Russian Language GRAMMAR
4-9th grade

Buratino (4-5 grades)
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Introduction of elementary school grammar
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The Russian alphabet
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Vowels and consonants, types and classifications
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Study of individual letters, their properties and use
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Stresses, identification of stressed syllables
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Understanding syllables, word division into syllables and for breaking a line.
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Review spelling rules жи-ши, ча-ща, чу-щу
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Introduce new rules (ЧК-ЧН, НЧ-НЩ-ЩН), etc.
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What is a sentence, types of sentence, rules or capitalization and punctuation.
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Intro to word components (морфемный разбор слов/по составу)
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Americanisms - Reviewing common words and expressions that bilinguals typically derive from English and erroneously apply to Russian ("взять класс" и т.п)
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Language enrichment through vocabulary, proverbs and idioms.
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Grammar individual exercises, quizzes and games
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Dictations focused on grammatical structures learned in class


Znaika (5-6 grades)
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Elementary school grammar
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Sentence structure, subject verb agreement, understanding of sentences, looking at word dependencies
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Introduction of parts of speech
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Review word components (морфемный разбор слов/по составу), in particular as it pertains to parts of speech
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Basic orthography rules
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Americanisms - Reviewing common words and expressions that bilinguals typically derive from English and erroneously apply to Russian ("взять класс" и т.п)
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Basic translation skills.
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Language enrichment through vocabulary, proverbs and idioms.
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Grammar individual exercises, quizzes and games
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Dictations focused on grammatical structures learned in class


Matroskin (6-7 grades) - NOT OFFERED IN 2022-23
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Elementary grammar
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Review parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, numerals)
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Reviewing word dependencies, introduction of cases
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Nouns - special properties of nouns, dividing nouns into declensions
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Working on cases with singular nouns
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Americanisms - Reviewing common words and expressions that bilinguals typically derive from English and erroneously apply to Russian ("взять класс" и т.п)
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Basic translation skills.
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Language enrichment through vocabulary, proverbs and idioms.
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Grammar individual exercises, quizzes and games
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Dictations focused on grammatical structures learned in class
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Russian level evaluations via practicing standardized Russian tests


Muromets (6-9 grades)
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Grammar
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Learn/review case declensions for singular nouns, plural noun cases, declension of adjectives and possessive pronouns, verbs and conjugations
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Focus on orthography rules, sentence structures, word dependencies
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Language enrichment through vocabulary, proverbs and idioms
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Compositions and writing assignments
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Grammar comprehension and testing via individual exercises, quizzes and games
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Dictations focused on grammatical structures learned in class as well as topical reviews
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Russian level evaluations via practicing standardized Russian tests