The standard classes in an American classroom for elementary are handwriting,reading/grammar,civics,mathematics,health/science, and history. These are taught all the way through graduation.
Towards the end, civics is replaced by some other choice and the maths and sciences get more detailedlike biology/chemistry or algebra/geometry.
Grammar and Literature are split half of a year on each.In Britain they do not learn English grammar or syntax in primary school.
Children used to be taught grammar in the first few years of secondary school (at about the ages of 11-13), but in the 1960s that requirement was dropped. Teaching children 'correct' grammar was felt to be oppressive and restricting to their 'creativity'.
The idea was that children would learn grammar by exploring and using language itself.Needless to say, this idea didnot really work.
All that happened was that the use of syntax and grammaramong native speakers of English became sloppy and incorrect.
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