By Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW)·Language Arts · Grammar
5 video reviews: 5 positive
Fix It! Grammar is one of the rare programs where every reviewer in this set is not just positive but sticking with it: one family is on its third year, another continues into seventh grade, a third runs it across all three kids at once, and the fourth adopted it mid-year and kept it. The format draws consistent praise: each level works through a single story (reviewers mention Town Mouse and Country Mouse at level two and Robin Hood at level three), with kids editing one to two sentences a day — hunting for nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, capitalization, and punctuation — then rewriting the corrected sentence. That makes lessons short (10-15 minutes) and easy to slot in first thing. The standout pattern is who it works for. One mom brought it in because her son "just wasn't getting the grammar down" and credits the constant simple repetition for finally making an abstract subject stick; another says flat out she's no grammar whiz and leans on the program's clear explanations. Kids reportedly enjoy it too — the continuing story helps, especially when a child already loves the book. One family even doubles the daily rewrite as handwriting practice. Cost gets a nod as well: roughly $29 for a teacher's manual plus student workbook and about $19 for a workbook alone, with the teacher's manual reusable across siblings. Notably, no reviewer here raised a complaint — several also use other IEW products (Structure and Style, Phonetic Zoo) and describe the publisher as their go-to for language arts.
Synthesized from 5 independent video reviews — every claim sourced from what real homeschool parents said on camera.
Families who want a short, daily, story-based grammar routine that works for grammar-shy parents and kids who need repetition to make grammar stick.
Parents looking for a standalone full language arts program, since reviewers pair it with separate writing, spelling, and reading curricula.
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“we started it last year and it has been really wonderful. It's easy to add. They're short lessons and the kids are picking it up so fast. And the stories are fun, too.”
“It takes us maybe 10 15 minutes to work through and then they practice rewriting the sentence with any corrections. It's very simple, very straightforward and the kids really enjoy it.”
“Grammar has been something he has struggled with. I feel like for some kids it's more of an abstract concept to them and it's hard for them to nail down everything and just the constant simple repetition of fix it grammar has really worked for him.”
“this is a program that works really well for her so we are going to continue it in seventh grade”
“they do a good job explaining everything and we love fix it grammar”
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Each level takes the student through one full story across the year — reviewers mention Town Mouse and Country Mouse and Robin Hood. Kids work line by line on one to two sentences a day, finding nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, capitalization, and punctuation, then rewriting the sentence with corrections. By year's end they've edited the whole story.
Short. One mom of three says working through it takes maybe 10-15 minutes, and reviewers describe it as easy to add at the start of the school day before math and reading.
That's exactly the story one reviewer tells: her fifth grader wasn't getting grammar down with other curricula, and the constant simple repetition of Fix It! Grammar is what finally worked. Another reviewer's daughter has used it across multiple levels because the program works really well for her.
Reviewers say no. One mom calls herself 'not a grammar wiz' and says the program does a good job explaining everything — it's been her family's go-to for three years running.
One reviewer paid $29 for a level's teacher manual plus student workbook, and $19 for each additional student workbook. The teacher's manual is reusable, so younger siblings only need new workbooks — her total for three kids on two levels was about $64.
Several reviewers use it alongside IEW's Structure and Style writing and Phonetic Zoo spelling, and say the resources work well together. One also reuses the daily Fix It! rewrite as handwriting and copywork practice.