The Grammar 6 Handbook (in print letters) follows on from The Grammar 5 Handbook. It provides a full year's worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 10+.
It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar or punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 5 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Handbooks
- Prefixes & suffixes, in particular numerical
- Silent letters: bt, te, th
- New spelling patterns/rules: ough
- Schwas -ity & -ety
- More alternatives: they, great, ballet, fete, straight for /ai/
- New parts of speech: for example, countable and uncountable nouns, gerunds and modal verbs and imperatives
- Further punctuation: using semi colons and colons or using a comma after a fronted adverbial
- Developing a greater understanding of sentence structure and learning to recognise indirect objects, subject complements and passive agents
- Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, learning to meaning of idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing
