04/11/2026
Dear Sophomore Parents,
Why I Believe My Grammar Curriculum Is So Important
Junior year is already the most stressful and academically demanding time for your child— The English section is the biggest part of the test, and it’s heavily weighted in the composite score. Yet most schools have stopped teaching grammar altogether. The curriculum now focuses almost entirely on EOC exams and literature, so students enter test season with almost no foundation in punctuation, sentence structure, verb tense, pronoun usage, or the other rules that make up roughly half the ACT English and SAT Writing & Language sections.
That’s why I see English scores stuck in the low teens or even below the 50th percentile. When students jump straight into ACT prep without the basics, they get overwhelmed. They can’t digest all the rules at once, they guess based on what “sounds right,” and their scores plateau—no matter how many strategies I teach them.
My grammar curriculum fixes that at the root. It is not ACT or SAT prep; it’s the essential foundation that comes before any test prep. I built it from my years in the classroom and structured it in tiered, integrated units so that once a skill is learned, it’s practiced and reinforced in every lesson that follows—just like real language works. It takes 18–20 sessions, but because your child has never had consistent grammar instruction, the payoff is huge: dramatically higher English scores, noticeably stronger writing in school (teachers regularly ask, “Where did you learn to write like this?”), and the confidence that comes from truly understanding how English works.
Sophomore year or early junior year is the ideal time to complete it. That way, when it's time for ACT/SAT prep, they aren't overwhelemd with learning grammar and ACT/SAT strategies. The grammar foundation I provide doesn’t just raise test scores; it gives them a lifelong skill that helps with college essays, scholarship applications, and every piece of writing they’ll ever do.
If you want to give your child the strongest possible start, this is where it begins. I’m happy to send a diagnostic assessment ($50) so you can see exactly where they stand. The grammar curriculum isn’t a shortcut—it’s the solid ground everything else is built on.
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