helps students to analyze sentences in a visual, interactive, tactile manner. Magnetic-Grammar consists of a dry-erase magnetic board, reusable sentence strips, and color-coded magnetized labels and questions for each part of speech. Students use the magnetic board to physically disassemble, question, and label each word or group of words according to its function within the sentence. All of this is supplemented by the Sentence Smart Grammar Books, online quizzes, comprehensive, easy-to-use instructional videos, and certified teacher support.

Sentence Smart Grammar Summary Video

Students improve their reading comprehension and writing skills by mastering grammar and vocabulary through color-coded cards, spinners, songs, videos, workbooks, online lessons, and practice quizzes with immediate and encouraging feedback.

Sentence Smart Grammar: A Live Demo

Here's one of our 2nd graders explaining the grammatical structure of sentences.

Listen to one of our elementary students analyzing and expanding a sentence.

What are the parts of speech?

​ScholarSkills Definitions of the Parts of Speech
  • A noun is a naming word: nouns name persons, places, things, or ideas.
  • A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
  • A verb is an action, being, or helping word.
  • A subject is a word or group of words that answers the question: who or what verb?
  • The predicate is a word or group of words that tells us what the subject is doing or being.
  • An object is a word or group of words that answers the question: verb who or what?
  • An indirect object is a word that answers the question verb to whom or for whom?
  • A subject complement is a word or group of words that answers the question “verb who or
  • what?” when the verb is a linking word.
  • When the complement is an adjective it is called a predicate adjective.
  • When the complement is a noun or pronoun it is called a predicate nominative.
  • An adverb is a word or group of words that answers the following questions:
  • verb where? verb when? verb why? verb how?. Adverbs also answer “how?” and “to what
  • extent?” about adjectives and other adverbs.
  • An adjective is a word or group of words that answers the following questions:
  • what kind? which one? how many nouns?
  • A phrase is a group of words without a subject-verb relationship.
  • Prepositions are words which begin phrases that end with a noun or pronoun and act like
  • adverbs or adjectives.
  • Conjunctions connect. They help us to create and understand the relationships between
  • words and groups of words in sentences.
  • Coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS—For,And,Nor,But,Or,Yet,So) connect words and help
  • to create compound sentences.
  • Subordinating conjunctions create dependent clauses and complex sentences.
  • A clause is a group of words with a subject-verb relationship.
  • Dependent clauses are incomplete thoughts.
  • Independent clauses are complete sentences.

Sentence Smart Grammar Resources

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​Sentence Smart Grammar Book.