The fact is that the grammar teachers’ claim that their students can acquire a language in this way is and has been completely false. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can come from studying a language in this way. We must look at the house to learn the language, not the bricks.
We don’t have to become architects – no human could ever become an architect of language and no human has ever developed a language that works – it is a divine thing to do that because language is deceptively complicated and yet majestically simple and therefore is not within the ken of conscious analysis or human grasping for control at all.
Instead, languages emerge from the collective experience, the collective unconscious mind of countless human beings who take centuries to create them, and which are never really in any final form but keep changing (I doubt if Garnier could have predicted the work of Chagall in his building).
So read the text with the kids; don’t mention the names of the bricks of the family of bricks (stop dividing language into pieces of things) and allow the deeper minds of the students, not their conscious minds, to grasp how everything fits together.