Description

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