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Does R&S in the books used for for WG and up still have a lot of diagramming? My DD will be coming home for 9th grade, but has had virtually no diagramming experience. It's not done in schools here. It's scarily light what they bring home for grammar. It's called Daily Language Review. It's maybe 4 sentences and they correct them. Maybe 'underline the noun' type stuff. I ask if that's all they do for grammar, and they say yes. I'm unsure if they'd be ready to jump into R&S.

Any advice?

Just a bump.

Maybe Carrie's link here will help?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15406#p108447

Thanks. It sort of did. But it appears that child will be using a couple guides ahead of the highschool ones.

I'm wondering where I'd start her if we did R&S. Would diagramming be too hard to catch on to this late in the game? Is there a R&S placement test?

English is her strongest area. High grades consistently in all areas. I'm just not sure about introducing her to completely unfamiliar style of English.

I had a similar problem last year. It was our first time using HOD and my two boys (they were 9th and 10th last year) had really only had Winston Grammar basic. I looked at samples on the Milestone website and decided to go with English 6. They picked up on the diagramming fairly quickly. We did a lot of it together on a white board. You could look at the samples and maybe that would help you. If you go back and look at that link to Carrie's post, focus on the second paragraph. That is basically what I did (and am doing with my two). HTH