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
