Designed for
本课程适于：
self-study
自主学习
parent/tutor monitored study
家长/老师指导学习
classroom/group study
课堂学习
FOUNDATION A
The Simple Sentence and Compound Elements
FOUNDATION B
The Simple Sentence and Compound Sentence
INTERMEDIATE
Mechanics, Syntax; Further Work with Simple and Compound Sentences
In Production
ADVANCED A
Dependent Clauses and Complex Sentences
In Production
ADVANCED B
Verbals, Verbal Phrases, and Complex Sentences
In Production
Real-time teacher guidance and modeling in each Lesson produces
每一课中老师都会实时指导与示范
Vocal and written analysis, and
Hand-written sentences and ruler-drawn diagrams
On lined notebook paper
Available for review and validation of completed work
手口并用地分析句子，
认真地书写句子并用尺画图解
使用标准的条格纸
便于复习和验证之前的课程
NO clicking or typing during the Lessons
NO distracting or entertaining interaction with the computer
Student focus is guided continually toward their own work:
- listening and watching the examples given in real time
- analyzing sentences aloud
- copying sentences
- drawing sentence diagrams
on their own paper, at their own desks
GOLDEN GRAMMAR CLASSROOM
These courses form the core of the Samuelson Edu curriculum, for the simple reason that skill with clear, precise and expressive language begins with a recognition and understanding of the interconnected details, i.e. the grammar and syntax, of language itself.
In the Golden Grammar Classroom the teacher leads and accompanies the students patiently and expertly from beginning to end, each and every step of the way, to the point of the students’ independent mastery of the material.
Students are instructed to, and continually trained to, look at their own papers, their own work, rather than to fixate on the computer screen. The teacher’s voice holds the students’ attention, moment to moment, and focuses their physical, verbal and mental activity on the task at hand, training them to listen and respond with active attention.
Under the teacher’s direct hand in visual real-time, Golden Grammar Classroom Lessons move step-by-step to increasingly sophisticated analysis of dynamic sentence patterns through carefully guided activities of speaking, writing, and drawing sentence diagrams.
Each Lesson is absolutely essential to those that follow it. No skill learned in one class is abandoned, but rather is incorporated into a web of continually reinforced, conscious understanding of language structure.
Students’ learning in each Lesson occurs, interconnects and stabilizes in the following sequence:
- they read the sentences of the Lesson aloud; hear and speak the
structural analysis of the sentence aloud, first imitating, then
speaking unassisted; - copy the sentences and again label each word, repeating oral
analysis once again as they write; - and then mentally visualize and draw two-dimensional diagrams
to represent in a spatial format the logic of the sentences.
A final reading of the sentence that follows the spatial order of the diagram is then spoken aloud.
When students complete one instructional Lesson as detailed above, including the correction of the “Extra Practice” homework with the teacher, they then possess a perfect written record of their sentence analysis and diagrams; additionally, they should be able to verbalize the analysis of each sentence of the Lesson, because this verbal articulation has been practiced multiple times in the video Lesson.
Students thus “walk away” from each Lesson with visible, demonstrable growth in their analytical and cognitive skills. This is the result we should expect from all educational activity, be it in bricks-and-mortar classrooms or in online classrooms, such as the Golden Grammar Classroom.