Pre-K–Grade 1
Listen, notice, build.
Begin with complete spoken ideas, naming and action words, describing words, and asking and telling. Pictures, narration, and simple sentence building support early learners.
Grammar Quest · Coming soon
Homeschool grammar, one clear step at a time.
HillLight Grammar Quest is being built for Pre-K through Grade 8: from listening to a complete idea to writing and editing stronger sentences.
Short explanations, practice with support, independent checks, and later review give each skill time to settle. Each grade builds on the skills learned before it.
Coming soon. The academic courses are in development and are not available to purchase yet.
- Grades
- Pre-K through Grade 8
- Focus
- Grammar and language skills
- Course design
- 36 weeks per grade
- Family scheduling
- 2–5 days a week
What they’ll learn
From spoken ideas to thoughtful editing.
Each grade is designed as a full school-year grammar course, with about 64–72 core lessons and room for practice and review. The content changes as learners grow.
Grades 2–5
Make sentences work.
Explore parts of speech, subjects and predicates, sentence types, punctuation, agreement, and joining ideas. Apply the skills by building sentences and editing short passages.
Grades 6–8
Use language with care.
Work with phrases and clauses, verb forms, pronoun use, modifiers, and sentence variety. Explain choices and apply grammar while editing more complex writing.
What each grade covers
Choose a starting grade that fits your child. Children see their level called a “Trail” in the learning app; the curriculum below is organized by grade.
Pre-K
- Listening to short complete ideas; matching a spoken idea to a picture
- Naming familiar people, animals, places, and things orally
- Recognizing and using observable action words
- Describing familiar objects by size, color, number, and quality
- Building simple spoken sentences in meaningful word order
- Asking versus telling; matching purpose to question mark or period
Kindergarten
- A sentence tells a complete thought; word order makes meaning
- Sentences begin with a capital; sentences end with a mark; the period
- Naming words: people, places, things
- Action words
- Capitalize my own name; capitalize the word I
- The question mark; asking versus telling
- More than one: regular plurals
- Position words: in, on, under, beside, between
Grade 1
- Complete sentences versus incomplete thoughts
- Telling, asking, and exclaiming sentences; matching end marks
- Common nouns; singular and plural with -s
- Proper nouns: people’s names and days of the week
- Verbs: present and simple past
- Adjectives: words that describe
- Pronouns: I, me, my, you, he, she, it, we, they
- Capitalization review; commas in dates and in a series
- Joining words: and, but, or, so, because
- Pointing words a/an/the; position words
Grade 2
- Naming part and telling part: subject and predicate
- Four sentence types, including commands
- Collective nouns; irregular plural nouns
- Proper nouns: months, holidays, places
- Past, present, and future verbs; irregular past tense
- Adjectives and adverbs: telling them apart
- Apostrophes: contractions and singular possessive nouns
- Proofreading a short passage for capitals and end marks
- Friendly letters: commas in greetings and closings
Grade 3
- Abstract nouns; plural possessive nouns
- Pronoun case: subject, object, possessive
- Subject-verb agreement
- Regular and irregular verbs; simple verb tenses
- Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
- Coordinating conjunctions; simple and compound sentences
- Fragments and run-ons
- Quotation marks in dialogue; commas in addresses
- Proofreading a paragraph
Grade 4
- Relative pronouns and relative adverbs
- Progressive verb tenses
- Modal auxiliaries: can, may, must, should
- Order of adjectives
- Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Correcting fragments and run-ons in context
- Commonly confused words: to/too/two, there/their/they’re, your/you’re
- Commas and quotation marks in dialogue and direct quotations
- Editing a multi-paragraph passage
Grade 5
- Conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections as a set
- Perfect verb tenses
- Verb tense consistency; correcting inappropriate shifts
- Correlative conjunctions
- Commas with introductory elements
- Commas with direct address, tag questions, and yes/no
- Titles of works: italics and quotation marks
- Editing a longer passage for punctuation and usage
Grade 6
- Pronoun case in compound constructions
- Intensive pronouns
- Pronoun-antecedent agreement; correcting vague reference
- Phrases and clauses; independent and dependent
- Simple, compound, and complex sentences
- Setting off nonrestrictive and parenthetical elements
- Recognizing variation from standard written English
- Editing for sentence structure and punctuation
Grade 7
- The function of phrases in a sentence
- The function of clauses in a sentence
- Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
- Misplaced and dangling modifiers
- Commas with coordinate adjectives
- Sentence combining for variety
- Concise wording: wordiness and redundancy
- Editing for structure, modifiers, and concision
Grade 8
- Gerunds
- Participles and participial phrases
- Infinitives
- Active and passive voice
- Verb moods, including conditional and subjunctive
- Correcting inappropriate shifts in voice and mood
- Commas, dashes, and ellipses to mark a pause or break
- Cumulative editing across all domains
Choose a starting level that fits what your child is ready to learn.
A look inside · In development
See it. Hear it. Try it.
Short teaching cards keep one idea in view. Diagrams show how a sentence works, and illustrations support younger learners. Listen to recorded teaching or read quietly, move at your own pace, then practice independently. Optional refreshers bring an earlier idea back when it helps.
Then put the idea into practice.
In “Every sentence needs both parts,” a Grade 2 practice activity asks the learner to use all six tiles: Two, young, deer, crossed, the, meadow.
What this practice teaches
A complete sentence tells who or what it is about and what happens. The finished example is “Two young deer crossed the meadow.” The word tiles let the child focus on sentence structure before typing is required.
- Learn. Hear a short explanation and see an example.
- Practice. Work with prompts and useful feedback.
- Check. Apply the skill independently.
- Review. Return to the skill later.
For parents
Keep the next step in view.
One family account keeps each child’s learning separate. The parent dashboard is being prepared alongside the courses so you can see completed lessons, time spent, and skills that need another look.
- Choose learning days and a starting level for each child.
- See lesson progress and plain-language learning explanations.
- Manage weekly and monthly family progress reports.
- Preview lessons before your child begins.
Part of HillLight ELA
One subscription. Your whole family.
$49.99 / year / family
Launch pricing covers every child and every available grade. Phonics and Early Reading, Grammar Quest, and Spelling come first; more ELA modules join the membership as they are released.
When ELA opens, Grammar’s first complete unit at every grade level will be free with a parent account. No credit card is required for that sample, and progress carries into paid access.
Coming soon. The academic courses are in development and are not available to purchase yet.
Notify me when HillLight ELA opens
One launch announcement. Monthly build notes are optional.
See what HillLight ELA includesParent questions
Is Grammar Quest a fit for your child?
Can a child who is not reading yet use it?
The Pre-K and Kindergarten courses are designed around listening, pictures, and spoken ideas. A grown-up should help a young child get started and stay nearby.
Is this a complete English language arts curriculum?
Grammar Quest focuses on grammar and language mechanics. Reading, composition, spelling, and the other ELA modules have their own learning paths. They join HillLight ELA as they are released; they are not all available at launch.
Can my child work independently?
Older learners are intended to work through directions and checks with growing independence. Younger learners will need more parent support. Actual lesson length and support needs will vary by child.
How does the weekly schedule work?
The course is designed for a 36-week year and parent-selected 2–5 learning days a week. Extra days reinforce learning by default; acceleration is a separate parent choice.
Will it work on a phone or tablet?
The browser-based lessons are being built for phones, tablets, and computers, with touch-friendly controls and keyboard access. No student microphone is required.
Can we start today?
Grammar Quest is still in development. Join the launch list for availability updates. You can use optional Bible Memory now; it is free forever and separate from academic ELA.
Also coming first: Explore HillLight Spelling. Phonics and Early Reading is also intended for launch and remains in development — see the roadmap.