Product Review: Grammaropolis CD (Age 7+)
Good Grammar is a Fundamental Part of a Child’s Education
I recently read a great blog post by ThoughtLeaders LLC Blog about the importance of ‘simple speak’ which includes speaking and writing plainly and properly. Grammar is a huge part of being clear in our communication and the way we ‘speak’ and the way we ‘write’ can sometimes make our language skills a little sketchy. While I can cringe at certain ways sentences are written or said, I know I can break rules right and left if I am not vigilant or do not slow down when I write. Quick turnaround in e-mails and just having little time to edit my own blog, I sometimes go back and think ‘Yikes!’ how did I let that slip? Grammar is so important and it is nice to know that making this subject fun and accessible to children can be a challenge, which is why I was very excited to learn about the mission of Grammaropolis.
Grammaropolis CD by the award-winning children’s kindie musician Doctor Noize is just one part of the entire grammar-based program. The Mayor of Grammaropolis, aka Coert Voorhees, was a 7th grade English teacher that found his bored students become interested when he started introducing storylines to writing and speech that got the kid’s interested. Coert sought out Doctor Noize to help him come up with a 21-track (Wow!) CD that is all about grammar for kids ages seven and up. The songs on the CD are hilarious (I think of them as a Rocky Horror Picture soundtrack – but about grammar- with a very musical-esque quality) yet educational that is a great tool for parents, teachers, and students who need a little help with grammar rules. If your child struggles with the difference between adjective and adverb, transitive and intransitive verbs or knowing the importance of properly using correlative conjunctions, well, this may be just the ticket! Hey, you may even learn a few things, too.
Want song samples? Check out the song samples for Grammaropolis here!
Track Listing:
1. Vacation
2. Welcome to Grammaropolis
3. Nouns
4. Noun Town
5. Verbs
6. Lights! Camera!! Action Verb!!!
7. Adjectives
8. Paint the Way
9. Adverbs
10. Do You Qualify?
11. Slang
12. Let’s Get Groovy, Baby
13. Pronouns
14. I Got the Blues
15. Interjections
16. It’s How You Feel
17. Prepositions
18. A Merit Badge Is Just Like a Cat
19. Conjunctions
20. Let’s Bring It All Together
21. Word Out
Check it out! The Grammaropolis learning website has won a 2012 Parents’ Choice Approved Award and 2012 National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval. Included in their product line is Grammaropolis books like Vinny the Action Verb & Lucy the Linking Verb from their Meet the Parts of Speech series. The new Grammaropolis app is new and coming out in October 2012.
List Price: $8.99
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