Did you get the teacher's guides? We bought the whole package with Practice Island. The back of the Teacher's guides have suggestions. My son journals or writes daily and we are talking about grammar/sentance stuff constanly. My 5 year old enjoys the stories and even conceptually understands the pieces, but she is definitely not ready for the writing or implementation. My son would be a 3rd grader. And I'm glad we waited until this age. He's the right age for really getting the humor in the stories and the writing exercises. I had a jr. high English teacher look at the curriculum and she was extremely impressed. She said it really was what they cover in 7th/8th grade packaged nicely for younger kids.