The Grammar 1 Handbook

The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full year´s worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 5+. It provides: • Practical advice and ideas for teaching • Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher. • Introduces rudiments of grammar. • 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons. • 36 spelling lessons. • Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook. • Photocopiable activities. • Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: • Vowel digraphs • Alternative spellings of vowel sounds. • Plural endings • Short vowels and consonant doubling. • Tricky words • Consonant blends • Nouns – proper/common/plurals. • Personal pronouns •Verbs • Conjugating verbs – present/past/future. • Adjectives • Adverbs • a/an/the – when to use. • Sentences – capital letters, full stops and speech marks. • Parsing – identifying the parts of speech in sentences. • Alphabetical order