The Grammar 1 Handbook (in print letters) 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 (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- 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
- When to use a/an/the
- Sentences – capital letters, full stops and speech marks
- Parsing – identifying the parts of speech in sentences
- Alphabetical order
