The Grammar 2 Handbook (in print letters) follows on from The Grammar 1 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 6+.
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 Grammar 1 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- New spelling patterns – ei, eigh, ture
- Silent letters – b, c, h, k, w
- Syllables
- Identifying the short vowels
- Spelling rules – consonant doubling and adding suffixes
- Tricky word families
- Revision of elements covered in the Grammar 1 Handbook
- Further adjectives – possessive
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Dictionary work
- Punctuation
- Exclamation marks
- Apostrophes
- Further sentence development
