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Here’s a daily grammar routine you can do even if you’re short on time.

Look, I get it, you’re strapped for time.

It’s difficult to help your kid practice grammar when you barely have time to make dinner.

But what if I told you there was a quick, easy grammar exercise you and your kid could do that only takes 10 minutes a day?

Would you help your kid more often? Of course you would!

So, here’s the exercise:

Write a complete sentence and have your kid label which part of speech each word is.

For example, let’s say you write this sentence:

He / goes / to / the / park.

Now, ask your child to label each word. It’ll look something like this:

• “He” is a pronoun and subject.
• “goes” is a verb.
• “to” is a preposition.
• “the” is an article.
• “park” is a noun and object.

This is a quick and easy drill I like to give my students as a pop quiz to see what they remember and what they need to work on.

I also have a worksheet with these types of questions that I hand out after my students complete a grammar unit.

However, these exercises are much more effective if your child knows or is learning the parts of speech.

The reason is that if they don’t, they won’t know how to label the words. So, teach them the basics of grammar first.

An easy way to do this is with grammar workbooks because workbooks have grammar lessons and practice questions.

Your child will learn the rules of grammar and apply what they learn, which will aid memory and understanding.

If this sounds like it’ll help you, you can check out my grammar workbooks here.