Sofia's Grammar Dojo

15 minutes a day beats 2 hours on Sunday. That is the biggest secret in East Asian schooling. Little and often, every day, like guitar practice.

Open one topic. Read the cheat code out loud (use the speaker button). Say it in your own words. Then do the three tries.

Get one wrong? Brilliant, that is data. Write it in your Mistakes Book (错题本 — cuò tí běn). Chinese students keep a notebook of only the questions they got wrong, then redo them a week later. It is the single most effective study trick in Asia.

Say it back without looking. After reading a cheat code, close your eyes and say it. If you can't, read it again. That is retrieval practice, and it beats re-reading every time.

Teach it to dad. If you can explain the cheat code to him, you own it. If he looks confused, that's on him.

The game bits: stickers hatch eggs, bosses guard belts, wrong answers come back for a rematch, and Rocky will tell you when it's squish time. Nothing is timed. Nothing is lost for a wrong answer.

Dyslexia tools are at the bottom of the screen. Change the font, make the text bigger, tint the page, switch on the reading ruler, or have the page read to you. Use whatever makes your brain happiest. Nothing here is timed.

Same six habits as the maths dojo. Grammar adds three of its own, and they matter more for a dyslexic learner than for anyone else:

1. A test, not a rule. Every topic here gives a spoken test (say "it is"; answer with he/him; can you add "by zombies"?) rather than a rule to remember. Tests survive under exam pressure; rules don't. Chinese grammar teaching drills exactly this kind of pattern check (句型练习) until it's reflex.
2. Colour-coding and chunking. Nouns blue, verbs red, adjectives green, adverbs orange, everywhere, on paper. Long words split into prefix | root | suffix with a pen. The visual channel does the work the phonological one struggles with.
3. Say it, write it, read it backwards. Speaking the rule while writing the word uses motor and speech memory; reading backwards catches what the eye "fixes".

What "good" looks like: White is the Year 6 SPaG paper in full. Yellow to Green is the correctness and craft that KS3 marks. Blue is the GCSE AO6 marks (16 of 40 on each writing question, both Language papers) and the terminology that earns AO2 in analysis. Black is the error hit-list and the exam-room habits. This dojo overlaps the English one on purpose: that one teaches writing and reading; this one drills the mechanics underneath.

Access arrangements, again: spelling is the hardest part of AO6 for a dyslexic student. A laptop with spellcheck off is still allowed as a normal way of working if school evidences it; extra time helps proofreading most of all. Start that conversation now.