{"id":221,"date":"2007-11-14T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/im-sure-they-start-earlier\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T03:46:05","slug":"im-sure-they-start-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/im-sure-they-start-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sure they start earlier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we had the chance to look at the grade 1 classrooms our child may be in next year. We had time to wonder around and look at the children&#8217;s work and the provided posters on the walls.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to see that they have learnt about adjectives, different writing styles (narrative, reporting, discussion, etc) and proofreading &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I didn&#8217;t know all that in grade 1!<\/p>\n<p>I occasionally help a trainer with a communications module he teaches as part of a course, and I can tell you there are a lot of adults who don&#8217;t know what these grade 1 students are learning. Of course, I see many other examples as I read things in general, too.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;ll have a very literate community in 30 years or so, or maybe it&#8217;s just our school setting a high standard. Either way, I&#8217;ll keep sharing writing and grammar tips here and in my newsletter in the hope of helping people use correct grammar &#8211; and parents stay up with their kids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we had the chance to look at the grade 1 classrooms our child may be in next year. We had time to wonder around and look at the children&#8217;s work and the provided posters on the walls. It was interesting to see that they have learnt about adjectives, different writing styles (narrative, reporting, discussion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,70],"tags":[638,640,125,93,639],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-grammar-details-2","tag-children","tag-grade-1","tag-grammar","tag-learning","tag-literate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}