Here are some Suggested Sequences for teaching concepts listed below (through games and activities).  There is nothing hard or fast about these sequences; they are just a starting point.

These charts also have links to the relevant lessons on Daily Grammar, in case the parent needs a quick grammar refresher!

Sequence 1 (Years 1-12)

Sequence 2 (Years 6-12)

Sequence 3 (Years 9-12)

Nouns

Pronouns

1. personal
2. agreement with antecedent
3. possessive
4. indefinite
5. agreement with antecedent – indefinite
6. demonstrative
7. interrogative
8. relative
9. reflexive
10. intensive
11. possessive case
12. nominative case
13. objective case
14. incomplete
15. unclear

1. action
2. simple conjugation with s and ing
3. state of being and linking
4. helping
5. verb phrases
6. contractions
7. verb phrases with contractions (apostrophe)
8. verb phrase order
9. agreement – singular and plural nouns
10. agreement – indefinite pronouns
11. transitive active
12. transitive passive
13. intransitive linking
14. intransitive complete
15. principal parts
16. tricky ones – sit/set, lie/lay
17. verb tense and conjugation
18. progressive forms
19. usage – tense, voice, mood

1. modify nouns
2. common and proper (hyphen)
3. articles
4. comparisons
5. nouns as adjectives [noun adjuncts]
6. possessive nouns (apostrophe)
7. plural possessive nouns (apostrophe)
8. compound plural possessive nouns (apostrophe)
9. possessive pronouns [pronominal adjectives] (apostrophe)
10. indefinite possessive pronouns
11. demonstrative and interrogative pronouns
12. verbs as adjectives [participial adjectives]
13. prepositional phrases as adjectives
14. comma use in coordinate adjectives
15. inanimate vs animate
16. clauses as adjectives

1. modify verbs
2. formation
3. not
4. comparisons
5. common
6. compound
7. prepositional phrases as adverbs
8. modify adjectives
9. modify other adverbs
10. adverb/adjective confusion
11. double negatives and double comparisons
12. “there” and “here”
13. nouns as adverbs
14. clauses as adverbs (comma, semicolon)

1. common
2. compound
3. phrases and objects
4. dangling
5. introductory phrases (comma)

1. coordinate (comma)
2. correlative
3. subordinate

1. declarative sentences (period)
2. compound subjects
3. interrogative sentence (question mark)
4. exclamatory sentence (exclamation point)
5. imperative sentences/commands (period)
6. clauses and phrases
7. fragments and run-ons

1. direct objects
2. compound direct objects
3. direct objects with compound verbs
4. compound direct objects with compound verbs
5. predicate nouns [predicate nominatives]
6. predicate adjectives
7. indirect objects
8. inverted sentence structure

1. gerunds
2. noun infinitives (comma)
3. participles (comma)
4. adverb infinitives

1. initials (period)
2. name suffixes (comma)
3. name prefixes/titles (period)
4. common nouns as names
5. “I”
6. days and months (comma)
7. seasons
8. holidays and events
9. geography (comma)
10. compound common and proper nouns
11. address (comma)
12. small words in compound proper nouns
13. countries, languages, races
14. buildings and structures
15. brand names and products
16. regions and directions
17. religions
18. organizations
19. school subjects and classes
20. officials and offices (hyphen)
21. epithets and personifications

1. quotation marks and capitalization
2. end punctuation (period, ?, !, comma)
3. multiple quotes from one speaker (comma)
4. change of speaker
5. multiple paragraphs
6. indirect quotations
7. quotes within a quote
8. end punctuation (colon, semicolon)

1. commas with 3 or more words
2. commas with 3 or more numbers
3. commas with 3 or more phrases
4. commas with 3 or more short clauses
5. semicolons with independent clauses
6. semicolons with phrases containing commas
7. advanced comma usage
8. advanced colon usage
9. advanced dash usage
10. parentheses

1. abbreviations (period, slash)
2. time and date (period)
3. money and decimals (period)
4. setting off special words (quotation marks)
5. time – hours and minutes (colon)
6. long, formal quotations (colon)
7. foreign words (italics)
8. figures used as words (italics, apostrophe)
9. emphasis (italics)
10. time, space, amounts (apostrophe)
11. hours and years (apostrophe)
12. slang (apostrophe)
13. numbers, telephone numbers (hyphen)
14. fractions (hyphen, slash)
15. “self” (hyphen)
16. multiple words used as an adjective (hyphen)
17. noun plus prepositional phrase (hyphen)
18. clarify pronunciation (hyphen)
19. show omission of small words (hyphen)
20. numbered or lettered divisions (parentheses)
21. numerals and written numbers (parentheses)
22. acronyms (parentheses)
23. insertions added (brackets)
24. sic (brackets)
25. parts of a choice (slash)